I've been wanting to make a dry ice bomb, but I never thought about shaking it...
I suppose everyone knows what one is... if you put dry ice in a plastic soda bottle it will go off with a loud bang. If you put it in a small space like a mail box, I should imagine it would cause a lot of damage. Only trouble is, it's rather unpredictable how long it takes for the pressure to build up sufficiently for the bottle to blow.
A one liter pop bottle will send a plastic 5gal bucket about 20 to 30 ft straight up with a little luck.
I won't began to talk about acetleyne ballons, :-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}