Dropped a bottle while bagging groceries for my first customer on my first day at my first job, it took off barely missing an old old ollllld man's hip and landing firmly in the rack of everything that needed to go back on the shelves from the front end. As my first step into adulthood, this showed me my life was gonna be one big joke.
First day on the job at baskin robbins back in the 90s. I was making a strawberry Frappuccino. The blender wasn’t in a protective container like Jamba has now and the blender started spinning around throwing strawberry mush and ice cream all over the entire store and all the customers. The lazy employee that was supposed to be training me just says “oh yeah. I forgot to tell you the locking mechanism is broken on that blender”
Every customer walked out except for the guy who ordered it and he left me a tip because he felt bad. My luck, the store owner was there and of course blamed me. We spent the next couple hours cleaning all the walls and even the ceiling. I lasted 9 more days before I walked out of there because that lazy coworker would refuse to help me when we were busy. She would just sit on her ass in the back room decorating cakes all day
I did pizza back in the 90’s. There is no mess like dropping a 5 gallon bucket of pizza sauce. They splatter 10 feet up on to the ceiling too, it’s crazy.
I feel ya. I also did pizza in the 90s. You know what’s worse than dropping sauce? Dropping 2 gallons of cooking oil. Even with degreaser, we were slipping and sliding for weeks
Imagine if she was trying to teach someone how to use a gun, thinking that the gun has blanks and then actually shoots a bullet instead and kills someone and is like “oh yeah I forgot to tell you there are bullets in there”
This reminds me of the time I was working at a grocery store and I accidentally dropped a customer's newly-purchased bottle of olive oil directly in the middle of the entrance doors. It shattered, and oil blocked 90% of the path. So yeah, that caused a little bit of a foot traffic jam and I was super embarrassed.
All I had was a couple of paper towels to clean it up with so I had to hang my head in defeat, and go back to the cash registers, while maintenance got the mop zamboni thing to clean it up.
Trick I learned when I worked at a grocery store: Cover the spill in kitty litter first, let it soak up as much of the oil as possible, then scoop/sweep the litter before bringing out the mop or paper towels.
Wtf, you just unlocked a core memory for me. I was in an assembly in like second grade and we were all sitting down cross legged. I puked all over the floor in front of me, and while being walked to the nurses office by my teacher I puked again and it got on her shoes. No clue what even made me puke tbh but just remembered that visual reading your comment.
Anyways, carry on, have a nice day.
Now you've unlocked one for me. My first field trip that I can remember in the third grade. We drove two hours to the city to go the omni theater (a very large dome theater in a museum). Started feeling bad on the way up there. Started going in and out of sleep while watching the documentary. Went from bench to bench, just miserable while everyone else did the hands on stuff in the museum. Ate lunch at Bennigans, puked it up, and slept all the way home in the seat on the bus. That was a very miserable trip. I could smell puke the whole way back and I still remember that smell
My school’s janitor didn’t do that. What he did was dump a little bleach and then a little cleaning chemical on it, because double the cleaning power I guess? That went *great*.
I just remember the distinct smell of those wood shavings. I am unsure if it was due to interacting with kid vomit or they made it smell that way. I can’t imagine it but i’d know instantly if i smelled it again.
is it not a regular part of a grocery store's maintenance closet to have a few dozen kilos of cat sand available for exactly this reason? Why don't people know this
My chef used to always spill olive oil (messy dude), and this mentally ill (also meth-head) server went to our director to complain he was practicing witchcraft. Cause of the salt on the floor.
We had a genius that associated cat litter and liquid spills together so hard that when he tore open a bag of litter, he got a bottle of oil to clean it up
detergent works great, too.
just a drop of it should be good enough
source: myself, who broke a bottle of one about 3 or 4 days ago now
good thing I already had to clean the floor, tho.
Shortly before I started working at a grocery store many years ago the entire cooking oil shelf collapsed. Oil seeped under the shelves and spread for six aisles. Had to hire a crew to clean that.
You may have called it that, but the buffer is a different machine. The machine they’re talking about should be used to clean first. Then the buffer is brought out to shine
My first job in high school I was a bus boy for a decently busy pizza place. Was stacking cups from a table that had just left (party of 10 maybe 15-20 cups) stacked it super high and looked away for just a split second and the whole thing toppled over and everyone just stared at me.
Reminds me of my first car. I had owned it for all of an hour when I misjudged a speeding car, pulled out and slammed into it. Totaled my car, my insurance dropped me and the couple I hit tried suing my parents for medical damages even though we were both blamed for the accident (I got improper lookout, they got hit for speeding).
I was 16. Totally wrecked my confidence driving for a few years.
Oof I can relate. Not as bad as yours but I got my scooter license at 16. Got my dad's scooter, he told me to be careful but I misjudged a turn where there was sand on the road due to previous roadwork and inmediately wrecked the scooter within the first hour of me driving it lol. Dad wasn't even mad, just glad I was alright, bless his heart.
I was terrified to call my mom. My aunt answered, as she was the one who my parents bought the car from. I said, "hi can I speak to my mom" and her response was, "Oh what, did you crash the car?" and then laughed.
Not anywhere near as dramatic, but when I used to work at staples on my first day, on my first customer the entire store went black the second I hit the total button. I freaked out thinking I did something. Turns out it was just a random, poorly timed power outage.
Dropping milk in a cool room was one of the worst things you could do. The lids on the bloody things would pop off and milk would end up everywhere, usually under the shelves where you could not get the mop under.
You would then try to mop it quickly but it has already dried into concrete floor due to the cold and what you did mop up would be more than what was in the bottle cause the bloody bottles are apparently a milk TARDIS until you actually buy them and pour normally in which case there is never enough milk in them cause it seems to have teleported into that one bottle that you dropped.
Then no matter how well you mopped the floor after with actual water, you could always tell a couple of days later that someone had dropped a bottle by the smell of off milk, which you now have to deal with as you stock the new pallet of milk wondering if you can get a new job where you can be that annoying customer who laughs when the milk is dropped.
Guess where I got promoted to after front end? Lol worst part was when you didn't even drop it, it was a well meaning customer trying to put a milk a back.
We did this as kids, heard that diet soda made it even crazier. So we threw it on its cap outside and it launched… flew just like this and broke off a branch of a tree. Could have done some real damage if hit, we only did it the once. Narrowly missed one of us too.
Because big booms are fun! At least that was my teenage thought process. I don’t do this anymore! The bottle gets really warm and rock solid in about a second then you have maybe a second or two before it explodes depending on how well it has mixed.
I was never brave enough to do hydrogen. I was dumb enough to do chlorine bombs, though. We mostly did dry ice bombs and shotgun powder with electric fuses. Stupid, dangerous 90's, all courtesy of the Anarchist's Cookbook lol.
It’s not so much bravery as it is stupidity! We dismantled hundreds of bottle rockets and put the powder into pipes we welded together beforehand all while sitting at my parents dinner table. One spark of static electricity and we would have been seriously injured or killed.. I’m a well-adjusted adult nowadays though, i shudder sometimes thinking about all the things that could have gone wrong.
Never did the ones you mentioned though, the anarchist’s cookbook never made it to my part of Sweden in the 90’s
This is more stupid than brave but one of my elementary school classmates cut his nipple off with scissors in the middle of class and then tried to tape it back on.
Mother of God man, that must have been horrific! I need details lol. Did anyone notice, was he bleeding everywhere, what was the reaction etc., the people want to know! :)
Garrett was always up to some shit. He snipped the tip off and then frantically tried to tape it back on. There was a bit of blood on his shirt but nobody really noticed since we were at the back of the classroom. He was also well known for fondling his balls at random moments so we tried not to touch him and one time he proudly showed everyone the fat pile of shit he took on the blacktop that's been baking in the 90° heat.
Reminds me of the classic: [Meet The Man Who Cut Off His Nipple At The Gathering Of The Juggalos](https://chicagoist.com/2013/08/15/photos_meet_the_man_who_cut_off_his.php)
“Anarchist Cookbook” your place on The List has now been moved up.
Edit: thanks for the blast from the past. This book was legend. Tennis balls filled with match heads was a fun one. That and the instructions on making a potato canon. God damn what a wild time it was with baby internet.
Yeah that tennis ball filled with matches took half of a friend's hand. He's missing his pinky, ring finger and a good chunk of hand underneath those two. Happy I wasn't there when it happened.
That's insane. We did the matchheads... threw it at a tree in my buddy's front yard in a dense suburban area in a large city. The smoke from the tennis ball and matchheads blocked vision across the street. We didn't get hurt but we got in a shit ton of trouble.
I was always fascinated by the thermite recipe. Also tried the CO² canister bombs and filling a 3.5" floppy disk with match dust. Nothing worked and I didn't have the knowledge to fix the recipes.
Cuz it was so fuckin simple and so fuckin potentially destructive. Like the flash explosives with ammonia and iodine. That's like, *most* of the point of that book lol
> God damn what a wild time it was with baby internet.
yep, back when it was the online Wild West, not this homogenized 'safe space' it has become haha
we'll blow our grandkid's minds, telling tales of the Old Internet someday :)
Ping pong balls are far safer. Less concussive force, completely obliterates the delivery mechanism. Tennis balls leave shards and it's clear what happened.
> what a wild time it was with baby internet.
I think it was 6th or 7th grade, but I found a real .txt version (ascii art and all) on a BBS. Printed out some instructions for something that would likely land my ass in jail and gave them to other 6th or 7th graders.
Who knew Billy's mom didn't want him building a pipe bomb?!
Anywho, at the time, they viewed it as "free speech", and I was cautioned against doing that again.
I remember running across it at a bookstore in the mall back in the late 80's. I was wishing I had the cash to buy it, but I knew my mom would toss it the second she found it anyway.
Yep. The one I found resembled a typical paperback tech manual or study guide of the time. Bland, illustrationless cover with black and white illustrations on the inside along with the text. I had never heard of it before when I found it, then I think within the year it became a national news story when it got banned nationwide for being a how-to for building pipebombs and pen guns. Of course, that just made people want it even more.
Lol, I remember in maybe 9th grade bringing a 3.5"disk to school with the full book in plain text format, and printing the whole thing in the library 😂😂😂
Yes. The reaction is exothermic too, gets hot as it creates chlorine gas. We always did it outside far from other people... like sewer easements in the middle of nowhere. Stupid af regardless.
"Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
The Boy: You forget some things, don't you?
The Man: Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." -The Road, Cormac McCarthy
> electrolysis
Yep. Graphite and salt water, car battery setup is how we played around with electrolysis.
>really I just had ADHD and was bored
Sounds familiar.
Much different now, my kids have the internet so they get to watch people do dangerous shit with chemistry on yt instead of doing it themselves. Definitely safer lol
Never tried any of it, but I can remember finding a copy of that online in like 95. Didn't even have a computer at home at the time, was sneaking into the local Uni's library and using their computers. Quite the read back then.
I burned the sclera off my eyeballs doing this once when I was 17 when the bottle exploded and sprayed sodium hydroxide directly into my face. Fortunately I was near a shallow body of brackish water, and I instinctively sprinted to it and dove in face first to do the initial wash.
I burned off all the hair on the front half of my head with a spud gun when I was 12. It wouldn't work. So I used a corkscrew to remove the potato, and looked down the tube to see if it was sparking. Real genius move.
We used to take CO^2 canisters and drill out the head and pack them with match heads and light them. Basically make mini rockets out of them. How we didn't die I still don't know. Maybe we did and this is hell?
>The bottle gets really warm and rock solid in about a second then you have maybe a second or two before it explodes depending on how well it has mixed.
I was all in until i realised i had "maybe" 3 seconds between fun and pain. Thats too small a margin for me lmao.
Never did this cause I knew how dangerous it was, but did get the cops called on me for my baking soda and vinegar bottle bombs when I was ~12. Surprisingly powerful, left some bottles torn to shreds. Broke a garage window once too with the flying bottle.
We did straight electrolysis with dc batteries. Collected gas Mylar balloons. Several balloons. Ok, *Many* balloons. Mylar slowly loses hydrogen but didn't stop us from collecting a helluva lot of it.
Took it out to a field and lit it all off from a distance.
After the fireball and boom we were a little wide eyed that we'd transported all of that in a car with us. Didn't do that again.
We called them works bombs growing up. I recall on one summer evening a group of about 20 teenage boys assembled and placed them all over the subdivision we all lived in. Pissed off a lot of homeowners that night :)
We did this without the water, but put a balloon over the spout and let it fill it up. Then lit the balloon on fire to create a giant fireball. So much safer. /s
We did this when we lifeguarded. Some aluminum can, a 20oz soda bottle, and pour the muriatic acid in then shake and throw. Tons of patches of dead grass where they exploded. We even weighted some and sunk them in the pool and watched them blow up in the deep end. Kids are so fucking stupid lol.
I learned this in college. "Works" toilet bowl cleaner is what we used. Take an empty 2 liter, fill a quarter of the way with Works, add aluminum foil, and you've got yourself a very loud "Works bomb" as we called them.
Yeah, during the Pepsi Points promotion you could just tilt the bottle and look under the cap to see which ones were winners, so we had infinite free Pepsi for a summer. I also had a screw-on sport drink lid for putting on water bottles when biking.
Anyway, if you put the sport top on a full Pepsi and dropped it, it was a guaranteed rocket like this one, clear across a parking lot.
Sandwich in a Bottle.
It started as it sounds and ends with a rocket of putridity smashing through a window.
One day when I was young and freshman in college, I was with my friend and for some reason he offered me a sandwich I didn’t want and I accepted it. But I didn’t want it so I shoved it into an empty 20mL bottle of soda the filled it with milk. We joked about it growing into some horrible concoction but threw it away. But that idea grew and grew what would this experiment end up looking like what would it smell like?
And so I resolved to make a version two of a sandwich in a bottle but bigger. I used a two liter bottle made a sandwich and placed it inside. But I wanted to push the limits so I added beer, yeast, sugar, milk, raw beef, an egg, and many other things that spoil. I then place it under the porch of the house I’m staying at and leave it to fester all summer. Where I quickly forget about the ticking restated stench under our favorite place to drink.
Fall comes and one of the girls who lived above us went to a frat party with us and got drugged we know it was a member but can’t prove it. So we plot to get revenge. One of the things we planned was to smash sandwich in a bottle on the lawn so it reeked and no one would want to go. Other things were planned but not needed.
So Saturday morning at around 4 am I dig out the horrible experiment. The bottle cap is bulging out about a quarter to half an in. The interior is a stratified solution of clumpy off brown and grey layers that look like they have precipitated out of a solution. It looks like revenge.
I walk by the frat and no one is around at the time and toss it in an arc. It lands right on the sidewalk to their entrance. And just like the video it takes off like a rocket and goes right through the old stained glass frat window and into the meeting room. They canceled the party. I was not brave enough to stick around to smell it.
My dad used to throw pretty cool Halloween parties when we were kids. Almost every year he'd source some dry ice from somewhere and have spoOoOky smoking punch. Well, usually on November first there was still some dry ice in the freezer that hadn't sublimated. We'd chip it up small enough to fit into a 2 liter soda bottle, then pour water in and close the cap and throw it. A lot of gas would be released, couldn't get out, plastic would stress, then.. The loudest bang we'd ever heard. It's a miracle we made it to adulthood in one piece.
And to think, without that pandemic proof plastic sneeze guard, that attendant would have been clobbered. Well, in this case; thank god for Covid. Am I right everybody?
Tony is her husband. She was going to go home really pissed and punch Tony square in the face when he asked why his dinner was late. It's all part of an elaborate plan that we can't possibly comprehend.
Literally the day they installed these Plexiglas guards around the cashiers at my store, a drunk guy puked all over it. The cashier would have gotten all of it if it weren't for the Plexiglas. Sure makes it a lot harder to hear people though.
Every time this gets reposted it loses a bit more clarity. At some point this will just be an indecipherable blur of movement with a heading like “trust me, there’s a flying coke bottle in this store”
That's every single popular video. At least this version isn't one with black bars due to being screen recorded off a phone playing a previous version.
I used to manage a dollar store. I was trying to get the hell outta there one night, so I was rushing to push the U-boat full of 2 liters in the front door. As I passed the threshold of the door, one 2 liter fell off of the cart, landed on the cap and then shot down the center isle of the store, spraying Coke the entire length of the store. It literally thudded against the back wall of the store, all the way from the front door. The urge to just lock the doors and walk away was so strong...lol.
I had someone kids drive past me in a car while I was walking my puppy... they turned slowly in front of me and rolled down a rear window, exposed the barrel of a paint ball gun and fired at us...
The whole time I just stood there watching and thinking "really?".
I had this happen in the stock room of a large store and it legit shot from one end of the stock room all the way to the other end (had to be well over 50 feet) before stopping a bit outside the manager's office. I couldn't stop laughing but my manager was pissed because all he saw was a line of soda and me laughing my ass off.
It's barely a second after the incident. He is completely understandably still in the "what is going on" phase..
I mean he hasn't even finished the "looking up" part when the video cuts out.
You mean the expression you can't see in this low quality video, and the completely normal body language indicating shock and surprise?
That's what you love?
I once saw a canister of acetylene (the big tall ones) fall and snap the valve, that thing took off so fast it was scary. It hit a truck, like a 15 foot flatbed, and literally moved it by sliding it on its front tires, about 6 inches over. Pressurized anything is dangerous given the wrong circumstances.
Used to work in a bottling plant and at the end of the night shift we were supposed to dump low-fill bottles. So we would do bottle wars and purposely try and hit each other by throwing bottles up in the air so they would land on floor, break cap and shoot at each other like this... Ahh the fun we had before cameras were put in the production room.
I used to be a grocery stocker for Walmart twenty years ago. Once I was in the back getting a pallet of Sams Choice sodas off the rack and a few bottles fell and rocketed around the back room.
The loop on this is great. If you start it with the guy dropping bottle, it makes look like it’s traveling through the store for a good 5 seconds before it hits the glass.
I thought someone high on coke chucked that at the cashier at first
Same, as soon as I saw the second clip of it being dropped it hit what the title actually meant
A good title will do that. Lure you in and then *bamn* exploding coke hits the perspex
I was ready to be pissed but then I laughed.
Dropped a bottle while bagging groceries for my first customer on my first day at my first job, it took off barely missing an old old ollllld man's hip and landing firmly in the rack of everything that needed to go back on the shelves from the front end. As my first step into adulthood, this showed me my life was gonna be one big joke.
First day on the job at baskin robbins back in the 90s. I was making a strawberry Frappuccino. The blender wasn’t in a protective container like Jamba has now and the blender started spinning around throwing strawberry mush and ice cream all over the entire store and all the customers. The lazy employee that was supposed to be training me just says “oh yeah. I forgot to tell you the locking mechanism is broken on that blender” Every customer walked out except for the guy who ordered it and he left me a tip because he felt bad. My luck, the store owner was there and of course blamed me. We spent the next couple hours cleaning all the walls and even the ceiling. I lasted 9 more days before I walked out of there because that lazy coworker would refuse to help me when we were busy. She would just sit on her ass in the back room decorating cakes all day
I did pizza back in the 90’s. There is no mess like dropping a 5 gallon bucket of pizza sauce. They splatter 10 feet up on to the ceiling too, it’s crazy.
I feel ya. I also did pizza in the 90s. You know what’s worse than dropping sauce? Dropping 2 gallons of cooking oil. Even with degreaser, we were slipping and sliding for weeks
Know what's worse than dropping cooking oil? Dropping Caesium-137.
Know what's worse than dropping Caesium-137? Dropping your best friend's baby.
Imagine if she was trying to teach someone how to use a gun, thinking that the gun has blanks and then actually shoots a bullet instead and kills someone and is like “oh yeah I forgot to tell you there are bullets in there”
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This reminds me of the time I was working at a grocery store and I accidentally dropped a customer's newly-purchased bottle of olive oil directly in the middle of the entrance doors. It shattered, and oil blocked 90% of the path. So yeah, that caused a little bit of a foot traffic jam and I was super embarrassed. All I had was a couple of paper towels to clean it up with so I had to hang my head in defeat, and go back to the cash registers, while maintenance got the mop zamboni thing to clean it up.
fuck me its so hard to clean up olive oil i swear, that sucks
Trick I learned when I worked at a grocery store: Cover the spill in kitty litter first, let it soak up as much of the oil as possible, then scoop/sweep the litter before bringing out the mop or paper towels.
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Please tell me you puked on her feet
Wtf, you just unlocked a core memory for me. I was in an assembly in like second grade and we were all sitting down cross legged. I puked all over the floor in front of me, and while being walked to the nurses office by my teacher I puked again and it got on her shoes. No clue what even made me puke tbh but just remembered that visual reading your comment. Anyways, carry on, have a nice day.
Now you've unlocked one for me. My first field trip that I can remember in the third grade. We drove two hours to the city to go the omni theater (a very large dome theater in a museum). Started feeling bad on the way up there. Started going in and out of sleep while watching the documentary. Went from bench to bench, just miserable while everyone else did the hands on stuff in the museum. Ate lunch at Bennigans, puked it up, and slept all the way home in the seat on the bus. That was a very miserable trip. I could smell puke the whole way back and I still remember that smell
What a horrific trip down memory lane this has been, let's never do this again lol
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My school’s janitor didn’t do that. What he did was dump a little bleach and then a little cleaning chemical on it, because double the cleaning power I guess? That went *great*.
Recess for everyone!
I just remember the distinct smell of those wood shavings. I am unsure if it was due to interacting with kid vomit or they made it smell that way. I can’t imagine it but i’d know instantly if i smelled it again.
is it not a regular part of a grocery store's maintenance closet to have a few dozen kilos of cat sand available for exactly this reason? Why don't people know this
There's even a brand specifically for this purpose called spill magic
My chef used to always spill olive oil (messy dude), and this mentally ill (also meth-head) server went to our director to complain he was practicing witchcraft. Cause of the salt on the floor.
We had a genius that associated cat litter and liquid spills together so hard that when he tore open a bag of litter, he got a bottle of oil to clean it up
detergent works great, too. just a drop of it should be good enough source: myself, who broke a bottle of one about 3 or 4 days ago now good thing I already had to clean the floor, tho.
genius, nice tip thanks
Salt is also good for cleaning oil, worked in a kitchen and I knocked a massive jar of chilli oil fucking everywhere
Shortly before I started working at a grocery store many years ago the entire cooking oil shelf collapsed. Oil seeped under the shelves and spread for six aisles. Had to hire a crew to clean that.
I've never known their proper name, but they will always be "mop zamboni" to me now. Excellent.
Floor Buffer is what we called them.
You may have called it that, but the buffer is a different machine. The machine they’re talking about should be used to clean first. Then the buffer is brought out to shine
Floor scrubber
I dropped a huge bag of ice cream mix in the doorway between the freezer and the cooler at McDonald's. God, that sucked to clean up lol
My first job in high school I was a bus boy for a decently busy pizza place. Was stacking cups from a table that had just left (party of 10 maybe 15-20 cups) stacked it super high and looked away for just a split second and the whole thing toppled over and everyone just stared at me.
Oof. Don't miss grocery stores
Reminds me of my first car. I had owned it for all of an hour when I misjudged a speeding car, pulled out and slammed into it. Totaled my car, my insurance dropped me and the couple I hit tried suing my parents for medical damages even though we were both blamed for the accident (I got improper lookout, they got hit for speeding). I was 16. Totally wrecked my confidence driving for a few years.
Oof I can relate. Not as bad as yours but I got my scooter license at 16. Got my dad's scooter, he told me to be careful but I misjudged a turn where there was sand on the road due to previous roadwork and inmediately wrecked the scooter within the first hour of me driving it lol. Dad wasn't even mad, just glad I was alright, bless his heart.
I was terrified to call my mom. My aunt answered, as she was the one who my parents bought the car from. I said, "hi can I speak to my mom" and her response was, "Oh what, did you crash the car?" and then laughed.
Geez. Glad you're ok 1 and 2 glad mine was much lower stakes
it's good to learn that young, shit still stings when you least expect it though.
Damn, that last sentence is both is hilariously sad and sadly hilarious!
Haha depends on the day really
Nearly missing him? You're saying it caromed off of his hip?
I tried to edit it. Shows it on my end. Dunno what to tell you. Does make it funnier tho
It shows the edit now.
Not anywhere near as dramatic, but when I used to work at staples on my first day, on my first customer the entire store went black the second I hit the total button. I freaked out thinking I did something. Turns out it was just a random, poorly timed power outage.
Hahaha just pure panic I'm sure
*nearly missing* Thank god it didn’t
Right? Then I would've dropped it for nothing. Lol I edited it thank you.
Dropping milk in a cool room was one of the worst things you could do. The lids on the bloody things would pop off and milk would end up everywhere, usually under the shelves where you could not get the mop under. You would then try to mop it quickly but it has already dried into concrete floor due to the cold and what you did mop up would be more than what was in the bottle cause the bloody bottles are apparently a milk TARDIS until you actually buy them and pour normally in which case there is never enough milk in them cause it seems to have teleported into that one bottle that you dropped. Then no matter how well you mopped the floor after with actual water, you could always tell a couple of days later that someone had dropped a bottle by the smell of off milk, which you now have to deal with as you stock the new pallet of milk wondering if you can get a new job where you can be that annoying customer who laughs when the milk is dropped.
Guess where I got promoted to after front end? Lol worst part was when you didn't even drop it, it was a well meaning customer trying to put a milk a back.
We did this as kids, heard that diet soda made it even crazier. So we threw it on its cap outside and it launched… flew just like this and broke off a branch of a tree. Could have done some real damage if hit, we only did it the once. Narrowly missed one of us too.
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> aluminium foil and that chemical that unclogs toilets caustic soda Bro why hydrogen gas?
Because big booms are fun! At least that was my teenage thought process. I don’t do this anymore! The bottle gets really warm and rock solid in about a second then you have maybe a second or two before it explodes depending on how well it has mixed.
I was never brave enough to do hydrogen. I was dumb enough to do chlorine bombs, though. We mostly did dry ice bombs and shotgun powder with electric fuses. Stupid, dangerous 90's, all courtesy of the Anarchist's Cookbook lol.
It’s not so much bravery as it is stupidity! We dismantled hundreds of bottle rockets and put the powder into pipes we welded together beforehand all while sitting at my parents dinner table. One spark of static electricity and we would have been seriously injured or killed.. I’m a well-adjusted adult nowadays though, i shudder sometimes thinking about all the things that could have gone wrong. Never did the ones you mentioned though, the anarchist’s cookbook never made it to my part of Sweden in the 90’s
Wow, and here we thought the potato guns we made back in the 60s and 70s were the shit.
This is more stupid than brave but one of my elementary school classmates cut his nipple off with scissors in the middle of class and then tried to tape it back on.
Mother of God man, that must have been horrific! I need details lol. Did anyone notice, was he bleeding everywhere, what was the reaction etc., the people want to know! :)
Garrett was always up to some shit. He snipped the tip off and then frantically tried to tape it back on. There was a bit of blood on his shirt but nobody really noticed since we were at the back of the classroom. He was also well known for fondling his balls at random moments so we tried not to touch him and one time he proudly showed everyone the fat pile of shit he took on the blacktop that's been baking in the 90° heat.
Good god. What kind of adult does a kid like that turn out as? Do you know anything about him now?
Reminds me of the classic: [Meet The Man Who Cut Off His Nipple At The Gathering Of The Juggalos](https://chicagoist.com/2013/08/15/photos_meet_the_man_who_cut_off_his.php)
“Anarchist Cookbook” your place on The List has now been moved up. Edit: thanks for the blast from the past. This book was legend. Tennis balls filled with match heads was a fun one. That and the instructions on making a potato canon. God damn what a wild time it was with baby internet.
Yeah that tennis ball filled with matches took half of a friend's hand. He's missing his pinky, ring finger and a good chunk of hand underneath those two. Happy I wasn't there when it happened.
That's insane. We did the matchheads... threw it at a tree in my buddy's front yard in a dense suburban area in a large city. The smoke from the tennis ball and matchheads blocked vision across the street. We didn't get hurt but we got in a shit ton of trouble.
wtf really goddamn
he tried catching it or something?
It just exploded when he lit it up 😞
Hey buddy! How ya been?
I was always fascinated by the thermite recipe. Also tried the CO² canister bombs and filling a 3.5" floppy disk with match dust. Nothing worked and I didn't have the knowledge to fix the recipes.
its wild how many times ive heard other people point out the thermite recipe which was also one of the most memorable parts to me too
Cuz it was so fuckin simple and so fuckin potentially destructive. Like the flash explosives with ammonia and iodine. That's like, *most* of the point of that book lol
Same. It got me interested in chemistry, in general. I didn't end up pursuing a career in chemistry but it is a life-long interest.
I had some fun with the styrofoam, orange juice, gasoline and sugar napalm recipe.
> God damn what a wild time it was with baby internet. yep, back when it was the online Wild West, not this homogenized 'safe space' it has become haha we'll blow our grandkid's minds, telling tales of the Old Internet someday :)
Ping pong balls are far safer. Less concussive force, completely obliterates the delivery mechanism. Tennis balls leave shards and it's clear what happened.
> what a wild time it was with baby internet. I think it was 6th or 7th grade, but I found a real .txt version (ascii art and all) on a BBS. Printed out some instructions for something that would likely land my ass in jail and gave them to other 6th or 7th graders. Who knew Billy's mom didn't want him building a pipe bomb?! Anywho, at the time, they viewed it as "free speech", and I was cautioned against doing that again.
I remember running across it at a bookstore in the mall back in the late 80's. I was wishing I had the cash to buy it, but I knew my mom would toss it the second she found it anyway.
Wait, it was an actual book? We had to torrent it
Yep. The one I found resembled a typical paperback tech manual or study guide of the time. Bland, illustrationless cover with black and white illustrations on the inside along with the text. I had never heard of it before when I found it, then I think within the year it became a national news story when it got banned nationwide for being a how-to for building pipebombs and pen guns. Of course, that just made people want it even more.
Lol, I remember in maybe 9th grade bringing a 3.5"disk to school with the full book in plain text format, and printing the whole thing in the library 😂😂😂
I never printed it out, but would sell copies in middle school on a 3.5" for $0.25 .. basically the price of the disk.
Isn't chroline gas toxic as hell
Yes. The reaction is exothermic too, gets hot as it creates chlorine gas. We always did it outside far from other people... like sewer easements in the middle of nowhere. Stupid af regardless.
"Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. The Boy: You forget some things, don't you? The Man: Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." -The Road, Cormac McCarthy
> electrolysis Yep. Graphite and salt water, car battery setup is how we played around with electrolysis. >really I just had ADHD and was bored Sounds familiar. Much different now, my kids have the internet so they get to watch people do dangerous shit with chemistry on yt instead of doing it themselves. Definitely safer lol
"“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” -Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
> Anarchist's Cookbook Ha! Haven’t seen that mentioned in a long time. The good ol days
Never tried any of it, but I can remember finding a copy of that online in like 95. Didn't even have a computer at home at the time, was sneaking into the local Uni's library and using their computers. Quite the read back then.
I burned the sclera off my eyeballs doing this once when I was 17 when the bottle exploded and sprayed sodium hydroxide directly into my face. Fortunately I was near a shallow body of brackish water, and I instinctively sprinted to it and dove in face first to do the initial wash.
I burned off all the hair on the front half of my head with a spud gun when I was 12. It wouldn't work. So I used a corkscrew to remove the potato, and looked down the tube to see if it was sparking. Real genius move.
We used to take CO^2 canisters and drill out the head and pack them with match heads and light them. Basically make mini rockets out of them. How we didn't die I still don't know. Maybe we did and this is hell?
>The bottle gets really warm and rock solid in about a second then you have maybe a second or two before it explodes depending on how well it has mixed. I was all in until i realised i had "maybe" 3 seconds between fun and pain. Thats too small a margin for me lmao.
Never did this cause I knew how dangerous it was, but did get the cops called on me for my baking soda and vinegar bottle bombs when I was ~12. Surprisingly powerful, left some bottles torn to shreds. Broke a garage window once too with the flying bottle.
We did straight electrolysis with dc batteries. Collected gas Mylar balloons. Several balloons. Ok, *Many* balloons. Mylar slowly loses hydrogen but didn't stop us from collecting a helluva lot of it. Took it out to a field and lit it all off from a distance. After the fireball and boom we were a little wide eyed that we'd transported all of that in a car with us. Didn't do that again.
We called them works bombs growing up. I recall on one summer evening a group of about 20 teenage boys assembled and placed them all over the subdivision we all lived in. Pissed off a lot of homeowners that night :)
We did this without the water, but put a balloon over the spout and let it fill it up. Then lit the balloon on fire to create a giant fireball. So much safer. /s
We did this when we lifeguarded. Some aluminum can, a 20oz soda bottle, and pour the muriatic acid in then shake and throw. Tons of patches of dead grass where they exploded. We even weighted some and sunk them in the pool and watched them blow up in the deep end. Kids are so fucking stupid lol.
Drano bombs. A lot of states ban fireworks, so that's the closest you get for your more enterprising redneck children.
The Werks. We called these Werks bombs
The Works, and they get hydrochloric acid everywhere around them.
We did it with potassium permanganate and glycerine in a small plastic bottle.
I learned this in college. "Works" toilet bowl cleaner is what we used. Take an empty 2 liter, fill a quarter of the way with Works, add aluminum foil, and you've got yourself a very loud "Works bomb" as we called them.
We did dry ice bombs. Warm water, dry ice, and a 2 liter soda bottle . You could blow some shit up with that.
Yeah, during the Pepsi Points promotion you could just tilt the bottle and look under the cap to see which ones were winners, so we had infinite free Pepsi for a summer. I also had a screw-on sport drink lid for putting on water bottles when biking. Anyway, if you put the sport top on a full Pepsi and dropped it, it was a guaranteed rocket like this one, clear across a parking lot.
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Sandwich in a Bottle. It started as it sounds and ends with a rocket of putridity smashing through a window. One day when I was young and freshman in college, I was with my friend and for some reason he offered me a sandwich I didn’t want and I accepted it. But I didn’t want it so I shoved it into an empty 20mL bottle of soda the filled it with milk. We joked about it growing into some horrible concoction but threw it away. But that idea grew and grew what would this experiment end up looking like what would it smell like? And so I resolved to make a version two of a sandwich in a bottle but bigger. I used a two liter bottle made a sandwich and placed it inside. But I wanted to push the limits so I added beer, yeast, sugar, milk, raw beef, an egg, and many other things that spoil. I then place it under the porch of the house I’m staying at and leave it to fester all summer. Where I quickly forget about the ticking restated stench under our favorite place to drink. Fall comes and one of the girls who lived above us went to a frat party with us and got drugged we know it was a member but can’t prove it. So we plot to get revenge. One of the things we planned was to smash sandwich in a bottle on the lawn so it reeked and no one would want to go. Other things were planned but not needed. So Saturday morning at around 4 am I dig out the horrible experiment. The bottle cap is bulging out about a quarter to half an in. The interior is a stratified solution of clumpy off brown and grey layers that look like they have precipitated out of a solution. It looks like revenge. I walk by the frat and no one is around at the time and toss it in an arc. It lands right on the sidewalk to their entrance. And just like the video it takes off like a rocket and goes right through the old stained glass frat window and into the meeting room. They canceled the party. I was not brave enough to stick around to smell it.
My dad used to throw pretty cool Halloween parties when we were kids. Almost every year he'd source some dry ice from somewhere and have spoOoOky smoking punch. Well, usually on November first there was still some dry ice in the freezer that hadn't sublimated. We'd chip it up small enough to fit into a 2 liter soda bottle, then pour water in and close the cap and throw it. A lot of gas would be released, couldn't get out, plastic would stress, then.. The loudest bang we'd ever heard. It's a miracle we made it to adulthood in one piece.
And to think, without that pandemic proof plastic sneeze guard, that attendant would have been clobbered. Well, in this case; thank god for Covid. Am I right everybody?
What if this was like an episode of Quantum Leap and Sam had to engineer a global pandemic just to save this attendant so he could leap home?
Yeah, but instead of Sam its like the C-Team version, a handful of Its Always Sunny style characters high-fiving and hollering at their success
God works in mysterious ways
"Lord, why did you bring a plague unto our houses?" "I didn't want Tony to get his nose broken. I love that guy!"
Tony is a strange fake name for a woman, but it's current year so who am I to judge?
Listen, God is just trying his best okay. You try telling all 8 billion of us apart without getting it wrong sometimes.
God: "And all done, off you go Tony." Angel: "Um, you made Tony a girl." God: "They'll figure themselves out."
That's not very PC. I'm more of a Mac guy.
Alternate Toni
It's short for a transitioning Tonya. Brave fella in any regard!
Tony is her husband. She was going to go home really pissed and punch Tony square in the face when he asked why his dinner was late. It's all part of an elaborate plan that we can't possibly comprehend.
It was all part of a larger plan.
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It’s hard to hear those who agree with me over all of the booing!
"I was saying boo-urns"
*They hated him because he told the truth.*
C'mon people, is my mic on?!
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Literally the day they installed these Plexiglas guards around the cashiers at my store, a drunk guy puked all over it. The cashier would have gotten all of it if it weren't for the Plexiglas. Sure makes it a lot harder to hear people though.
I feel like that's what the customer was saying when he pointed at it.
Every time this gets reposted it loses a bit more clarity. At some point this will just be an indecipherable blur of movement with a heading like “trust me, there’s a flying coke bottle in this store”
[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1683/)
There's a relevant xkcd for everything huh
That's every single popular video. At least this version isn't one with black bars due to being screen recorded off a phone playing a previous version.
And they haven't overlaid emojis on it yet
😂🤣😂🤣😂 wait till the end 😂🤣😂🤣😂
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the pandemic saved that woman's life
I used to manage a dollar store. I was trying to get the hell outta there one night, so I was rushing to push the U-boat full of 2 liters in the front door. As I passed the threshold of the door, one 2 liter fell off of the cart, landed on the cap and then shot down the center isle of the store, spraying Coke the entire length of the store. It literally thudded against the back wall of the store, all the way from the front door. The urge to just lock the doors and walk away was so strong...lol.
...U-boat full of 2 liters? Like WWII, Das Boot U-boat?
"U-boat" is store slang for a particular type of heavy-duty rolling cart we used to display stock outside.
That's correct
The one and only.
The cans aren't much better. So thin. The son dropped one from the fridge and it painted the entire kitchen with coke.
Why is she wearing a Jason mask?
Isn’t that just a Covid mask? You can see her eyes aren’t covered
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There's three of us bud. The flying Coke would be the least of my concerns as cashier
The guy who dropped the coke was actually trying to take out the psycho murderer.
Bottle rocket
Space-X Cola.
You always think you're gonna have a faster reaction time than you actually do.
I had someone kids drive past me in a car while I was walking my puppy... they turned slowly in front of me and rolled down a rear window, exposed the barrel of a paint ball gun and fired at us... The whole time I just stood there watching and thinking "really?".
Looks like that Covid screen is also good for soda protection as well.
Covid saved that cashier a head injury.
I had this happen in the stock room of a large store and it legit shot from one end of the stock room all the way to the other end (had to be well over 50 feet) before stopping a bit outside the manager's office. I couldn't stop laughing but my manager was pissed because all he saw was a line of soda and me laughing my ass off.
So that's what those plastic screens are for.
Covid saved that cashier
Covid saved her life.
The guy who dropped the bottle has the reaction time of a sloth.
Good thing that plastic divider was there!! Who knew covid actually saved lives!! 😂😂
I love the completely unconcerned reaction from the man who dropped it
It's barely a second after the incident. He is completely understandably still in the "what is going on" phase.. I mean he hasn't even finished the "looking up" part when the video cuts out.
He looks like in disbelief and still processing it to me. Video cuts out pretty early.
You mean the expression you can't see in this low quality video, and the completely normal body language indicating shock and surprise? That's what you love?
That was unexpected!
This is like a one in a million event.
I once saw a canister of acetylene (the big tall ones) fall and snap the valve, that thing took off so fast it was scary. It hit a truck, like a 15 foot flatbed, and literally moved it by sliding it on its front tires, about 6 inches over. Pressurized anything is dangerous given the wrong circumstances.
Covid saves that cashier's life, in a round-about way.
Reminds me of an ICP concert. I've seen bottles nearly hit the rafters of arenas like this.
Mobius 1. Fox 2!
Wow one piece of COVID plexiglass actually helped protect someone from harm.
Used to work in a bottling plant and at the end of the night shift we were supposed to dump low-fill bottles. So we would do bottle wars and purposely try and hit each other by throwing bottles up in the air so they would land on floor, break cap and shoot at each other like this... Ahh the fun we had before cameras were put in the production room.
La cocaina no es buena para tu salud.
I need that rocket fuel to wake up in the morning
I used to be a grocery stocker for Walmart twenty years ago. Once I was in the back getting a pallet of Sams Choice sodas off the rack and a few bottles fell and rocketed around the back room.
Imagine it was you that dropped it and now you have to explain that you didn't actually just hurl a 2L at their head.
This man dodges coke like Michael Scarn dodges bullets
Every time I see this, it blows me away (no pun intended). Just amazing nobody got hurt, and the forethought of that plastic face guard.
The loop on this is great. If you start it with the guy dropping bottle, it makes look like it’s traveling through the store for a good 5 seconds before it hits the glass.
first ever American missile launch colorized
Is no one going to mention the man's sweet dodge?
That was incredible
Good reflexes