Mysterious box of dynamite triggers evacuation in Knoxville

…and holes.

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Yeah, I am not an expert. I’ve just seen some videos of cutting up old welding gas bottles. They filled it with water, then cut off the top. Then when they cut into the bottles, if there is any gas, it just vents out the large opening up top. In the one I saw, there was no gas. :frowning:

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So: does one then run out and buy a lottery ticket, or never buy a lottery ticket again and drive 5 under the speed limit for the rest of one’s life? I’ve seen people spend a substantial chunk of their lifetime’s luck budget in one go, but if these folks were cats, they should reckon with having about 1 life left between them.

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I mean, we all knew the ending from the moment the guy mentioned the cistern. But it was worth every second of listening. Brilliant.

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I remember the sweating dynamite being a plot point in Lost, found in the Black Rock shipwreck.

Wound up blowing up one characters due to the nitro sensitivity in a spectacular way

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That’s a real trip into the past. I remember seeing PSAs about the dangers of blasting caps on TV when I was growing up, probably in the early to mid 1960s.

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Also a plot driver here:

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There must have been a lot of clenching when the torch wielders realised what their mystery prize was.

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Nor am I and I don’t think I want to become one. :wink:

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Just make sure the cylinder is water-tight and that nothing inside is likely to be damaged by whatever you use to cut into it, as the MythBusters found out during Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 2.

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