This memoir is from my dad, Emmons Adams. I will tell it best as I remember it.
Emmons was sitting in his truck watching a kid at a vacant gas station one day around the 4th of July. There was this empty underground storage tank and this kid, who was probably about 10 or 11 years old, removed the fill spout of the underground tank and dropped an M-80 explosive into the tank.
Dad heard this "KABOOM OOOPHF! !!!
The blacktop pavement over the tank raised about two feet into the air and the kid turned and ran as fast as he could go for a couple of blocks --- without even looking back, mind you! Without looking back!! Probably scared as a scare crow -- eyes probably as big as saucers!!
No one got killed or hurt is the amazing thing.
Dad chuckled every time he told that story. I believe God was looking over this child that day, because he is a very lucky child / man to live through this ordeal.
My dad had a special charisma and charm to expedite a story in that Nebraska drawl to make a story sound so funny!
SUBMITTED BY DALLAS ADAMS
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