Insert “smoking is hazardeous to your health” joke here.
If he wins he’ll be flushed with victory, but I suspect it’s just a flash in the pan.
See? Smoking pot IS bad for you!
That’s what you get when you try to light your farts.
Gah. I hate having to move this thread. It has such rich potential for genuniely vile humor.
Ah well. Duty is stern.
Off to MPSIMS.
Veb
It’s a shame, really, it had such potential. But I just don’t believe it anymore! It’s just too much like these stories: http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/accident/toilet.asp :smack:
Max.
Thus a “can” thread gets… canned. Or flushed, if you will. Or dumped into this forum.
I know that reporters work under intense pressure to produce hot copy promising an explosive impact and set off in flashy style, but the AP story was a piss-poor writeup IMHO, de-emphasizing the actual, desensationalized causes of the mishap to make it sound, at first glance, as if smoking in a porto-potty can cause it to blow up (“a mighty wind,” anyone?). You have to get to paragraph 3 to hear of a natural-gas pipe angle, and to paragraph 5 to learn of how such an accident could’ve happened (construction equipment rupturing the pipe; the rupture going undiscovered; gas collecting under the porto-john).
A curious human-interest story, but ultimately… a sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Didn’t Mythbusters debunk this? Ok, they didn’t use methane gas, but other flammables like hairspray & butane only caused a tiny “poof”.
Yeah they did. But it was for a home toilet, not a port-a-let, and I’m pretty sure they didn’t runa ruptured methane line underneath it.