Use caution if you find a soda bottle BOMB!
 Please visit the "snopes" web-site http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp and view the clip as well as read the article. A little prevention can save someone a lot of misery. I sure would'nt want Bailee to accidently activate a soda bomb like one of these. I wouldn't want to activate one myself! This is real, it is not some silly rumor.  |
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| My friends and I used to make these in college. We would never ever leave them somewhere so that someone else would unknowingly set it off nor did we ever purposely damage something with them (we understood the reaction and the danger)... we just thought it was amusing to make them sometimes and throw them. It was like having a firecracker without actually having one. They would echo nicely up in rural Vermont when we'd visit a friend's farmhouse. We did notice however that stores like Stop and Shop stopped carrying Draino crystals circa '04 though... probably to stop stupid kids like us from blowing up soda bottles. It does scare me that people would leave them as "traps." though. I am a teacher now and could imagine some of my students doing this. Apathy runs rampant with kids, at least where I live, so I know many wouldn't think about the consequences or care. |
| Sheeesh... |
| You gotta admit though, science is pretty cool. I wouldn't want to find one but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to make one and blow it up myself just for fun. Yeah, I'm like a 12 year old boy. |
| I dun wanna look it up, how do they arrange it to detonate after disturbance? Do they keep the crystals dry somehow? Can also be done (without a delay or boobytrap effect) with a little dry ice and water. You might get serious shrapnel wounds, but at least you won't get chemical burns. Although handling the dry ice could lead to frostbite wounds. |
Ron wrote: I dun wanna look it up, how do they arrange it to detonate after disturbance? Do they keep the crystals dry somehow? Can also be done (without a delay or boobytrap effect) with a little dry ice and water. You might get serious shrapnel wounds, but at least you won't get chemical burns. Although handling the dry ice could lead to frostbite wounds. I'm not sure how these kids are doing it. I don't think you can mix it and set it down without it going off. Maybe if the contents are separated somehow... Like how some bottles have a groove in the middle so you can carefully keep things separated. I hate to admit one time we made them grenade style by putting a water balloon in the bottle with a tack through the cap. So with one violent shake you could trigger the reaction. Again we never left them or did damage with them... and if I recall the grenade style was created purely to see if it was possible (and only once). This makes me sound crazy I'm sure but I really promise we did no harm with them. We were just geeky college kids that enjoyed exploiting science for giggles. |
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