Police spent three hours collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses.

Three hours?! How long does it take to pick up the Coke bottle shards? Did they have to look so long to find the cap?

I for one am glad to see our money being so well spent catching people with soda and breath mints.

Bomb Pop

Landmark College. Where everyone from Birthmark High School wants to go.

hafta protect all of the little snowflakes!!

I guess we'll need prescriptions for Mentos now?

/Hater of fun-killers.
//Don't like fun killers either, ok well maybe sometimes.

I doubt Mentos and Coke would work, if the Mentos simply act as a catalyst for the release of the CO2 in the beverage. The Coke bottle must be strong enough to store the Coke and all the CO2 in it.

Many, however, can think of a simple chemical reaction using household products that really Works...

OrangeSnapper:
Many, however, can think of a simple chemical reaction using household products that really Works...

Chlorine tablets and alcohol?
Oven cleaner and aluminum foil?

1-31-07 NEVER FORGET

TFA doesn't mention if they arrived in time to save the cat.

NoDitchDigging: [thecia.com.au image 246x333]

TFA doesn't mention if they arrived in time to save the cat.

Also didn't mention if they were "too old for this shiat".

Going to go with "dry ice bomb" as well, not mentos/coke.

The bomb-like device contained two substances that produced a gas that reacted and exploded inside a plastic container.

Most likely:

1. a Works Bomb

2. a Chlorine bomb

What is a Works Bomb?

Also, the interviews took three hours because there were coeds to be interrogated. Many, many pretty coeds... (cops turn into serious creeps around college girls).

Even a simple dry ice bomb can produce a loud enough "boom" to cause serious/permanent hearing damage, and if you're standing in the wrong place could definitely cause some other injuries as well. With non-stupid safety precautions, such things could be good, clean fun - the problem is that many pranksters don't take such precautions to protect themselves and others.

Pranks are fine, but pranks that can cause permanent injury cross the line.

OrangeSnapper: I doubt Mentos and Coke would work, if the Mentos simply act as a catalyst for the release of the CO2 in the beverage. The Coke bottle must be strong enough to store the Coke and all the CO2 in it.

The CO2 is dissolved in the coke; the mixture itself is not really under that much pressure at all. If you could get all the CO2 to release into the little pocket of air in the top of the bottle there would be plenty enough to blow the top off.

brimed03: What is a Works Bomb?

Also, the interviews took three hours because there were coeds to be interrogated. Many, many pretty coeds... (cops turn into serious creeps around college girls).

IIRC, a Works bomb consists of The Works toilet bowl cleaner, aluminum foil, and a container.

/may have made a few in college

michaelkristopeit: what if the bomb squad responded to a quarter stick of dynamite being exploded? would that be asinine too?

Yeah, it would be asinine.
Because
a) a quarter stick of dynamite is little more than a big firecracker, and
b) it's already exploded. WTF is the bomb squad going to do about an already lit firecracker besides sweep up the scraps? Detonate the remains? Scour the campus to find the evil Mooslim turrists that must have brought such WMD's to a college?

I got hold of several quarter sticks for the 4th a few years ago. They were fun to blow shiat up with in the street. No bomb squad showed up.

StrangeQ: The CO2 is dissolved in the coke; the mixture itself is not really under that much pressure at all. If you could get all the CO2 to release into the little pocket of air in the top of the bottle there would be plenty enough to blow the top off.

Heh. Gaseous precipitation, how does it work?

Disposable Rob: My guess is it was something more effective than Diet Coke and Mentos, like an MRE heater bomb (new window).

Isn't learning to make one of those a right of passage in the Armed Forces now? I know a guy who's an aircrew member in the Marines and he knows how to make one.

Duck0987: The bomb-like device contained two substances that produced a gas that reacted and exploded inside a plastic container.

Most likely:

1. a Works Bomb

2. a Chlorine bomb

3. Calcium carbide bomb.

StrangeQ: ReverendJasen: StrangeQ: The CO2 is dissolved in the coke; the mixture itself is not really under that much pressure at all. If you could get all the CO2 to release into the little pocket of air in the top of the bottle there would be plenty enough to blow the top off.

Heh. Gaseous precipitation, how does it work?

Why don't you go look it up; take a thermo class while you're at it. Yes, some of the gas leaks out, until it reaches an equilibrium with the gasses still dissolved in the liquid. It's the same reason you get better gas mileage from the first havehalf of your tank than the last half. But the amount of gas released in this case would create a pressure that is far below the amount that would be present if the entirety of the dissolved gas were to be released.

ftfm
/I blame autocorrect

No one was injured, but the blast was heard across campus.
I think this partially warrants the response. I doubt this has anything to do with Mentos. As has been mentioned above, it was probably a Works or dry ice bomb.

xip_80: No one was injured, but the blast was heard across campus.
I think this partially warrants the response. I doubt this has anything to do with Mentos. As has been mentioned above, it was probably a Works or dry ice bomb.

What's sad is that with a few chains of those inflated shipping pillows, you could effectively shut down a college campus because someone thought they heard a barrage of gunfire from the parking lot. We put those under coworkers' tires. The large, strong pillows go off loud, especially when the driver doesn't have a lead foot. The uninitiated think they hit something or blew something out in their car. It's really great on new people, even better on those who get on your nerves. If they really get on your nerves, you put a tiewrap on their driveshaft before they leave. Sounds like their engine's ticking something fierce.

Tinfoil balls - works toilet bowl cleaner - pop bottle - works best on warm days or at least non-cold ones. - go away the cleaner is corrosive and gets disbursed widley when things go boom

Also acetylne and a burning string to a garbage bag let into the night air is pretty amusing. -this ones a good way to get hurt as well

Dry ice is probably the safest here.

brimed03: cops turn into serious creeps around college girls anyone they think they can fark

FTFY.

michaelkristopeit 2011-10-24 03:40:39 PM

ReverendJasen: michaelkristopeit: what if the bomb squad responded to a quarter stick of dynamite being exploded? would that be asinine too?

Yeah, it would be asinine.
Because
a) a quarter stick of dynamite is little more than a big firecracker, and
b) it's already exploded. WTF is the bomb squad going to do about an already lit firecracker besides sweep up the scraps? Detonate the remains? Scour the campus to find the evil Mooslim turrists that must have brought such WMD's to a college?

I got hold of several quarter sticks for the 4th a few years ago. They were fun to blow shiat up with in the street. No bomb squad showed up.

so you wouldn't be concerned if i were to detonate a quarter stick of dynamite near you? perhaps throw it at you after i lit it? maybe place it under your car?

after ONE quarter stick was detonated, in the example you provided, you'd still have (several - 1) objects capable of "blowing shiat up in the street" in your possession.

you're an ignorant hypocrite and an idiot.



You're stupid and boring. Please refrain from posting again.

It was drain cleaner and aluminum foil in a soda bottle, smitty.

OrangeSnapper: I doubt Mentos and Coke would work, if the Mentos simply act as a catalyst for the release of the CO2 in the beverage. The Coke bottle must be strong enough to store the Coke and all the CO2 in it.

Many, however, can think of a simple chemical reaction using household products that really Works...

I see what you did there. -_-

/and yes, that really Worx

Clearly the work of Al-Kida.