Does an 18 year old qualify as a kid?
In my freshmen year at GT I was stuck on campus for Thanksgiving weekend. We weren't allowed personal cars. I had been toying with building the small hobby rockets. So, one afternoon during the break, me and a couple of roommates (one an AE, became a Honda Jet test pilot) walked over to the nearby vacant soccer field to launch a few rockets. You must remember GT was a Deep south very conservative campus, but not the case with other campuses during Vietnam. So, we launched one, everything went fine. Was prepping another mid field and had all the wires strung out and had the rocket mounted and I saw a Campus security Guard entering from the corner of the field and he was making a beeline for the rocket. He was a bit overweight, and I figured I could get to the launch controller before he could get to the rocket, so it became a race. I wasn't expecting him to draw his gun, like he was going to shoot the rocket??
Anyway, I won the race, perfect launch.
The Security was PO.
What we had not taken into consideration was the College President lived adjacent to the soccer field just behind the tree line out of sight.
Regardless, we had a blast, literally.
