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My neighbour in the house behind me was making and storing illegal commercial type fireworks. It blew up in the middle of the night destroying all the glass and lights in our street. Fortunately it never caused any serious structural damage but we've since found out that only a few of them did explode the others for some reason didn't, however we were all evacuated by the bomb squad for about 12 - 14 hours whilst they sorted it out.

The other thing that amazed me was that no one was hurt except for the teenage son of the man in question who had to be hospitalised for a while, I don't know the extent of his injuries but the father was trying to turn away offers of help from his neighbours and later the emergancy services whilst his son was injured.

Heh it was a bit of a shock really even though I was in the house on the side furthest away from him, actually in game at the time. The explosion blew me off my chair and into the wall.