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Smitty
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I just remembered an old joke we used to pull in electronics class that I am sure Wayne most likely took part in when he was in school. What we would do was get a small capacitor about 2500 microfarads@24volts and reverse charge it, and just throw it into the pill of other caps that were for inclass use. Well back in the day everyone had their own little work station that was pretty small and when someone got ahold of that cap and hooked it up the right way it didn't take long before BANG, man it would sound like a .22 going off in that small work area. The person it happened to would hurt himself or anyone around trying to get away from it, it was the funniest thing to use back then, seeing some big guy falling backward in a chair, but the worst thing was we drove off alot of people with these pranks, one got so mad he threatened to kill us all just to make sure he got the one that set him up, we all have a big laugh remembering back to those days, and hey I am now taking a few more electronics classes and this gives me some ideas. haha

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