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Pastimes : The Scariest and or Dumbest thing I ever did voluntarily
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (83)4/26/2001 12:15:52 PM
From: Quahog   of 117
 
At a summer camp I regularly worked at,
the end of each two week session would be marked with a truly gigantic bonfire that I built with the help of others. After building the entire structure, I would douse it with about a gallon of kerosene. As an ignitor, I hide a coffee can filled with a cup of chlorine powder in the back of the structure, then after the campers arrived would casually pour some pine sol into the can and walk away. This mixture would then spontaneously combust after a few minutes (which is why you never use bleach with pine sol) while the campers chanted to the Indian fire gods, and the result would be that the bonfire would appear to mysteriously and amazingly light with no human intervention.

Anyway, that's not the dumb part. After years of doing this, I was at a friend's farmhouse for a bonfire. I built an impressive structure and called for the kerosene. Well, my friend said they didn't sell kerosene at the gas station he had gone to, so he had instead bought gasoline. "Same difference," I figured, and proceeded to pour a gallon or two all over the wood.

I backed up a few feet and threw a match, and ........BOOOM!!!! Giant explosion. Amazingly, no one was injured in the least. The fire burned so hot that we couldn't stand within 20 feet of it, and it burned through what wood was left within an hour.
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