One of my wife's asthma inhalers once inadvertently wound up in the fireplace. It took off like a mortar. I thank God no one was in front of the fireplace when it punched a hole through the screen and smacked the opposite wall.
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One of my wife's asthma inhalers once inadvertently wound up in the fireplace. It took off like a mortar. I thank God no one was in front of the fireplace when it punched a hole through the screen and smacked the opposite wall.
Are you guys familiar with those small CO2 ampules used in pellet rifles? On a camping trip back in the Spring of 1984, we'd built a huge bonfire. It must've been ten feet in diameter, with flames five or six feet high.
My cousin noticed the "DO NOT INCINERATE" warning on the box, and I took the dare. I tossed one of those into the heart of that fire and we both dove for cover behind nearby trees. About five seconds after landing in the embers, the ampule ruptured with a deafening report.
All that carbon dioxide also snuffed the fire out in an instant, like flicking a switch. All that remained was a fountain of ash and glowing embers, which rained back down on us, starting little fires which we spent fifteen minutes extinguishing. We also laughed ourselves weak.
We'd been drinking beer, too - but we were still smart enough to pull that stunt only when we were the only people around, AND could find sufficient cover.
>We used to do this with empty hairspray cans with a volume of 16 oz. I can only imagine what an 11 gallon container would do, but it would be nasty.
On a camping trip, some idiot threw .22 caliber shells into the campfire; thank God no one was hit, but it was scary.