And Our First Contestant for the Darwin Awards This Year Is . . .

[rocknbil]

Balloon in car creates XL explosion

Hey guys, I got a cool idea! Let's fill a rubber baloon, which is well known for its static electricity properties, with an extremely explosive gas and take it to a public place! Wouldn't that just be a HOOT?!

 

[retarded pilot]

well they didnt say if they had kids or not ....hope those jeans die with them

 

[jmarzilli]

I believe they got the idea from the show American Chopper. If I recall they were messing around one episode with ballons, gas, acetylene, and a pipe.

 

[4u2nv]

What the hell were they gonna do with a balloon full of acetylene? It didnt say what it was even intended for. Some peoples kids...

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Yeah, I was going to ask something along the same lines. What was the goal of having the balloon full of acetylene anyway? Oh, it's absolutely a Darwin move (or would Kelvin be more appropriate) but I've never heard of folks setting off balloons of acetylene before. Would it produce something different than, say, a balloon full hydrogen or some other flammable gas? Just wondering.

 

[Buggyracer28]

"Norman Frey, 46, and his companion suffered busted eardrums in the explosion"

ooowwwww?????

 

[SumoDethRat]

I believe they got the idea from the show American Chopper. If I recall they were messing around one episode with ballons, gas, acetylene, and a pipe.

It was actually pretty cool but cmon... fill the damn balloons on sight and ignite immediately any 6 year old should know that balloons can generate a crapload of static, that static was half the fun.

 

[MonsterCowpower]

LOL :bowned: Lucky these clowns did not die...bustedeardrums. Send them deep into the woods where they will make the largest ballon filled with gas...BOUM

 

[beason]

found a link with a pic of the car!! suminabiotch!!! that HAD to hurt!!!!

here the story

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/6790966/detail.html

 

[HeartBreak]

Well, at least they don't have to worry about room for the bandages on their heads...

Dang, I can only imagine the pressure generated by the bang. Can you imagine the people in traffic around these brain surgeons?

They're extremely lucky the bang didn't set off the gas tank.

 

[MonsterCowpower]

Thank the lord these fellows are not into nitro powered RC,the would be "preheating" the gallon of nitro in the oven.

 

[digger]

Wonder if they are any relation to that kid AJ that was on here a year or so ago??? :LoL:

I worked at a job once that some of the guys had an acetylene cannon set up. Would shoot a 2-liter coke bottle full of water. I was young then. Would scare the hell out of me now. We were out in the boonies, but I figure the coke bottle was going about 1/2 a mile or so.

Those idiots are lucky as hell.

 

[HeartBreak]

Wonder if they are any relation to that kid AJ that was on here a year or so ago??? :LoL:

Ya mean the UniBeaver? He's still around here. Altho, his speciality is gun powder and glow plugs, if memory serves. I wonder if his folks ever got that 'anonymous tipoff' or not....?

My grandpa did that a long time ago when he had his semi. He filled an old bald tire half-way full of the stuff and set it off with a REAAAALLY long remote lead, buried quite a way into the dirt. It was kinda like the final scenes of Tremors, minus all the tomato soup.

 

[truthseeker]

that reminds me of a science demo we had in 5th grade. my buddy's dad was a chemist for chevron so he came and did a little show for all the kiddies in school. one thing he did was fill 2 balloons, one with helium and one with hydrogen. then he held a candle up to them and popped em. well, my class was the first one up and when he popped the hydrogen one it blew all the ceiling tiles above him straight to hell and gone. there he was covered all in white dust trying to act like that was supposed to happen or something. i'll never forget that 'til the day i die.