When I was a teenager my friends and I used to blow stuff up in the back yard somewhat frequently. I shudder to think of the trouble I would have got in by doing a lot of the stuff I did then in recent times. Glad I was born when I was instead of 20 years later.
Absolutely! At one time in my teen years I became such an industrious user of chlorates and perchlorates that the involved chemist told me once that I would have to pick up my order right after delivery, because he deemed it unsafe to keep it in his shop!
Once my mom was looking for paper to fire up her belover artisanal tiled stove. Unfortunately, I had used those newspapers for some mixing procedures. The stove made a sound described to me like 'OOOMPH!' and then smoke started to leak from places where it shouldn't!