Truth be told, my buddy in 8th grade somehow ordered black powder and fuse online. He packed old empty C02 cartridge from the BB gun into a bomb, after firecrackers & M80s became boring. Thankfully we were smart enough to give it a lot of fuse and bury it before blowing it up in the woods. Damn that was a boom. We had friends who use CB radios and heard a few calls on the emergency bands that day.
While camping in the woods, we also tossed spray cans into the fire pit and shot em with bb guns from behind a fallen tree log. A few huge explosions, but mostly long fire streams shooting out of the hole. Dumb stuff but at least we hid and only did that in the summer when brush was fully green.
Sadly not everyone gets past that teenage curiosity or considers reasonable safety. I admit to having not read the article FWIW. Just figured I'd share that I'm glad to moved safely past our middle school antics, that while fun, I wouldn't recommend looking back.