Seeing this news report
LINK reminded me of the time when I was just a kid, we found an old piano, each key had a lead weight at the far end of each key to return the key up to it's normal position after being pressed, after removing the lead weights we wondered what we could use them for.
Now, as there was not much money about for toys we had to use our ingenuity and imagination more than today's children, anyway, some houses were being knocked down so it only took a moment to find some old pipe and quickly turn it into a gun. I won't go into detail but suffice to say we had a great time firing those lead weights out of the pipe, shooting them right over the houses, luckily the pipe never exploded.
The things we used to get up to....
