Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I had almost that exact same thing happen to me. Found a big snapping turtle in the middle of the road, picked it up so it wouldn't get run over. Fortunately, I was holding it near the back, hands on either side of it's tail. It whipped its head around to bite me, and missed by what had to be less than an inch. Somehow I didn't drop it but now when I see a turtle in the road I give it the finger.

Eponine posted:

I used to kind of lightly press on the back of their shells with my foot when I found turtles in the road. They usually started to scoot and couldn't get to my tasty, tasty fingers.

mind the walrus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq-qngvz9N0

Indolent Bastard posted:

Drops battery into glass
Drops glass

gender illusionist posted:

I think the glass cracked. I bet he had a hell of a time trying to put that out.

mind the walrus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq-qngvz9N0

gender illusionist posted:

I think the glass cracked. I bet he had a hell of a time trying to put that out.

Indolent Bastard posted:

You do tend to drop a glass when it blows up in your hand.

Atmus posted:

Did you ever manage to do the thing where you got unlimited 1-ups?

LawfulWaffle posted:

"I'm just going to use all of it and see what happens."

It's like the high school graduates' version of "Hold my beer and watch this."

bobjr posted:

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I remember one year the Christmas Eve present that I opened was a chemistry set. It was only minutes later that my mom regretted it, as I made a stinkbomb by heating sulfur and candle wax (it was one of the simpler recipes).

Solice Kirsk posted:

The first thing I did was mix absolutely every chemical that had a "Danger" or "Flammable" notice on it. All it did was make a bad smelling grey/blue mess that was not flammable and stained the garage floor. Good old science!

Carbon dioxide posted:

This reminds me of the new science/chem building at univ. At some point, something, a small controlled fire from an experiment or something, triggered a smoke alarm which set off automatic sprinklers. Everyone ran out - but they forgot that there was still a block of sodium metal sitting in the open, which they were just getting ready for some other experiment. Oops.

syscall girl posted:

Ahahaha awesome.

If they have to put up warnings for firefighters why on earth do they have sprinklers up in there?

Gaunab posted:

Where's the rest of it? I want to see him kick the clown's rear end.

Hydrocodone posted:

Reminds me of a story my high school science professor once told my class. It may be stdh.txt but he was a pretty strange guy and I believe him.

He told us that when he was an undergrad, he had screwed up the timing for a lab experiment and so was in the lab alone, very late, repeating the work correctly. He was wandering the lab's storage rooms while waiting for a sample to finish a long round in the oven or something and came across a large jar containing a solid in some kind of greenish fluid. The label identified it as a kilogram of sodium. At this point I'll quote him: "So I stole it."

He brought it back to his dorm, which was shaped like a very square letter C or like an unused staple, and they built a snowman in the middle of the dorm lawn where it was overlooked on three sides by people's rooms. On top of the snowman went the jar of sodium. And then they threw things at it.

He admitted that it took them quite a while to land any direct hits and even longer to actually break it, but eventually they managed and the fluid started oozing out and down the snowman. After a minute, enough had drained out to let the sodium actually contact the snow and a sudden spout of flame came firing out of it at an angle! Everyone was entertained for a bit. But it grew to be several feet long rather quickly and then was joined by a second fire. Everyone was getting pretty worried now and someone called the fire department.

The fire department has a particular way of dealing with fires, a way they pretty much always employ. But that way made the sodium actually explode.

He said the ultimate consequences were he and his roommate being put on probation for the rest of their academic careers, something he had to talk his way INTO because the first plan was to kick them out. And they had known it was him for two reasons. His roommate had thrown a book with his name on it and every window facing the explosion had shattered except for theirs, because it was cold but they had opened it to throw things.

PhazonLink posted:

Any Chem. dept. worth their salts should have alarms going off regularly and ignored most of the time.

Also you guys must be slightly older since you had "real" chem kits.

Solice Kirsk posted:

I grew up in a golden time when parents were just out of touch enough that you could get into really fun trouble, but close enough that you wouldn't usually wind up dead or on fire (born in 1980). Also I was allowed to play with all those dangerous chemicals when I was like 7 or 8 years old because kids were awesome back then. Also we got to play around with model rockets which are basically fireworks that you can reuse. And toys with small pieces that fit perfectly in our throats but didn't have warning labels because we wouldn't eat our loving toys like idiots. But kids these days with their......<rabble rabble rabble>

Choco1980 posted:

RE: Sodium chat. My high school science teacher had a fun story once. He had a rock of sodium in his classroom for display about the size of a softball, along with all sorts of other displays. One time some boys stole it and decided to throw it in the toilet in the bathroom...and were disappointed when nothing happened, so they left the bathroom. See, the thing had been sitting for years and had a layer of all sorts of stuff on it, from oxidization to oils and dirt from being handled. This took a while for the water to soak through. About fifteen minutes later there was an explosion so big it shook the whole school and there was nothing left of the stall it was put in.

quote:

Police say a man approached a car at a city intersection Monday evening and tried to pull the driver out of his seat with a goal of stealing the vehicle.

But the man's plans went awry — the vehicle was an unmarked police car and the two occupants were undercover officers, who identified themselves and then arrested the man.

Goldskull posted:

In High School there was a kid called Sandy about 5 years older than me who had 2 fingers on one hand. He'd left/graduated by the time I found out why in Science Club from the teacher that took that. He thought it was a good idea to make a firework/rocket out of a copper tube at home knowing what he knew from Chemistry class, and stealing the ingredients. Having hammered one end closed, then filling it with what amounts to gunpowder, he then hammered the other end closed

Hence blowing his fingers off. It pays to take notice in Chemistry of consequences as well as what to take home.

Gaunab posted:

Where's the rest of it? I want to see him kick the clown's rear end.

Goldskull posted:

In High School there was a kid called Sandy about 5 years older than me who had 2 fingers on one hand. He'd left/graduated by the time I found out why in Science Club from the teacher that took that. He thought it was a good idea to make a firework/rocket out of a copper tube at home knowing what he knew from Chemistry class, and stealing the ingredients. Having hammered one end closed, then filling it with what amounts to gunpowder, he then hammered the other end closed

Hence blowing his fingers off. It pays to take notice in Chemistry of consequences as well as what to take home.