Art Bell

[Robert]

Ha. I've always been intrigued by the stories and reports about some secret, invitation only "blowing sh*t up" festival in the desert that Bob Lazar talked about and Knapp reported on a while back (not sure if still goes on but we would never know about it, I guess.) Also enjoy watching (never been or did) these folks who have competitions, or just for fun, send up ANVILS into the sky via black powder.

Must be Desert Blast.  I've been to pyro club shoots, but not that one.

I'm relocating soon to the country partly so I can resume the fireworking hobby I've neglected lately, because it's been too "hot" here in the Bronx lately for those who are disfavored, like my block.

[K_Dubb]

Ha, I need to seek that out. I had a Wiley, but survived, moment as a kid with some buddies. Imagine the thought process at this time....hey air-rifle CO2 cartridge spent, hey this looks pretty solid, hey there is a hole there, why not fill it with powder from a part of a firework, and use a green fuse so have some time to get away? That friggin thing became, basically, a random missile that nailed through a shed wall and then carroomed off trees and, luckily, didn't hit anyone. I'm, actually, amazed I'm alive considering now, older, considering stuff for fun we did (even not as kid but in college etc) and how kids these days are so protected and, even me, caution them on stuff. But different world these days.

Same thing.  Cousin and I made a simple black-powder cannon out of a length of pipe with a touch-hole drilled through the end cap.  Blew a beautiful, perfectly circular hole through both walls of my uncle's shed which is still there.  Aimed our version of grapeshot at the woods to blow the leaves off the trees.  Fabricated an explosive projectile from more pipe with the same fuse running through the charge in the barrel and fired it straight up.  Gave up on it, turned to go inside, when there was a boom from somewhere way up in the air.  Amazed we didn't die from a burst barrel.

[albrecht]

Same thing.  Cousin and I made a simple black-powder cannon out of a length of pipe with a touch-hole drilled through the end cap.  Blew a beautiful, perfectly circular hole through both walls of my uncle's shed which is still there.  Aimed our version of grapeshot at the woods to blow the leaves off the trees.  Fabricated an explosive projectile from more pipe with the same fuse running through the charge in the barrel and fired it straight up.  Gave up on it, turned to go inside, when there was a boom from somewhere way up in the air.  Amazed we didn't die from a burst barrel.

Ha. Glad that I and my friends and brothers weren't the only pyro kids. I remember being worried when some relatives were like "wtf" during hunting season because we had decided to take 'dismantle' after 'borrowing' shells and bullets from the garage for use in our modified model rockets and fireworks. Crazy thing was when he had some of the 'good ones' we actually used to set them off at the local elementary school (because stable tarmac) and clear field and never had issues when shit was going crazy (like rockets overloaded and so screw-balling and exploding.) These days....terrorism charge or worse!

[GravitySucks]

Ha, I need to seek that out. I had a Wiley, but survived, moment as a kid with some buddies. Imagine the thought process at this time....hey air-rifle CO2 cartridge spent, hey this looks pretty solid, hey there is a hole there, why not fill it with powder from a part of a firework, and use a green fuse so have some time to get away? That friggin thing became, basically, a random missile that nailed through a shed wall and then carroomed off trees and, luckily, didn't hit anyone. I'm, actually, amazed I'm alive considering now, older, considering stuff for fun we did (even not as kid but in college etc) and how kids these days are so protected and, even me, caution them on stuff. But different world these days.

Biggest boom I made was by filling up a one a day vitamin bottle with the powder of about two bricks of black cat fireworks. I took an instamatic flashcube (google it if you are too young) and broke it apart to get the filaments and had that attached to two small bell wires. Placed that in the center of the bottle and filled the powder around it. Put the stopper top in and extended the wires about 50'. Then wrapped the whole bottle up with a whole roll of the 70's equivalent of duct tape.  Buried it on the other side of a big pine tree and used one of this old lantern batteries to set it off. Thought it was a failure at first. Nothing happened for like two minutes. I guess there wasn't enough oxygen in the bottle to get the filaments to burn the powder. Good thing I didn't check it. When it blew, it carved a hole about 3 feet across and about 18" deep. Didn't kill the pine tree. But since the pine tree was about 10' from our trailer it sure scared the crap out of my father. I had asked him to come out and watch. He said he was watching TV.

He never let me do that again.

[K_Dubb]

Ha. Glad that I and my friends and brothers weren't the only pyro kids. I remember being worried when some relatives were like "wtf" during hunting season because we had decided to take 'dismantle' after 'borrowing' shells and bullets from the garage for use in our modified model rockets and fireworks. Crazy thing was when he had some of the 'good ones' we actually used to set them off at the local elementary school (because stable tarmac) and clear field and never had issues when shit was going crazy (like rockets overloaded and so screw-balling and exploding.) These days....terrorism charge or worse!

I know!  Even back then, buying the powder the guy looked at us all squinty and asked us what we were going to use it for.  We were dumb and tongue-tied, but another guy behind the counter (God bless him, probably thinking back to his youth) said "model cannons use that stuff" and we quickly agreed hahaha

I have a little .45-caliber model naval cannon that makes a nice little bang, but that pipe gun we made sounded like something out of the Revolutionary War.

[albrecht]

Biggest boom I made was by filling up a one a day vitamin bottle with the powder of about two bricks of black cat fireworks. I took an instamatic flashcube (google it if you are too young) and broke it apart to get the filaments and had that attached to two small bell wires. Placed that in the center of the bottle and filled the powder around it. Put the stopper top in and extended the wires about 50'. Then wrapped the whole bottle up with a whole roll of the 70's equivalent of duct tape.  Buried it on the other side of a big pine tree and used one of this old lantern batteries to set it off. Thought it was a failure at first. Nothing happened for like two minutes. I guess there wasn't enough oxygen in the bottle to get the filaments to burn the powder. Good thing I didn't check it. When it blew, it carved a hole about 3 feet across and about 18" deep. Didn't kill the pine tree. But since the pine tree was about 10' from our trailer it sure scared the crap out of my father. I had asked him to come out and watch. He said he was watching TV.

He never let me do that again.

I think I posted this before in some fashion but still always amazed me.
My best was intended but not planned/cool. It was, simply, throwing a can of starter fluid (ether) into a bonfire pit we had going. Party was over and only a few of us still around and fixing to leave and one friends car would never start and he had a can in the back, why not? Thing was amazing. Scale: pit was dug into ground and in a strip for telephone lines in the woods, so trees cut back but accessible to us. Nobody else around then. Thrown in. Wait a bit and we run far away. A few seconds or maybe a minute and nothing. We start to approach, reluctantly. We hear a hiss, not loud but noticabe. But no fire or explosion. Then a second or so later there is a fire ball that the MIDDLE was the telephone and electric line from ground to above and looked like a fire within fire, licking flames inside itself. A complete circle from ground (pit) to above lines on fire.) That went on for several seconds and then...gone. Awesome. Never seen anything like it except some IMAX about Red Adair blowing up fires. But even then the symmetry and odd timing was so weird. Like the gas expanded into a perfect globe and then all lit on fire at once.

[Uncle Duke]

Same thing.  Cousin and I made a simple black-powder cannon out of a length of pipe with a touch-hole drilled through the end cap.  Blew a beautiful, perfectly circular hole through both walls of my uncle's shed which is still there.  Aimed our version of grapeshot at the woods to blow the leaves off the trees.  Fabricated an explosive projectile from more pipe with the same fuse running through the charge in the barrel and fired it straight up.  Gave up on it, turned to go inside, when there was a boom from somewhere way up in the air.  Amazed we didn't die from a burst barrel.

I grew up in farm country in rural Ohio.  When I was probably 12-13 yrs old, a group of us decided to see if could get the locally legendary, massive carp that was said to reside in a farm pond on the property of one of my friends.  I don't remember whose idea it was, but after much discussion we decided to fill a mayo jar half full with Daisy BBs, drop in a lit M80, screw on the lid, and throw it into the pond.  Remarkably we did this without getting killed, the jar sank but nothing happened for at least 10-15 seconds.  About the time we moved forward to look into the pond, the M-80 detonated.  The result was similar to the climactic depth charge scene from "The Enemy Below", one mammoth gurgling bubble followed by a spray of stinky pond water.  A few fish floated to the top, but not our primary target.  The next morning the guy on whose farm the pond was located called each of us and told us to get there as quick as we could.  There on the pond bank was a huge, but very dead carp.  We figure he succumbed to internal and/or shrapnel injuries at some point after all went home the previous evening.

[albrecht]

I grew up in farm country in rural Ohio.  When I was probably 12-13 yrs old, a group of us decided to see if could get the locally legendary, massive carp that was said to reside in a farm pond on the property of one of my friends.  I don't remember whose idea it was, but after much discussion we decided to fill a mayo jar half full with Daisy BBs, drop in a lit M80, screw on the lid, and throw it into the pond.  Remarkably we did this without getting killed, the jar sank but nothing happened for at least 10-15 seconds.  About the time we moved forward to look into the pond, the M-80 detonated.  The result was similar to the climactic depth charge scene from "The Enemy Below", one huge gurgling bubble followed by a spray of stinky pond water.  A few fish floated to the top, but not our primary target.  The next morning the guy on whose farm the pond was located called each of us and told us to get there as quick as we could.  There on the pond bank was a huge, but very dead carp.  We figure he succumbed to internal and/or shrapnel injuries at some point after all went home the previous evening.

Awesome! My brother and I had a similar situation/plan for a carp (and also a huge cotton-mouth that, so us kids said, lived under this rock.) But didn't do as good as you but noticed that bottle rockets and M-80s (when tied to a rock) would explode underwater. So did so. One time I was underwater during said attempt (I thank God no hearing loss because it is true...holy shit loud.) We later went back up, quite a hike but as kids one has energy and brought back a .22 and shot the hell out of a common carp, to no avail, except alerting a local busy-body neighbor who informed our parents.

[K_Dubb]

I grew up in farm country in rural Ohio.  When I was probably 12-13 yrs old, a group of us decided to see if could get the locally legendary, massive carp that was said to reside in a farm pond on the property of one of my friends.  I don't remember whose idea it was, but after much discussion we decided to fill a mayo jar half full with Daisy BBs, drop in a lit M80, screw on the lid, and throw it into the pond.  Remarkably we did this without getting killed, the jar sank but nothing happened for at least 10-15 seconds.  About the time we moved forward to look into the pond, the M-80 detonated.  The result was similar to the climactic depth charge scene from "The Enemy Below", one mammoth gurgling bubble followed by a spray of stinky pond water.  A few fish floated to the top, but not our primary target.  The next morning the guy on whose farm the pond was located called each of us and told us to get there as quick as we could.  There on the pond bank was a huge, but very dead carp.  We figure he succumbed to internal and/or shrapnel injuries at some point after all went home the previous evening.

Ingenious, and lucky!  Would love to see underwater slo-mo footage of a recreation of your feat.

[Uncle Duke]

Ingenious, and lucky!  Would love to see underwater slo-mo footage of a recreation of your feat.

For years I had a beautifully calligraphed placad I bought at a flea market on the wall in my office at work.  The sign said, "God protects fools and Irishmen".  Whenever anyone asked about the sign, I told the depth charged carp story. I figured I got a two for one on that deal.

[Daggit]

I do sometimes wonder if Art has ever listened to a whole show of Midnight in the D with Heather Wade. It's just god awful. What a way to piss your legacy away.

[Value Of Pi]

I do sometimes wonder if Art has ever listened to a whole show of Midnight in the D with Heather Wade. It's just god awful. What a way to piss your legacy away.

You should have posted this idea for rekcuf before before he sentenced Art to time served. He should be forced to listen to an entire Heather MITD show. The punishment would fit the crime.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

man.. i have not even had art bell cross my mind for along time before today.
Having him quit again enraged me.
He did not even try to do anything about the stalker or whatever he was.
I think that the government got sick of having him keep piping up back on the air.
Man like if art had asked fans to show up and protect his house people would have done it.
Art did not even need to go on the radio..
If art started a youtube and posted small little interviews randomly on there that would go insane with views.

what do i know right.
I given up on caring really about what art bell does anyways..
I known of him 80% of my life and all he has done is disappoint me.
Funny thing is that it's been made clear to me that he knows of me too and that he dislikes me..
Kind of weird to think about..
George Noory knows who i am and dislikes me too.. But that dude can go fuck himself..

I wish i never knew who art bell was because its been nothing but bullshit.

I wasted money and time on him for way too long.

Whatever.
Bye

It's the stalker ! ! !            J/K   

Welcome to BellGab. Post often.   

[Value Of Pi]

It's the stalker ! ! !            J/K   

Welcome to BellGab. Post often.   

Well, don't just stand there. Grab the butterfly net, rustle up a posse, ask him to take a selfie or something.

[Value Of Pi]

Oh.. I will not be here long.. I am one of the dambed.. as soon as MV wakes up and has his morning coffee and checks the forum i will be 404ed and banned..

He will delete my posts and ban me..

Don't you worry. You could be on here promoting mass murder and MV wouldn't bother you at all. But if you double post, that could be a real problem. Don't double post and you should be fine.

[PKaiser]

Didn't kill the pine tree. But since the pine tree was about 10' from our trailer it sure scared the crap out of my father. I had asked him to come out and watch. He said he was watching TV.

He never let me do that again.

Uh, I'm confused.  In the 1970s weren't you, like, in your 40s?  Late 30s?

[PKaiser]

Yeah.. na.. Just wait and watch.. Lol.. I don't really care anyways.
Came to drop my 2 cents here and on some other thread..

I have over irons in the fire anyways so i don't think about this place much anyways.

Art bell is just too upsetting of a roller-coaster for me.

Who the fuck are you?

[SredniVashtar]

Who the fuck are you?

A dentally-challenged child molester. He also used to host a game show over here all about rare words called 'Call My Bluff'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoiKoIZ7wwo

[coaster]

Who the fuck are you?

he raped and impregnated a 13 year old kid. He's also mentally unstable. Best just to ignore him. Not worth your time.

[Roswells, Art]

Here's the original news report.

https://youtu.be/xBgThvB_IDQ

Haha, yeah that's it. Hilarious.

[Roswells, Art]

he raped and impregnated a 13 year old kid. He's also mentally unstable. Best just to ignore him. Not worth your time.

He was also so proud of it he used her picture as an avatar until MV banned him.

[PKaiser]

He was also so proud of it he used her picture as an avatar until MV banned him.

You guys are serious, aren't you?

[ShayP]

You guys are serious, aren't you?

Unfortunately, yes.  What they say is true.

[coaster]

Unfortunately, yes. 

^
i doubt the guy is even allowed internet access. thats why i immediately block him whenever he rears his fat, ugly, toothless head. hes just a complete waste of air.

[JesusJuice]

Wait! What the fuck is going on?

[norland2424]

Wait! What the fuck is going on?

Some pedo that was banned from bellgab came back, so MV banned his new account

[Kitty]

I do sometimes wonder if Art has ever listened to a whole show of Midnight in the D with Heather Wade. It's just god awful. What a way to piss your legacy away.

MAYBE, in some twisted way- that's why. He wanted to go with that.

[PetePistolwhip]

Isn't that the one that had whale pieces landing on cars and people haha

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ndaXQeRPO0g

[MV/Liberace!]

He was also so proud of it he used her picture as an avatar until MV banned him.

i don't recall him using it as an avatar.  i thought he simply attached her picture to a post, but i could be wrong.  i keep meaning to contact the augusta, maine police to ask if he violated the law by doing this.  i have a difficult time believing it wasn't illegal.

http://sor.informe.org/cgi-bin/sor/step3.pl?id=4683

[norland2424]

i don't recall him using it as an avatar.  i thought he simply attached her picture to a post, but i could be wrong.  i keep meaning to contact the augusta, maine police to ask if he violated the law by doing this.  i have a difficult time believing it wasn't illegal.

http://sor.informe.org/cgi-bin/sor/step3.pl?id=4683

you should let them know about his youtube vids , or him taking pictures of random women when they arent looking, its all up on his flkr account