Boy, 14, blows himself up

[b_crazy]

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.

Yeah me too. My brother and I were doing the same when the can he had thrown into the fire rolled off the top at the moment I was supposed to explode. What to do next? Of course... use a meter-long stick to poke the swollen can back onto the fire. It exploded almost instantly!

 

[Electric]

Still. You never know.

Well you actually do lol.
It's a little something called science.

 

[Ockie]

Well you actually do lol.
It's a little something called science.

Do what you want.

 

[Not_original]

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

Done that too when we had our final appy braai . Needless to say , we had to restart the fire

 

[Electric]

Do what you want.

I was joking Ockie, I'm not going to do anything silly.

 

[Ockie]

I was joking Ockie, I'm not going to do anything silly.

ok

 

[Nerfherder]

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.

Also the amount of gas left in the lighter

 

[Compton_effect]

Sigh. I wish age made it better. We once had a great Guy Fawkes night next to the Vaal. Lost of fireworks, a straw effigy on a raft.
When we started setting up one of the fireworks fell and the stick broke off. A decent beer can sized rocket, we decided not to waste it and still shoot it off. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?
One guy did all the lighting, while we stood a safe distance away. Everything went great, until he lit the broken one. Instead of shooting up in the air, it came barreling in our direction at groin height. :wtf: Luckily everyone could jump out of the way and it screamed past, going off over the river in front of a booze cruise filled with very surprised partygoers.
I still get chills thinking of that thing flying towards me.

 

[Skrilla]

RIP, Boy, 14.

 

[themba990]

When i saw the thread this morning i thought it said Boy 14 blows himself... so now when I see it's at four pages I start wondering why a 14 year old contortionist would attract so much attention. Yes, the internets have ruined me.