Boy, 14, blows himself up

This is so sad and scary. I have a 14 year old who loves doing those kind of experiments. No more.
 
D3nz said:
This is so sad and scary. I have a 14 year old who loves doing those kind of experiments. No more.
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Wrong reaction. Show him this article and tell him he needs to ask permission from now on. We need to tinker and play to figure out and one kid experimenting is better than a smartphone hooked couch-potato.
I have a 7 year old who paints everything she sees and a 3 year old who wants to climb everything. One gets all the paint suppleis she wants and daddy helps her look up pictures on DeviantArt. And he gets a leg up if he asks nicely.
 
Compton_effect said:
Wrong reaction. Show him this article and tell him he needs to ask permission from now on. We need to tinker and play to figure out and one kid experimenting is better than a smartphone hooked couch-potato.
I have a 7 year old who paints everything she sees and a 3 year old who wants to climb everything. One gets all the paint suppleis she wants and daddy helps her look up pictures on DeviantArt. And he gets a leg up if he asks nicely.
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I'm a mom. We overreact sometimes :o
Definitely going to show him this!
 
As a child used to take the toilet spray's from the house bathrooms and then would go make a fire in the koppie behind our house and throw one in at a time and wait for it to explode. I would take cover a safe distance away though. I got the beating of my life when I had to come clean when my mom confronted me after realizing something is amiss and that the household is going through a crap load of toilet spray.

Poor kid. Very sad.
 
I used to light a match and use my deodorant to work as a flame thrower.
 
Ockie said:
As a child used to take the toilet spray's from the house bathrooms and then would go make a fire in the koppie behind our house and throw one in at a time and wait for it to explode. I would take cover a safe distance away though. I got the beating of my life when I had to come clean when my mom confronted me after realizing something is amiss and that the household is going through a crap load of toilet spray.

Poor kid. Very sad.
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My brother was doing his service at 1 Military Hospital when they brought a injured kid in. He'd taken a can of toilet spray and HELD it over a open flame to see what would happen. :wtf:
The paramedics had brought him to 1 Mil because the injuries were a lot like a grenade going off.
 
This reminds me of that time when my 9 year old cousin and myself (10 at the time) were playing with deodorant and fire. Stuck a box of matches on a piece of paper, lit one and dropped it into the box. The box flared up whilst standing on a wooden desk, so we grabbed the paper and tried to walk to the bathroom. We didn't make it, and the box fell on the carpet. I got the bright idea to extinguish the fire with deodorant. Landed up burning a 30 cm hole in the carpet. I still remember that burn - from the hiding I received.

Years later (coincidentally when I was 14 years old as well), I got hold of potassium nitrate and mixed it in a ratio of 3:2 with sugar. Smelted the stuff together in one of my mom's pots at low heat. Lit the thing in the atrium, coughed my lungs out because of the amount of smoke it produced. Was fun and would do it again. Didn't get a hiding at least because the smoke was gone by the time the folks got home.
 
Ive thrown a can of deodorant into a fire before, never has it "exploded" in such a way that it would be lethal.
 
when i was a kid, myself & a friend, tries our hand at "kitchen explosives".

given our high failure rate, we were accustomed to running quickly.

one day we got it right with pool chemicals & other things from the garage - so successful was our experiment, that the sea point fire department had to send a vehicle to camps bay, we had an overnight stay courtesy of the state & the "servants quarters" at my friend's house required partial reconstruction.
 
Rickster said:
Ive thrown a can of deodorant into a fire before, never has it "exploded" in such a way that it would be lethal.
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We set a lighter on fire once and ran for our lives expecting a massive explosion.
f-all happened, it just melted and burned.

Much disappointment.
 
Compton_effect said:
My brother was doing his service at 1 Military Hospital when they brought a injured kid in. He'd taken a can of toilet spray and HELD it over a open flame to see what would happen. :wtf:
The paramedics had brought him to 1 Mil because the injuries were a lot like a grenade going off.
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There are a few things I used to do as a kind that sends shivers down my spine as a adult when I think how seriously wrong it could have gone and cause serious enjury. My best friend when still in school in Springbok had a amazing gocart thing that his dad built for him. We had a street by our houses that was seriously downhill so we would push it all the way to the top and he would sit and steer and I would be clinging on for dear life at the back. Where this street intersected our street it was a 90 degree turn and we used to manage to gooi that thing into that turn and not once had we rolled it. To this day I dont know how we managed it, but if something happened and we rolled it we both would have been screwed as we had to helmets or protective gear of any kind. Hell, this was in the days that we did not even have to buckle up in cars :-)......or if a car came around that corner. We would have been dead.
 
Electric said:
We set a lighter on fire once and ran for our lives expecting a massive explosion.
f-all happened, it just melted and burned.

Much disappointment.
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This will not always be the case. DO NOT try this again thinking the result will be the same. We were sitting outside in the sun a few years ago drinking and forgot the one lighter outside on the table. We were watching TV when all of a sudden we heard this huge bang. Sounded like a massive cracker. We looked and little pieces of the lighter was everywhere. It was lying in the direct sun and it was bloody hot outside. True story. Dont try what you did again.
 
That's different though.
Build up of pressure due to the gases heating up compared to the top of the lighter melting and releasing all the gas.
 
Electric said:
That's different though.
Build up of pressure due to the gases heating up compared to the top of the lighter melting and releasing all the gas.
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yea
the same friend i mentioned earlier & i, would shove dry ice into 2l coke bottles, add a bit of water & bury them under the sand on camps bay beach - like landmines
 
Didn't see the last word of the thread title at first and thought...farking hell, wish I could've done that at 14 :wtf:

RIP son :(
 
Rickster said:
Ive thrown a can of deodorant into a fire before, never has it "exploded" in such a way that it would be lethal.
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At a biker bash a few years ago some oke threw a bottle of chain lube into the bonfire we had going (it was late so no one around). I heard a big bang and just saw coals shoot up - some of them got stuck in the acacia tree that hung over the fire pit.

Epic night under the coal tree :D
 
At boarding school the guys would spray their arm and hand with deodorant, then light it.

See who can stand it the longest before trying to douse the flames...


And, yes, also did the flamethrower trick with a lighter and deodorant as well...
 
D3nz said:
This is so sad and scary. I have a 14 year old who loves doing those kind of experiments. No more.
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Your kid will just do it behind your back then.
If I had a son who wanted to play with this sort of stuff I'd rather join in and show him how to do it safely.
That way we both get to have fun together and I can make sure he doesn't do anything stupid.
 
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