"Blowed up real good!"
Posted on 08/19/2010 12:34:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
At about 10:30 p.m. on August 14, the police and fire departments were called to a residence on Noble Street in Casa de Oro after neighbors heard a loud explosion. There was plenty excitement among the ten or twelve partygoers when firefighters arrived on the scene, but it was quickly determined that there was no fire or injuries.
When questioned, the owner of the house explained that he had been planning a Polynesian-style luau for some time and that he had dug a large fire pit in the backyard to roast the 280-pound pig he had purchased for the occasion. The problem (the explosion) occurred when he was trying to ignite the fire in the five-foot-wide, four-foot-deep fire pit. To light the barbecue quickly, he was using a small amount of gasoline as an accelerant. The chef apparently waited too long before striking the match, and fumes from the gasoline ignited and resulted in an explosion that was heard several blocks away.
The owner of the house was not guilty of any wrongdoing and so was not cited by police or the fire department. The luau went on as planned.
A 280 lb exploding pig.
Someone should replicate this accident around two blocks from Ground Zero...
A small, 5 gallon can of accelerant.
LOL
“small amount of gasoline as an accelerant”
does not create a loud BOOM heard several blocks away.
Good idea about the GZ hamasque...maybe make bacon grease ballon bombs....
Newsguys never ask the right questions, like “does he still have eyebrows”?
Pig seasoned with gasoline sounds really tasty!
At a company pig roast, years ago; we had the porker sandwiched between two layers of chicken wire and rebar above a charcoal fire. Cooking commenced at 4 AM.
By 7:00 it exploded in a ball of flames, taking down the public park cooking structure with it. The pig was facing skin down to the coals and a large volume of super critical grease had slowly accumulated and then ruptured at once. In four hours 400 hungry visitors were to arrive, with no pig to eat.
Lesson learned: poke the pig.
"Blowed up real good!"
Pig in a poke?
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