Like I said, I've heard of dry ice. My high school general science teacher froze a banana and used to hammer a nail into a board.
It's the dry ice bomb I'm talking about. Can anyone point me to a TV show or movie where a dry ice bomb was made or mentioned? What I'm saying is that this is not common knowledge and when something is not common knowledge, it is incumbent on the reporter to explain.
It's a stunt that any mischievous teenage boy with a little scientific savvy could think up. Key is mischievous. Fill a breakable container with a pressurized gas to the point of breaking... not exactly Einsteinian skills required to engineer that.
In fact, a variant of the soda bottle dry ice bomb was whipped up by Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) in an episode of the old TV show ''I Spy'', thus anticipating MacGyver by about 25 years. As I recall (could easily be wrong), it involved a shoe box, dry ice, a little ammonium-based fertilizer, and a cigar.
I see your problem already. I can't show you a movie or tv show that mentions dry ice bombs. However, I can point you to dozens of science texts geared to middle school to high school level that detail the experiment. It's usually right next to the experiment where you hot and cold water to get air pressure to crush a metal gasoline can.