He would ignite and throw flash paper at napping students, literally waking them with a fireball bursting a foot from their face.
He once told us about how he had a bullet wound from that one time he was on a fishing crew somewhere near Indonesia and got shot at (and returned fire) by a rival fishing ship.
Oh, and he regularly carried a whip, and would use it to turn on and off the main room lights when he was bored, by whip cracking the switch from 12 ft away.