My wife bought two of these, one for us and another for the daughter's family. If you have one please make sure anyone using it is aware of how easily this can happen.
It sounds like the bottles of gel could be weaponized with the addition of a fuse. Keep pests like flash mobs away at the beach.
To: Second Amendment First
It sounds like the bottles of gel could be weaponized with the addition of a fuse.Hmmmm.... Yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking.
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Check. Added to my Zombie Apocalypse shopping list...
3 posted on
06/11/2011 8:55:07 AM PDT by
null and void
(We are now in day 870 of our national holiday from reality. - Obama really isn't one of us)
To: Squantos; Gilbo_3; NFHale
4 posted on
06/11/2011 8:55:29 AM PDT by
hiredhand
To: Second Amendment First
When the gel did not seem to catch on fire, the boy added more fuel — and it “exploded into a fireball,” according to Fran Reyer-Johnson, the bride. “There’s no wick,” she said. “That’s the problem. You don’t see that it’s lit.”
To: Second Amendment First
"but the quart bottle of fuel he was pouring instead burst into flames. "
Sounds like somebody poured fuel onto an open flame, with predictable results. In this case, I'd wager the flame was either light blue and difficult to see in ambient light, or perfectly clear like burning high grade alcohol. Giving, thereby, the impression that no flame was present.
7 posted on
06/11/2011 9:02:49 AM PDT by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: Second Amendment First
9 posted on
06/11/2011 9:05:17 AM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Second Amendment First
It’s another form of Sterno only more explosive!
10 posted on
06/11/2011 9:06:47 AM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Second Amendment First
>but the quart bottle of fuel he was pouring instead burst into flames.
Not all by itself it didn’t. Pouring flammable liquids or gels into a burning or very hot container will get you in trouble
fast. Maybe some people need assistance handling energetic substances like in New Jersey where they won’t even let you pump your
own gasoline.
It’s not the lack of warnings on the stuff, it’s the user nearly every time.
24 posted on
06/11/2011 10:22:25 AM PDT by
soycd
To: Second Amendment First
Somebody call the Consumer Product Safety Commission. We must ban these.
26 posted on
06/11/2011 11:42:47 AM PDT by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Second Amendment First
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"warnings that gave no sense of how dangerous they could be" IT'S FIRE!
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While I sympathize with the victims, my guess is that this resulted from user error.
34 posted on
06/11/2011 3:53:53 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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