Scrambled Eggs 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
As a seventeen-year-old young man, I cut my family's future off at the nards... literally.
Some friends of mine and I were told of a method for making a two liter bottle explode using dry ice and water to create pressure inside the enclosed bottle. We subsequently went to gather up as many two liter bottles as we could, get dry ice from the ice house and plan targets for this particular brand of mayhem.
After the first '"dry ice bomb" had gone off, we discussed how disappointed we were in the amount of time it took to actually blow. Our first solution was to use a one liter bottle, which just created a weaker, but still painfully delayed, explosion. The second solution was to use warmer water to create a faster reaction between it and the dry ice. This created a more reasonable time for us to wait until the sweet satisfaction of being a successful teenage vandal came to fruition.
Now we get greedy. If warm water made it better, then extremely hot water must make it even better still, and yours truly was the young man to try it. With the hot water poured into the bottle, I capped it. What I recall was immediate ringing in my ears and a lot of blood and plastic shards. The hospital was only about 1 mile and a half away, but it seemed like a light year.
At the hospital, I was rushed in and quickly assessed. Due to the way I was holding the bottle, my groin and thighs took most of the plastic shrapnel. At the age of thirty, I have many scars to remind me of my stupidity, but none of which is as monumental as my pair of silicone testes.
Submitted on 07/12/2002
Submitted by:
Joe Samuel Jones
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