Yeah - That and about a dozen other stunts we'd pull but never on the street I lived on. Those old Italians had stilettos, guns and junk yard dogs and shot first and asked questions later. Besides, ya never shid where ya sleep. The best part of the burning bag trick was that they tracked it into their house. More destructive was the lighting of cherry bombs by 6 to 8 kids and throwing them up on a roof top only to roll into the rain gutters and if you were lucky the gutters crashed to the ground. We only did this to people who gave us a hard time.

One of the best and most dangerous thing we did, since we had no video games to amuse us was a game called "Hollywood stunt man". At the coal mine where they loaded the train cars was a three sided shack with a board seat around the inside perimeter. In the middle was a pot belly stove that the miners who loaded the train cars would use to keep warm in the winter. It was a wooden frame structure covered on all sides and roof by galvanized wavy steel. On Sundays and days when the mine was not in operation we would get a fire started in that stove using somethng called coke which was a by product of coal produced in the coal fields to burn in the steel mills. Coal was put into what were called coke ovens and baked. The process would render an ash colored pourous light weight rock like material that burned hot enough to melt steel.

We would get the fire so hot in that stove that it would turn red and the stove would appear to move in a molten fashion as it neared melting point. The shack was against a hillside. Oil for recyclying was kept in a very large vat about 30 feet from the shack.

Now the stuntman had to ascend to the roof of the shack and dump an entire bucket of oil down the stove pipe exhaust. The galvanised roof offered cover for about 1.5 seconds after pouring the oil down the hatch. The result was a fire ball that rose about 100 feet into the air. We had to jump through the flames to the ground before the fireball did a 180 after shooting out from the underside edge of the steel roof and firebombed the roof. We did this stunt countless times and no one ever was injured - not even a sprain jumping from the roof.

This parody gives a whole new meaning to the term "bag man". Good one, Stan.

a most amusing and unique concept....i was always afraid of fire as a kid so i never tried this out

Wow, Guy! You were one helluva stuntmeister! Funny parody concept here!

Like the song, it's an oldie but goodie. You must have read my parody of a Beatle record I am Sleeping - I Have Been Tee Pee'd.

2Eagle -- haven't read that one but will look it up. Considering the author, I expect a good one.

Thanks, all.

Your inferno-jumping game sounds more like Hollywood Lunatic. OTOH, I do remember thoughlessly participating in lots of kidhood stunts that retrospection titles "improbably survived." :-)

I remember hearing of this old Halloween prank as a kid...never actually tried it, tho...very good read here, Stan

Oh, you're supposed to use paper bags... no wonder it never worked for me. :-) This parody did work you however.

I love reading/singing parodies based upon pranks. I was usually the butt of every prank ever played. Nobody I know has pulled that stunt around me yet, but it seems funny. I'm thinking of writing a parody based upon pranks as well. Great show, Stan! 555.