The power to email should be taken from *some* people.

alfa147x

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Please share this info with your family and friends. I normally don't 'mass email' but found this important enough to share with all of you.

Warning about picking up trash

Kids are putting Drano, tin foil, and a little water in soda
bottles and capping it up - leaving it on lawns.

When you go to pick up the trash,and the bottle is shaken just a little - in about 30 seconds or less it builds up a gas and explodes with enough force to remove some of your extremities. The liquid that comes out is boiling hot as well.

Don't pick up any plastic bottles that may be lying in your yards or in
the gutter, etc. Pay attention to this:
1. a plastic bottle with a cap.
2. a little Drano.
3. a little water.
4. a small piece of foil.
5. Disturb it by moving it; and BOOM!! No fingers left and other serious effects to your face, eyes, etc.

People are finding these "bombs" in mailboxes and in their yards, just waiting for you to pick it up intending to put it in the trash. But, you'll never make it!!! It takes about 30 seconds to blow after you move the thing.

See "SNOPES" below....it's true. There is a video with the SNOPES link - please click on it and watch.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp

I checked "Truth or Fiction" and "they" agree this is TRUTH!!! So be warned and beware.

:rolleyes:
 

Anubis

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TBH i remember doing that 10+ years ago. and i thought they changed the formula of some of those products so it didn't happen anymore.

also Dry ice + water is easier if you simply want to blow things up
 

sswingle

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At least snopes actually said it was true. I got one once where it said they checked snopes but did not provide a link. Of course snopes said it was false.
 

geno

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At least snopes actually said it was true. I got one once where it said they checked snopes but did not provide a link. Of course snopes said it was false.

I love seeing someone passing one of those around. "You can even check with Snopes, it's true!!" they write that hoping no one will check, only to find out it's confirmed false :D
 

Vette73

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Thats so weak.

To do it even better get...

2l bottle (must be dry inside)
Chlorine (look for shockit pool chemicals at wal-mart/k-mart)
Brake fluid


Add 4 tablespoons of dry chlorine (shockit) to 2l bottle. Add 3 tablespoons brake fluid and screw cap on and RUN!!!! The reaction releases the oxygen from the chlorine and also makes heat. The oxygen expands and the heat ignites it.
 

alfa147x

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Ah found out who it was! She's this lady that works in a partner department down the hall a bit... She's one crazy person :D

The reason it didn't go to junk is because she sent it out in batches of 4 - 5 people, that bitch!
 

olds

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Thats so weak.

To do it even better get...

2l bottle (must be dry inside)
Chlorine (look for shockit pool chemicals at wal-mart/k-mart)
Brake fluid


Add 4 tablespoons of dry chlorine (shockit) to 2l bottle. Add 3 tablespoons brake fluid and screw cap on and RUN!!!! The reaction releases the oxygen from the chlorine and also makes heat. The oxygen expands and the heat ignites it.
When I was training to become a hazardous materials specialist, the local fire dept. gave us a demonstration of this. But, they put the ingredients in an oily rag. They said that if you could get the ingredients just right that it would burn itself up with no trace for investigators. I doubt that.
 

DrPizza

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I did this a few times with vinegar & baking soda in a 2 liter bottle. I thought it was neat to throw the bottles & watch them burst. One day, one of the bottles landed on the cap, the cap shattered, the bottle came flying back at me, passing just over my shoulder. Had that 2 liter bottle hit me in the face, I'd have been heading to the hospital, with likely scarring & potentially other permanent damage.

To any idiot out there thinking to themselves "a plastic 2 liter bottle couldn't hurt you that badly" - in my physics class, we make rockets out of 2-liter bottles. They're filled about 1/3 to 1/2 way with water & pressurized to 100psi with air. 100psi isn't anywhere near enough to make them burst - remember, these ones that burst must be at a much higher pressure.

While adjusting my pressure regulator during a studyhall in my classroom, I pumped up one of the 2-liter bottles with just air, at 100psi. I fired it under a lab bench (of course a 2 liter bottle can damage a tile ceiling). What I didn't expect: that 2 liter bottle went through the sheet of plywood for the book cubby under the bench, sending splinters of wood everywhere.

That's right, an empty (except for air) 2 liter bottle - shot through a piece of plywood. It seems implied that the OP doubts claims of how dangerous these things can be.