A friend and I want to make a small amount of nitroglycerin in chemistry class in HS. The teacher was all for it, but it got bumped all the way to the superintendent who shot it down.
Boo.
Anything fun in life is illegal, immoral, fattening, or dangerous.
In high school chemistry, I once superheated magnesium in a covered crucible and then blew on. That was fun.
All chemists are pyros, by definition and by requirement.