Originally Posted By YesImANaturalBlue I live in San Diego and we are getting news reports of an explosion at DTD? Does anyone know anything more?
Originally Posted By YesImANaturalBlue I live in San Diego and we are getting news reports of an explosion at toon town? Does anyone know anything more?
Originally Posted By ksargen Someone posted in another topic - it was a dry ice "bomb" in a trash can. I'm guessing it was someone's idea of fun, since, if you wanted to hurt people, putting it in the trash can wasn't going to do it. Generally stupid behavior. Hunt around, there's more info out there, but from what I read, they cleared the area, called the bomb squad, and watched it go off.
Originally Posted By phruby >>Generally stupid behavior. Hunt around, there's more info out there, but from what I read, they cleared the area, called the bomb squad, and watched it go off. How could they call the bomb squad and watch it go off if the explosion was the reason they called the bomb squad in the first place? Dry ice bombs only take a few minutes to explode depending on the amount of dry ice and the strength/size of the container.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes I bevive the "bobm" went off before they got security into yct.
Originally Posted By schnebs Dumb question for anyone who's ever made one of those dry ice bombs. When they go off, are they really strong enough to be considered an "explosion", or is the description just an exaggeration? It wouldn't seem to me that this thing would be powerful enough to hurt anyone or do any real damage unless you were holding the thing, but I have no personal experience.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 From what I've read, they can be dangerous if a). the container they're in happens to shatter into sharp shards... obviously very possible with glass, less so (though not impossible) with plastic, or b). They are intentionally packed with nails or something MEANT to cause damage. I've also heard they can be very noisy, possibly causing a panic.
Originally Posted By ksargen It's an explosion. You're creating pressure in a sealed container. Once the pressure exceeds the holding capacity of the container, it blows. A small one of these makes a small boom. The bigger the container, and the greater the pressure it can hold, the bigger the boom. For example, folks used to do these in 2 liter soda bottles, which makes an attention grabbing BOOM. What's left is a puddle of water, and shards of plastic bottle. It's impressive what the pressure does to the bottles. I'm guessing this was a smaller one, based on the pictures of the bomb guys looking at the trash for the plastic bits. As for my comment on watching it go boom above - even if they'd called the bomb squad before it went off, all they could have done was watch it go. It's not safe to try to "disable" these, and they're generally small enough not to need to. That said, YES, it had gone off, but they still called the squad to identify what it was. I'm sorry and glad all at once that is was one of these, because they're a lot less trouble than other things that go "boom."
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Oh, and the other danger I read about is to someone's eardrums if it's large enough and the person is close enough.
Originally Posted By ksargen Yep. You'd have to be fairly close for anything 2 liters and under for serious eardrum damage, but, yeah, it can happen. Can you tell I spent WAY too much time hanging out with scientists who blew things up for fun in their spare time?
Originally Posted By berol I've only seen them on youtube. I definitely wouldn't want to be holding one when they go off.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "those dry ice bombs. When they go off, are they really strong enough to be considered an "explosion", or is the description just an exaggeration?" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZHGK37jBp8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...GK37jBp8</a>
Originally Posted By Disney Joy ^ now that's not funny .. no joke to me... do it at your house .. not at DL.
