cunning_plan

Ok, on talking to a distant friend at school i discovered 2 weeks before he had been stopped by the police. in his bag he had a peice of tubing (not metal) and around 300g of sulphur. the police proceded to arrest him and keep him in the sells for 24hrs. he is 15. to me this sounded absoloutly stupid, i was amazed he hadnt called it harsment, they claimed he was intending to make a pipe b**b...with sulphur and a short leangth of drainpipe. he was not charged with anything in the end, what i was wondering is...are the police allowed to put you in the sells for having some fertiliser and some drainpipe in your bag?(needless to say i have made sure he never does make a pipe b**b i still dont kow what he had them with him for but...)

Hi all, im new and have managed to scare and despair people with my lack of knowledge of the dangers of chlorates(now thoroughly enforced). I can do all the basics but was wondering what people wold suggest as good progects to start off with. ive made rockets(just basic propellant tho)and a few fountains but am realy intrested in trying to get more intresting colours and just general easy progects. what advice has anyone go and what chemicals would people suggest to add to the basics?

Ok first off im new on the formums so hi all.

i am quite(6 months) new to pyro but can already see many angry faces to this question...
is potassium chlorate that bad to use as a replacment to potassium nitrate in bp? it seems to work fine for me and is much easyer, it is also a lot cheaper only issues is everywhere seems to say not to use it especialy not with sulphur. ive so far had no problems, it is only sensitive if i hit a pile of it with a hammer and i havent been storing it. as there seems to be loads of conflicting info on this everywhere i decided somone here would most likely no if it is safe to use? i would by perc but i can only find it realy expensive so...also which is a better for use as oxidiser in propellants nitrate or chlorate.
sorry to bring this issue up again i just wanted a realy clear answer.