[newguy357]

Far be it for me to defend the Feds here but a still is basically a fuel air bomb in the making.

Oh come on. Hundreds of thousands of organic chemistry students use the same distillation techniques every year. Don't sensationalize things.

[Al Gator]

Homemade stills blow up. Period.

Stills in a classroom are inspected and run small quantities.

A large still, handling several gallons of ethanol, is in fact a bomb and can flat level a barn, chicken coop, or whatever other building its hidden in.

That's in addition to exciting the atoms in your body to the tune of a few thousand feet per second. Which means you will basically fly into lots of little pieces.