Do not pick up bottles with liquid

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Sep 12, 2010 | 04:30 PM

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Do not pick up bottles with liquid

This was emailed to me by my father. Be careful of any bottle with partial liquid inside. It will ruin your day.
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Sep 13, 2010 | 12:27 AM

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Thanks for the info. There seems to be no end to the things that buttwipes will try. This gimmick looks quite dangerous.

Sep 13, 2010 | 01:31 AM

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Thanks for posting this, I'm always picking up crap people throw into my yard. I would have never have thought someone would do something like this though. If they would just take the time they use on creating this crap and put it towards something useful like school the world would be a better place.

Sep 13, 2010 | 10:01 AM

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More probable is that those bottles of liquid will have "shake & bake" meth in them. Be VERY wary of looking inside an "abandoned" backpack on the side of the road as well. Meth labs are VERY transportable now, and the chemicals can kill very painfully.

Sep 13, 2010 | 02:20 PM

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From: Prairieville, La

When I was younger, we used to use muriatic acid and aluminum foil in 2 liter coke bottles. It was a significant boom followed by a yellow toxic cloud. My friends dad got so mad at us for killing all the grass on the back 2 acres.

Sep 13, 2010 | 06:59 PM

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From: darrington wash

put one of them bottle bombs next to a fire.. they make a pretty cool flame.. so i hear..

idk why some one would leave something like that just laying in some ones yard though... its just plain old stupid... ive made a few my self.. and if they dont blow up for some reason we pop the bottle with a pellet gun or an arrow and put a few holes in it so we can get close then get rid of the stuff inside and toss the bottle.. (holes make it so the presure cant keep building up)

Sep 15, 2010 | 01:16 PM

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I kinda wonder how they do it that it doesn't blow up right after they put the stuff in there?

Me and a couple coworkers used to do this at work for ****s & giggles...we worked at Sears and there was a dollar tree next door, so we bought aluminum foil & The Works toilet bowl cleaner, and scrounged up some 2 liter bottles. Pour the bottle of works into the 2-liter, roll up the foil into cheese doodle looking things, push into bottle, put on cap and RUN!

They blew up with a pretty good boom although I didn't think it was that hazardous. I did notice that the spot where we blew ours up bleached the concrete though!