Exploding poo!

[Buttzilla]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: Amused
Bingo. He was also in an enclosed porta potty. Not just on a toilet in a well ventilated room. Obviously the vents on the porta potty were blocked.

They did their mythbusters in an enclosed acrylic "stall" for lack of a better word and even dropped lit matches in the toilet. It only exploded when they poured gasoline or some other flammable liquid in the toilet. come to think of it, it may have been blackpowder they used since they couldnt get the liquids to ignite.

I suspect on Myth Busters they were doing it with, umm, "fresh" fuel, am I right?

Poo decomposes, just like everything else organic. Methane gas is produced as a byproduct of this decomposition. If it's been there for a day, no problem. But if this was a port-a-potty that had been there for 2, maybe 3 weeks you could have plenty of things decomposing.

man, i was eating!

 

[ATLien247]

Anyone else have a Short Circuit flashback like I did?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: Amused
Bingo. He was also in an enclosed porta potty. Not just on a toilet in a well ventilated room. Obviously the vents on the porta potty were blocked.

They did their mythbusters in an enclosed acrylic "stall" for lack of a better word and even dropped lit matches in the toilet. It only exploded when they poured gasoline or some other flammable liquid in the toilet. come to think of it, it may have been blackpowder they used since they couldnt get the liquids to ignite.

I suspect on Myth Busters they were doing it with, umm, "fresh" fuel, am I right?

Poo decomposes, just like everything else organic. Methane gas is produced as a byproduct of this decomposition. If it's been there for a day, no problem. But if this was a port-a-potty that had been there for 2, maybe 3 weeks you could have plenty of things decomposing.

Bingo again. They should have got a tank of methane and punped it into the enclosure.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: Amused
Bingo. He was also in an enclosed porta potty. Not just on a toilet in a well ventilated room. Obviously the vents on the porta potty were blocked.

They did their mythbusters in an enclosed acrylic "stall" for lack of a better word and even dropped lit matches in the toilet. It only exploded when they poured gasoline or some other flammable liquid in the toilet. come to think of it, it may have been blackpowder they used since they couldnt get the liquids to ignite.

I suspect on Myth Busters they were doing it with, umm, "fresh" fuel, am I right?

Poo decomposes, just like everything else organic. Methane gas is produced as a byproduct of this decomposition. If it's been there for a day, no problem. But if this was a port-a-potty that had been there for 2, maybe 3 weeks you could have plenty of things decomposing.

Bingo again. They should have got a tank of methane and punped it into the enclosure.

agreed!

 

[OulOat]

Bump for the evening crowd

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Descartes
So much for the Myth Busters on Discovery Channel being right.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
This story is just crying out for pics...

Done.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/hjo3/exploding_potty.jpg

 

[Armitage]

LMAO ... I got this image of Wiley Coyote standing there all blackened in the shredded remains of a port-o-potty, holding a match with that "WTF" look on his face.