I didn’t do this but the son of a friend did.
There was construction going on in the neighborhood. Her son found some blasting caps. He found it interesting to put them on the radiator, make them go sssszzz, and then take them off.
Anyway - he was sitting on the toilet one day putting the blasting caps on the radiator. One of them wouldn’t stop sizizng so he stood up and threw it in the toilet.
You’re right. The thing exploded. The contents of the toilet went all over the bathroom. The commode went into 5 or 6 pieces. He came running out of the basement with his pants down around his ankles.
Interestingly, the plumber never asked how the commode was destroyed.
***Her son found some blasting caps.***
When I was young out in the mining and oil camps of the west, all the schools had assembies in which we were warned to look out for blasting caps.
We never found any, but dad did find a stick of dynamite in a house we rented. He had been in the Combat Engineers and loaded us all up in the car, took us way out into the country and showed us how to slice up and destroy a stick of dynamite.
If that thing had gone off in the car I would not be writing this today.
Today, if a stick is found, there is a evacuation of the area, and the police bomb squad blows up the stick without removing it from the area.
Only time I got to mess with blasting caps, I was handing them to the blaster and some genius keyed his radio next to me.
They didn’t go off, but for about a four beat my heart sat still as Iscanned all incoming stimuli for “boom”.