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 +0000 > 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/
