Chemistry teacher sets students on fire in science experiment disaster

New York Post ^ | January 2, 2014 | Natasha Velez, Lorena Mongelli and Laura Italiano

[Rio]

My highschool chem teacher, Mr. Heron, loved blowing stuff up. I think He is the reason that I became a Chemical Engineer. He never injured any of us students, but did take out a big chunk of the T-bar ceiling in the chem lab one time.

[FredZarguna]

What movie is that scene from?

Not a movie. It's a scene from a Breaking Bad episode: "Crazy Handful of Nothin'" [season 1 episode 6.]

[TXnMA]

I consider it a measure of the school’s educational prowess that they have tenth graders who are so ignorant as to not know how to pull the pin on a fire extinguisher...

[Pharmboy]

Awful. Poor kid.

[pax_et_bonum]

Willie pushed his sister Nell
Into the family drinking well
She’s there now because it kilter
Now they have to buy a filter.

[Black Agnes]

The worst thing that happened in my high school chem lab was an open bottle of butyric acid.

When the bottle is labeled ‘warning, stench’, believe it.

[Delta Dawn]

I think I remember that.

Wasn’t that the inspiration for Elvis Presley’s big hit,

Return to Cinders?

[rmlew]

Never heard of The Beacon School before today.

[Rodamala]

My Chemistry teacher let us make Nitrogen Tri-iodide after school... fun stuff.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Also, not guilty

[Balding_Eagle]

Those would never work here in Colorado.

The Forest Service only starts ‘controlled’ burns here during high winds, winds too fast for helicopter flights.