Drano Bombs----PLEASE READ

[tcw]

Kids are putting Drano, tin foil, and a little water in plastic drink bottles and capping it up - leaving it on lawns, in mail boxes, in gardens, on driveways etc. just waiting for you to pick it up intending to put it in the rubbish, but you'll never make it!!!

If the bottle is picked up, and the bottle is shaken even just a little - in about 30 seconds or less it builds up enough gas which then 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. A plastic bottle with a cap. A little Drano. A little water. A small piece of foil. Disturb it by moving it; and BOOM!! No fingers left and other serious effects to your face, eyes, etc.

Please ensure that everyone that may not have email access are also informed of this and please click on the Snopes link for more information as to what to watch for.

For verification and more information, click on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FudJOtHg6c4

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

[xelnaga]

This was popular in the dorms my freshman year of college. Because there are so many variables, there is no way to accurately gauge the amount of time for the reaction to occur, making it especially dangerous. I remember one instance where the half-brains put a larger version of one of these in the bathroom. They had expected it to go off within minutes, but it did not. Afraid of going back to get it they just let it be. 30 minutes later there was a huge boom. It was so powerful that it separated the stall doors from their housing.

[langston07]

Uh I think you should know that its not a "little" tinfoil. You need to make like a hundred tiny balls of it and put it in a Gatorade bottle....damn when I was in high-school it was just for fun in the yard but now stupid kids are leaving them for people to pick up. BAD IDEA. .cops treat it as a bomb and I know two guys who were arrested for throwing it into a ex girlfriend of one of them houses.....just don't do it

[tcw]

This should be classified as a bomb...and a Federal Offense. With all the Stupid criminal charges they have today...this one should be Federal. I'm sure if you left a M-80...with the intentions of blowing someone's hand up...i'm pretty sure that is a Federal Crime. Bomb squad called, etc.

I just emailed my Bud who's a Big shot at SWAT in my area....lets see what he says.

[xelnaga]

This should be classified as a bomb...and a Federal Offense. With all the Stupid criminal charges they have today...this one should be Federal. I'm sure if you left a M-80...with the intentions of blowing someone's hand up...i'm pretty sure that is a Federal Crime. Bomb squad called, etc.

I just emailed my Bud who's the head of SWAT in my area....lets see what he says.

Absolutely agree. This is more dangerous than an explosive with a fuse.

[JimmySidewalk]

Only a fvcking idiot would play around with such things, regardless that he is in college or highschool or full grown man.
They should be beaten and then put in a cell with Bubba to pump them dry.
Its all fun and games until someone gets his hands blown off or gets killed. Then come the tears "it was just a prank, please dont send me in a cell with Bubba"

[gixxerboy1]

Only a fvcking idiot would play around with such things, regardless that he is in college or highschool or full grown man.
They should be beaten and then put in a cell with Bubba to pump them dry.
Its all fun and games until someone gets his hands blown off or gets killed. Then come the tears "it was just a prank, please dont send me in a cell with Bubba"

if someone did that to my family they would never make it to jail

[songdog]

if someone did that to my family they would never make it to jail

I am with you on that.

[Honkey_Kong]

This shit was in the Anarchist Cookbook back in the early 90's.

[JimmySidewalk]

if someone did that to my family they would never make it to jail

Didnt want to sound too dramatic, but i totally feel the same way.

[V-ROID]

Drano bombs don't kill people. People do. These douchebags are giving drano bombs a bad wrap! With years of training and proper research bombs can be loads of fun.

[cherrydrpepper]

Maybe a moderator should edit out the word tin foil and replace it with "another household item". Im 30 years old and have never heard of the ingredients for this bomb so its safe to say others might not have either.

[V-ROID]

What about a cherrydrpepper and mentos bomb?

[cherrydrpepper]

What about a cherrydrpepper and mentos bomb?

haha i love how you tied that into the thread

[cherrydrpepper]

I found a video of razr playing with fireworks

[V-ROID]

Yah it is terrible if people are actually doing that to people. No punishment would be too harsh. Most people hear the word "BOMB" and freak out because they are uneducated in the exact same way that most people hear the word "STEROIDS " and freak out. What should the punishment be for someone who waits for old ladies to check the mail and then injects them with a couple g's of deca ? Again, these losers doing this need to stop breathing.

[tcw]

Only a fvcking idiot would play around with such things, regardless that he is in college or highschool or full grown man.
They should be beaten and then put in a cell with Bubba to pump them dry.
Its all fun and games until someone gets his hands blown off or gets killed. Then come the tears "it was just a prank, please dont send me in a cell with Bubba"

Just pass it on to your family and friends---hate to think of someone i know getting their "face burned up" because "Peter the Punk Pyro" needs to get his kicks for the week.

I did some "crazy shit" when i was a kid...but nothin like this (Totally irresponsible...)

And with the all Dumb-arse Parents walking around..i wouldn't be surprised if this activity picks up.

[lovbyts]

I made something similar back in the late 80s at work but it was 100% accidental. We had a rather big party at work (thanksgiving I think) and had quite a bit of dry ice. I took an empty 2L pop bottle with a little water in it (1/8 full) and put a few pieces of dry ice in it with the lid on very loosely. I expected it to blow the lid off, just shooting it into the air. After several minute and the bottle swelling up I started thinking OMG now what am I going to do. I showed a fried and we decided to just put it under one of the large steel tables and figured after a while the gas would slowly escape and de pressurize. 10+ minutes later it sounded like a stick of dynamite went off in the warehouse. Luckily no one got hurt.

The guy I told about it though it was a cool idea and started making them and planting them around thinking it was funny when they went off. Yeah he was an idiot... The company actually came out with a memo company wide a few months later saying anyone caught doing this would be terminated. I guess this had spread to people doing it at other factories also.

That's the problem being young, immature you dont think about consequences until it's to late.

[Honkey_Kong]

You guys know of this other thing kids do to make a bomb. They take the lithium strips from those lithium AA batteries and they make it so it'll fall in water which causes it to explode.

[jasc]

You guys ever try the tennis ball "bomb"? the one where you drill a hole n fill it with those strike anywhere match tips?
Read about it in the Anarchist Cookbook as well.. figured it was bs or weak atleast but never did it correctly. I tried it on a smaller scale n it just caught fire.. lol

The AC was the coolest sh*t in the world when I was a kid.. back when AOL first came out.. haha

[lovbyts]

It's more fun taking a bunch of soup cans and taping them together, using lighter fluid and a tennis ball making cannon. Not nearly as dangerous either unless the ball is to tight and you blow up the cans...

[Honkey_Kong]

You guys ever try the tennis ball "bomb"? the one where you drill a hole n fill it with those strike anywhere match tips?
Read about it in the Anarchist Cookbook as well.. figured it was bs or weak atleast but never did it correctly. I tried it on a smaller scale n it just caught fire.. lol

The AC was the coolest sh*t in the world when I was a kid.. back when AOL first came out.. haha

I made those before, but I had collected thousands of match books. so I took the match tips from the books and cut out the striking paper and packed those in the tennis ball tight. I never could make it so there was enough pressure in the ball that it explodes. It just caught fire and burned out real quick.

[V-ROID]

Ah memories... Except instead of a tennis ball we used a lot of duct tape with a lug nut in the middle for weight and ignition. CRAZY what 2 boxes of matches can do. Also used to cut open shotgun shells and dump out all of the shot, then tape one of the shot on the primer, throw it up in the air and the heavy end comes down... Will experiment with lithium if I get really bored. But I guess since the advent of the NET, potato cannons and the like are common now, so the cool factor has dropped. All this info could come in handy one day for WWIII.

[DSM4Life]

Touch it...

[V-ROID]

Now I remember why you are on my ignore list.

Touch it...

[lovbyts]

Now I remember why you are on my ignore list.

LOL. That reminds me, I can edit my ignore list. I had one name on it and he is banned now.