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Man drops firecracker into grease pit.
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I wonder what volatile substance was in that pit that the firecracker set off.
Guessing the usual melange of hydrocarbons that are in grease pits...Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Yeah, drop a firecracker into a confined space known to contain flammable vapors! What could possibly go wrong? Another Darwin's list candidate. He didn't get inducted this time, but he just might make it on the next attempt.
Today's Russian vocabulary word is "дебил."
What I am thinking is, since this was obviously a staged event for click bait the guy, probably opened an LP tank down there for a while ither that o r a nat. gas line.Quote:
Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat
Generally greases and oils would not produce enough vapors to instantly combust from a a source as small as a fire cracker,
I bet his mama is real proud:D
Yep. About sums him up.Quote:
Originally Posted by eoverton
It is just a pit and usually they get full of water and oil spills unless they have a proper sump which needs to be cleaned regularly.I think Frank S has nailed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat
But, Frank S., why wouldn't a fuse set off LP gas before the "firecracker" went off? I don't think "firecracker" is an apt descriptor of whatever he dropped into the pit.
The same reason it sometimes takes the electronic spark a dozen times to light a stove, BBQ grill or a space heater where as a match will light them quickly. or a lit cigarette with an ash in the end might be extinguished in a pail of gasoline but one with a glowing end will cause the vapors to explode its the size of the heat source and the concentration of the vapor moleculesQuote:
Originally Posted by awright
For the firecracker descriptor, you could be partially correct, a M80 will destroy a large rural mailbox but will only deform or possibly split a sealed steel trashcan with the lid on tightly. A hand grenade could possibly displace a few of the timbers covering the pit but not to the level of the demonstration plus there would have been the danger of the shrapnel to the fool sitting in the chair.
Admittedly my explosives experience is based on limited training from 50 years ago but my vote still goes to some form of heavier than air volatile vapors and a large engough heat source to ignite them, for all we know they may have practiced this several times without the guy sitting in the chair before they felt they had a perfect combination
She sees that, I bet she denies being his mama.Quote:
Originally Posted by drivermark
дебил = Debil
The word can refer to stupid or slow in many slavic languages including bulgarian, serbian, slovakian, russian and polish.
In spanish it means slow or weak, stemming from latin debilis which means feeble or weak.
On ogromnyj debil = he is a humongous idiot
Es muy débil de carácter = she is very weak
Obviously you are not a moron.Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
In my workshop he would be both metaphorically and physically FIRED.