We are planning on having a small roman candle fight during our fourth of july party (mostly family and a few friends). I want to make this as safe as possible despite the dangers involved. We did this as kids and no one ever got serious injured and it was a blast.

My thinking:
Cheap swim goggles
Gardening gloves
Maybe wetting the kids prior to fight or having them do it with the sprinklers on

Thoughts or shared experiences?

Next thread title: CPS took my kids!

Get ready to get your ass sued!

Somewhere out there, thousands of lawyers just got rock hard and they have no idea why.

it's not PC to call them roman candles anymore.

FRC coveralls

Randomly choose some children and hose them down with lighter fluid.

Don't have it in a field of dry, tall grass.

Aero95 said:

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Don't have it in a field of dry, tall grass.

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Thanks for the serious reply. Will add mowing to the list.

Leave a couple of dilapidated boats lying around so they can be used as shields

Mortar fight. Go big or go home.

Remember to pick up the lawn darts before the fireworks war starts.

I'd tell anyone wanting to interact in this should avoid hairspray that day, maybe avoid flammable clothes (good luck with that, pedo!), and have some wet blankets nearby in case someone is lit on fire.

This idea, it is turrble.

Oh I'm sure some of the parents will be all the wet blankets we need

If any of the kids get burned, rub some butter on it. It's very soothing.

In life, one should look back upon all the stupid things you did and realize you are lucky to come out un-maimed. If you are smart, you teach your children to avoid these types of activities. If you are stupid, which is what you appear to be, you run the risk of having a child or relative with one eye. But hey, you can call him or her the Pirate.

You think they would burn through the swim goggles? They are rounded too so it would probably deflect before lodging in the lens.

Ignac said:

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In life, one should look back upon all the stupid things you did and realize you are lucky to come out un-maimed. If you are smart, you teach your children to avoid these types of activities. If you are stupid, which is what you appear to be, you run the risk of having a child or relative with one eye. But hey, you can call him or her the Pirate.

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Bayside is already teaching his kids how fun it is to piss on your prom date (or be pissed on).

You want to make it safe? Why even bother having it then? Kids these days are poons.

My friends and I used to have fireworks wars for years.

Roman candles, bottle rockets, jumping jacks. We were throwing everything at each other. It's a miracle no one ever got more than singed fingertips (which everyone got). Worst thing that ever happened was a jumping jack made it into my jacket pocket....which is where all my stash was. I've never taken a jacket off so fast before in my life. Not a mark on me, though.

Of course, this was when I was a teenager and into college, when I guess we should have known better. I would recommend safety goggles, long sleeved shirts and jeans. Maybe ballcaps be worn to prevent anyone's hair from catching fire.

Oh, and wait until it's dark obviously.

Back in my day, we had bottle rocket wars. The goal was to make someone cry.

Kids these day.

Do it in an area without cars/boats being stored. Got a nice long burn mark down my old boat during one of these wars. And if you wanna take it to the next level, mid fight pull out a Saturn missile 300 and watch everyone s*** themselves

shafter said:

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Back in my day, we had bottle rocket wars. The goal was to make someone cry.

Kids these day.

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Yep. Used wrapping paper tubes with duct tape on one end as the rocket launcher. Toilet paper roll taped to the side to aim (still not sure how I didn't burn my eye aiming as the bottle rocket flew out). Roman candles were reserved for closer combat when the other team advanced. Hand to hand combat after that...

We used to save live Christmas trees from around town and then shoot them with rockets. Those things were basically made of rocket fuel.

Bayside Tiger Ag said:

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You think they would burn through the swim goggles? They are rounded too so it would probably deflect before lodging in the lens.

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You re making a lot of assumptions such as them never taking them off during battle. It's okay. We need people like you to set examples for the rest of us.

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You think they would burn through the swim goggles?

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gigemags-99 said:

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shafter said:

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Back in my day, we had bottle rocket wars. The goal was to make someone cry.

Kids these day.

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Yep. Used wrapping paper tubes with duct tape on one end as the rocket launcher. Toilet paper roll taped to the side to aim (still not sure how I didn't burn my eye aiming as the bottle rocket flew out). Roman candles were reserved for closer combat when the other team advanced. Hand to hand combat after that...

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We took used Roman candles and used them as our bottle rocket launchers.

Good times.

Jack Cheese said:

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Bayside is already teaching his kids how fun it is to piss on your prom date (or be pissed on).

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Some people learn from books. Some from watching others. And some have to piss on the electric fence for themselves.

you don't seem very smart but that's ok because

the world needs ditchdiggers, too

just make sure you're recording

In my day we had REAL wars with COMMUNISTS and we killed them before they could kill us. It was awesome and we built VFW buildings to gather in and remember the good times over cold brews.

We used to have rock fights as kids. Only rules were no intentionally targeting the head or groin, and nothing bigger than a golf ball. If you got dinged because you didn't dodge or catch the incoming rocks, that was on you.

triggerhappy said:

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And if you wanna take it to the next level, mid fight pull out a Saturn missile 300 and watch everyone s*** themselves

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This cracked me up more than anything else in this thread. I've had a Saturn missle battery flat out explode in one whack before. Good times.

MouthBQ98 said:

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We used to have rock fights as kids. Only rules were no intentionally targeting the head or groin, and nothing bigger than a golf ball. If you got dinged because you didn't dodge or catch the incoming rocks, that was on you.

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In West Texas we'd have dirt clod fights. Technically these were rock-free but sometimes there would be a hidden surprise in there.