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- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+84That can't be good... We have a cupboard stocked with 40 aerosol cans (they were on offer..). If we had a fire, we could destroy our town :o
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+76So I put a basket of laundry ontop of my stove, next to a combustable item. I accidentally bumped the knob, I didn't even check to see if a I actually turned it on. Boom, It cracked the wall and made the roof rise.
No he made a bomb, and this elaborate story is to cover it up. - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+67"...left a washing basket full of clothes on top of the electric cooker. He then accidentally knocked one of the hob controls, turning on one of the rings, before going out to meet friends."
Thats the best place to leave a basket of clothes. - Nick_Circosta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+64so... will schools be banning deodorant now will they
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44Well what do you want, the oven was already full of oily rags and matches.
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44It's like a Rube Goldberg contraption of DOOM!
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44[Bag of Shopping]
+4 to any shopping task
+1 Charisma
No AC bonus - aplusbi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33@anonatron:
The shaving cream bomb is a myth. One can is enough to fill up a bucket, that's all: http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/frozen/frozen.html - quadvods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Mine already did years ago... can't let children have the *possibility* of solvent abuse now can you...
- daeken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32@ kb9vgr:
Your English teacher just committed suicide. - dchesterton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Solvent abuse? Deodorant cans make the best flamethrowers, one kid got expelled in our school for his 'resourcefulness'.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Just schools? What about airports? Deodorant is now as lethal as a knife.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Weapons of Mass Deodorant
Contacting W now... - MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31... use a stick of deoderant... I didn't even know they sold it in cans.. lol
- dstart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Want to see what happens when you heat up a can of shaving foam?
http://danny.st/pub/gillette_preview.wmv - My friend was quite hurt =D - venir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Sure should make this a marketing tool. I can see it now:
"Do you smell? Get Sure!
If it can blow the roof off a house, and crack the foundation, imagine what it does to odor!" - ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26"A bag of shopping" is correct.
- boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23On the plus side, the explosion smelled fresh and clean.
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20The contractor was "Little Pigs Three."
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I've got to agree -- this sounds like ***** to me. When mythbusters did the "can you blow up a house with bugbombs" myth, didn't they use, like, 20?
Pretty sure a single can of deoderant isn't that powerful. I mean, *****, if it is, doesn't that make it more powerful per pound than most explosives the military uses? - awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23Electric Bill for the Electric Cooker .... 27,50 GBP.
Movies & Lunch with Friends ... 10,00 GBP.
Can of Deodorant ... 3,50 GBP.
Blowing up your house with deodorant while your parents are away and making international news ... Priceless.
There are somethings money can buy.
For everything else, There's digg. - 1ivewire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I love how the article calls it a "freak string of mishaps". Maybe the author was referring to how their son became a dumbass.
- crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20similar to m#####'s comment...
we used to tape the cap down so it was spraying until the can was empty and then throw it into the girls locker room through a hole in the roof. Some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen. (also says something about our school since there was a hole in the roof of the girls locker room o_O ) - superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Oh god, if my school set fire, it might destroy all of down town. There is at least one can of Axe in each locker. I know some one who has 5...
- Merx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18hey ericanderton, you forgot the +10 weakness to fire, and apparently so did the kid in the story
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17To tell you the truth, he's a friggin dumbass. And it seems that his parents didn't scold him for leaving a bag of clothes on top of a cooker...
...and they blame the aerosol cans for this instead of the preliminary cause of this fire. Ughh... - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Uhh, bag of shopping is perfectly acceptable here. kthx.
I could go on for days about the curiosities of your dialect (assuming you're American), but I'll spare you. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Yeah but try blowing one up inside of a closed room. The air pressure form the blast would surely be enough to break windows, maybe even crack the wall. But as for the roof lifting off, I dunno that just sounds like *****.
- eltomo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16My school keeps on re-banning aerosol cans. Every time someone uses it as a weapon...
- aclottmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Sounds like a job for MythBusters...
- anonatron, on 10/12/2007, -10/+23what is even better is the opposite, freeze a can of shaving foam, then use a saw to cut off the bottom. Throw the split can on the front seat of someone's car in mid summer and laugh you ass off as you wait in the bushes when your friend comes out to his foam-filled mustang!
- CapnKidd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Great, now we wont be allowed to bring deodorant onto planes.
Guard: "What were you planning to do with this deodorant???"
"Uhhh...." - TubaTechno, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13What kind of house was it? A can being able to blow the roof around a little?! Weak roof if you ask me...
- sfly510, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Shopping is a noun you dumbass. It's called a gerund. LEARN English beofre you make fun of other people's.
- mage1129, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18There is a difference between British English and American English, way to be a moron.
- slackbuster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9..And in today's news, the Department of Homeland Security outlawed all sales of aerosol deodorant as they could be linked to possible terrorist attacks.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Oh come on now, the Daily Mail is full of quality journalism.
OK, not really. - m85476585, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The Mythbusters didn't use the cans under pressure. They let them empty a little first and tried to ignite the gasses.
- m85476585, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The Mythbusters didn't try to explode the cans under pressure. They let them empty for a while.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Consider that there might be mitigating circumstances here. For one thing, how hot did the house get before this thing exploded? It's a little different than tossing it into a fire. Longer exposure to heat would give this thing time to build up pressure longer before being sent over the edge by direct exposure to flame. Second, a closed environment where a fire had been consuming oxygen would've made the house contain less gasses overall, so a sudden explosion could've more easily facilitated a more damaging one.
Try being a little more scientific before you write this off. Throwing a can into a bonfire outside on a cool night will produce a nice little explosion, but try enclosing the object in a hot environment with a thinner atmosphere and then observe the results.
On second thought, don't try it. I don't want to be held responsible for your injuries. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Im sure terrorists are already well aware that Aerosol plus Fire = BOOM. they are not retarded you know
- expertninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've done something similar to this, but with a can of hairspray (the really cheap stuff loaded with flammable chemicals). Thankfully, I was outside, but the fireball was around 30 feet tall and we never found the can. Children, take heed! Stick to firecrackers.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The English spoken today is actually a development out of early modern english, which came from middle english, which came from old english, which is a combination of Old Norse and German. Along the way, English accumulated many other words from romance languages. *Whips out BA in English* Boo-ya.
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Quote: "Sean phoned me and said: 'Mum, the house is on fire.' I have forgiven him because it was just one of those unfortunate accidents. I am just grateful that he and the dogs are alive and well," said Mrs Bray.
It's awesome that everyone's okay, but hold the phone here for a second. Lets go over the string of events one more time:
1) Kid puts a basket of laundry on the electric stove, and accidentally turns it on
2) Clothes catch fire
3) Fire heats up "a nearby bag of shopping" (which presumably contains deodorant)
3) Can of Sure deodorant explodes from heat caused by the fire
4) Kitchen is set ablaze
Now, I can understand that the above is in no way deliberate - house fires seldom are. But if you're putting FLAMMABLE ITEMS ON OR NEXT TO THE STOVE, then this sequence of events is anything but a "WTF". Simply... amazing.
Question: does homeowner's insurance cover damage due to exploding aerosols? - TVarmy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7My middle school banned aerosol deodorant because kids are too immature with it, spraying down other kids, abusing a can until it won't turn off, etc. My high school allows it, though. The staff likes to pretend the kids are more mature in high school, but they aren't. There's still a thick vapor of Axe looming in the air every day.
- mattdunn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I've exploded these things in bonfires before, theres no way it blew up a house.
- NeCtUr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7That was probably when it was or nearly was empty. This was a brand new can and aerosol is under extremely high pressure when they are brand new.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5In fact, here's a synopsis of that episode:
http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/html/exploding_house.html
The crew sets up an old house...with several bug bombs. There%u2019s a small ignition, but an ignition nonetheless, so the team fills the house with even more bug bombs than before. Once the team is out of the house, the switch is flicked%u2026and several windows are busted out, and a sliding door is knocked off its track.
"Several" bugbombs didn't do *****. We're talking 12 or something to blow a window out. What are the chances a single can of deoderant can compare to that? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I have forgiven him because it was just one of those unfortunate accidents. I am just grateful that he and the dogs are alive and well," said Mrs Bray.
"I can't really blame him for what happened. I would be happy to leave him again when we next go on holiday. It is just ironic that the fire was started by the electric hob because Sean didn't actually cook anything while we were away - he survived on microwave meals and takeaways."
I want your parents. - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What a load of crap.
Setting various things on fire was a hobby of mine when I was a kid, and I've thrown numerous kinds of aerosol cans in fires.
They don't explode...they pop...and they sure as hell don't have the force to lift a roof off. -
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