RE: [Texascavers] Re: filling plastic bags with oxygen and acetylene
This guy looks like good potential for a Darwin Award. Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:16:06 + From: lmcn...@austin.rr.com To: texascavers@texascavers.com; gi...@att.net Subject: [Texascavers] Re: filling plastic bags with oxygen and acetylene What a crazy idea to carry these bombs in his car! You need to do it somewhere safe, like perhaps at a caver party on a Texas beach so when it explodes prematurely it takes out only 5 eardrums! (Gill can explain.) Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote: short but relevant story A few years there was a news story of a guy in Denver (I think) who was going to a party across town. Wanting to do something exciting for the party guests he decided that carbide bombs would be good entertainment. He had a cutting torch rig (Oxygen and Acetylene) at his shop so filled up a-half-dozen or so plastic bags with the perfect mixture and stuffed them into the back seat of his small car. He headed across town. Somewhere along the way one (if not all) of the bags ignited, blowing all the windows and doors out of the car and puffing the roof up and the sides out (I saw pictures of it). Aside from ear-drums and some superficial burns I think he was basically unhurt, but the kicker is that he was charged with manufacturing and transporting explosive--both felonies under federal law. And I think he missed the party, too. --Ediger - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
RE: [Texascavers] Re: filling plastic bags with oxygen and acetylene
thats how this chain got started right From: power_lou...@hotmail.com To: texascavers@texascavers.com List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:20:48 -0800 Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Re: filling plastic bags with oxygen and acetylene This guy looks like good potential for a Darwin Award. Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:16:06 + From: lmcn...@austin.rr.com To: texascavers@texascavers.com; gi...@att.net Subject: [Texascavers] Re: filling plastic bags with oxygen and acetylene What a crazy idea to carry these bombs in his car! You need to do it somewhere safe, like perhaps at a caver party on a Texas beach so when it explodes prematurely it takes out only 5 eardrums! (Gill can explain.) Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote: short but relevant story A few years there was a news story of a guy in Denver (I think) who was going to a party across town. Wanting to do something exciting for the party guests he decided that carbide bombs would be good entertainment. He had a cutting torch rig (Oxygen and Acetylene) at his shop so filled up a-half-dozen or so plastic bags with the perfect mixture and stuffed them into the back seat of his small car. He headed across town. Somewhere along the way one (if not all) of the bags ignited, blowing all the windows and doors out of the car and puffing the roof up and the sides out (I saw pictures of it). Aside from ear-drums and some superficial burns I think he was basically unhurt, but the kicker is that he was charged with manufacturing and transporting explosive--both felonies under federal law. And I think he missed the party, too. --Ediger - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/
[Texascavers] Re: filling plastic bags with oxygen and acetylene
What a crazy idea to carry these bombs in his car! You need to do it somewhere safe, like perhaps at a caver party on a Texas beach so when it explodes prematurely it takes out only 5 eardrums! (Gill can explain.) Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote: short but relevant story A few years there was a news story of a guy in Denver (I think) who was going to a party across town. Wanting to do something exciting for the party guests he decided that carbide bombs would be good entertainment. He had a cutting torch rig (Oxygen and Acetylene) at his shop so filled up a-half-dozen or so plastic bags with the perfect mixture and stuffed them into the back seat of his small car. He headed across town. Somewhere along the way one (if not all) of the bags ignited, blowing all the windows and doors out of the car and puffing the roof up and the sides out (I saw pictures of it). Aside from ear-drums and some superficial burns I think he was basically unhurt, but the kicker is that he was charged with manufacturing and transporting explosive--both felonies under federal law. And I think he missed the party, too. --Ediger - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
