Just some kids playing with explosives

[baller21]

Teens in Dallas County responsible for explosion heard miles away, authorities say

The sheriff’s department said it received multiple calls regarding an explosion around 8 p.m.

www.kcci.com

Is tannerite not controlled like other explosives? Letting kids play with this stuff seems like a bad idea.

 

[MeowingCows]

Guessing they bought a whole bunch of it and put it all into one big container. It doesn't mess around in large batches, I've seen it leave a crater in a cornfield before... while inside a dryer.... parts of which flew hundreds of feet away.

I think you have to be 18 to buy it (it's relatively inexpensive), but no meaningful regulation past that exists that I can recall.

 

[1100011CS]

I'd guess something like this they combined several into one: https://www.theisens.com/products/1-lb-exploding-rifle-target/

 

[madguy30]

Around middle school one birthday party I went to included a BB gun war (dumb) and lighting off aerosol cans from a fire that left a fire ball/trail in the air that the hosts' sister could see from her car on the highway about 3 miles away.

It's kind of incredible that no one got hurt and that the fire department wasn't at least sent out.

No, there wasn't much going on for supervision.

 

[JM4CY]

This is the kind of thing I absolutely would of screwed around with as a kid... and I would admit I was complete moron now for doing so.

 

[1100011CS]

This is the kind of thing I absolutely would of screwed around with as a kid... and I would admit I was complete moron now for doing so.

Yeah, I was going to say it sounds kinda fun and relatively safe if they're shooting with a rifle a good distance away.

 

[MeowingCows]

Yeah, I was going to say it sounds kinda fun and relatively safe if they're shooting with a rifle a good distance away.

It's not real harmful in small amounts, but it ratchets up pretty quick in large amounts. I've done a pretty big bang with it before, but even that didn't get the cops called on us from separate towns miles away.

Only took us about 5lbs to send parts of an old appliance 200-300ft away and leave a ~10ft round crater in the ground.

 

[Isualum13]

Teens in Dallas County responsible for explosion heard miles away, authorities say

The sheriff’s department said it received multiple calls regarding an explosion around 8 p.m.

www.kcci.com

Is tannerite not controlled like other explosives? Letting kids play with this stuff seems like a bad idea.

Need to be 18 to buy it. Only need a license if it is used for commercial purposes. It is a relatively safe explosive as it can only be ignited with a bullet travelling over 2,000 ft per second. Heat does nothing. It is a two part explosive which each part on their own is stable.

As with anything misusing it is when people get hurt. Like the idiot who used it to blow up an old lawn mower and the hood flew back and severed his leg because he was way to close when shooting. The article seems to imply they didn't do anything stupid.

It is incredibly loud, much louder than the gun shooting it, so I could see why a person unfamiliar would be concerned if they heard someone shooting guns and then heard an explosion.

 

[Cyballz]

they're lucky they didn't blow themselves up, some kids in 1983 weren't so lucky...

On November 20, 1983, an explosion of an explosives storage bunker just south of Pleasant Hill occurred. Reports were that two teenagers were hunting around the area. One of the teenagers may have shot a bullet from a hill which penetrated the bunker ceiling, which was deemed the probable cause of the explosion. The two teenagers were killed in the explosion, leaving only small pieces of shirts. The explosion was felt 45 miles away from the site. At least 25 homes within a one-mile radius of the explosion suffered damage, doors and windows were blown out, ceilings fell and houses were knocked off their foundations, police said. One house, 300 yards directly up the valley from the shack, suffered an inch-wide crack the entire width of its basement wall.

 

[Isualum13]

they're lucky they didn't blow themselves up, some kids in 1983 weren't so lucky...

On November 20, 1983, an explosion of an explosives storage bunker just south of Pleasant Hill occurred. Reports were that two teenagers were hunting around the area. One of the teenagers may have shot a bullet from a hill which penetrated the bunker ceiling, which was deemed the probable cause of the explosion. The two teenagers were killed in the explosion, leaving only small pieces of shirts. The explosion was felt 45 miles away from the site. At least 25 homes within a one-mile radius of the explosion suffered damage, doors and windows were blown out, ceilings fell and houses were knocked off their foundations, police said. One house, 300 yards directly up the valley from the shack, suffered an inch-wide crack the entire width of its basement wall.

There is a pretty large difference between a storage bunker with 12.5 tons of dynamite compared to a container of tannerite.

 

[DSMCy]

In high school we used to fill a coffee can with gasoline, light the top and shoot it with a 22.
We thought that made a big explosion...

 

[cyclonedave25]

If you’re going to blow things up, always stand behind something to use as a shield. Fridge guy, good. Lawnmower guy, bad.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

 

[isufbcurt]

Isn't that the stuff Joe Exotic used?

 

[BryceC]

I knew a guy from southern Iowa that any time he could ahold of an appliance the first thing that was happening was he was going out to the middle of nowhere with it, a rifle, tannerite, and a camera. Every time.

 

[SECyclone]

The little green propane tanks and fireworks put on a nice show too!

 

[cowboycurtis]

Wasn’t there a lady near Knoxville killed in a gender reveal that involved tannerite. Happened a year or 2 ago.

 

[cycloner29]

Used to wrap newspapers around aerosol cans and throw them in a burn barrel. Lots of confetti. Helped an uncle blow out a beaver dam with dynamite.

 

[JM4CY]

Potato guns, alcohol and Roman candles. It’s seriously so damn lucky I still have both eyes and all my fingers.

 

[FOREVERTRUE]

Wasn’t there a lady near Knoxville killed in a gender reveal that involved tannerite. Happened a year or 2 ago.

If I remember right they actually made a pipe bomb out of it. Tannerite actually makes gender reveal targets, but that family decided to make their own.