Nice video. Yup, that’s what happens when the heads come off of unsecured gas cylinders, assuming they don’t hit other cylinders, tear up wiring and cause a fire, or take out a classroom of students.
I always get kinda wiggy around gas cylinders that aren’t tied down–and you see that all the time if you look for it–because one day my father, who worked in a university engineering lab, said “Get in the car, there’s a fire at the lab.” When we got to lab where my father worked, a fairly large four-story cinderblock and brick building, there was a five foot hole in the outside brick wall, a banged up gas cylinder maybe a 100 feet away, and a smoldering fire in the building being put out by the fire department. Apparently, one of dad’s students left a torch pilot light on, the pilot burned through canvas straps holding the cylinder up, the cylinder fell, lost its valve, went airborne in the main lab space, bounced off a few walls, and then tore threw a electrical box on the way out of the building. It made an impression on me at the time, in part because instead of seeing my dad as the nerd he is, I got to think “Cool, he works around dozens of bomb-rockets that might go off at any minute.”
