This . . .
is a cannon.
Plastic or glass shrapnel?
Geez!
Darwin at work?
Used to have a friend that got seriously burned when the ash from his cigarette fell into a dish of homemade gunpowder he made............................
Oops, not ‘gun powder’, FLASH powder..................
I was in India a few years back, and I was shooting off some local fireworks.
There was a fountain that looked pretty cool. It had a bunch of Hindi writing on it, and a picture of the firework stuck into the neck of a bottle.
Being a clever fellow, I followed the directions and stuck the firework in the neck of a bottle and lit it off. It gave off a nice fountain for about 15 seconds, dropped into the bottle, and exploded, shredding my pants and embedding glass in my legs and hand. I just had time to look away and raise my hand to protect my face when the firework dropped before the explosion.
Needless to say, I was sore vexed. After picking the broken glass out of my flesh and cleaning up the blood, I showed the firework to the cook, who was standing nearby, but not too near. He translated the words above the picture...
“DO NOT DO THIS”...
Moral of the Story: Ignorance and explosives are a poor combination!
Honey (I) Roasted (my) Nuts.
This . . .
is a cannon.
My guess—this was done with Pyrodex, a “safer” form of black powder that is itself a true explosive.
It took a full second for the jar to blow. Had it been ‘black’—more like a millisecond.
The only error here is the failure to secure the powder container before firing—BUT WITH EXPLOSIVES OF ANY KIND, THAT IS ALL IT TAKES.
In the mid-1960s, my older brother made a black powder ‘firecracker’. He lit the fuse, put it in a neighbor’s mailbox and told me to shut and hold the lid.
He caught hell for blowing up the mailbox and had to replace it. Somehow, I didn’t catch any shrapnel, but the explosion sure didn’t help my hearing many years later.