Originally Posted by baddog

It was great. I placed it out in the street, lit it and scampered back to my front porch. From behind me I hear this p-f-f-f-t-t and I turn around to see a couple sparks and I immediately think, "great, a dud."

Not a half second later there is this huge bright flash at ground level followed by the above emphasized "boom!"

Car alarms every where went off, dogs barking, you name it.

The neighbors are all going to know who did it . . . except the ones that moved in a month ago. I will need to break them in.