Exploding Dunnies 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
In the Australian Army, it is common when on long exercises in the field at the same location, that we would build hard standing latrines, consisting of a long trench up to 15' deep, with up to 6 thunder boxes placed in rows across the top, to allow health conversation as time permitted. Usually this area would be surrounded with hession and cam nets, but on this exercise, we had engineer support so a wooden construction was built around the area.
Due to the problem with fly's and their disease carring capabilities, it is important to maintain strict hygene. So each day a young soldier is chosen to drop some petrol down the pits and light it off. Well it came my day, and the kitchen SGT who was also incharge of the general duty personnel, told me to do a general clean of the area and drop 5 ltrs of petrol down the hole and light it off.
Being the dutiful chap I am, I droped 5 ltrs down each hole, around a jerry can and a half.
Now I know what petrol does when you put a match to it, but the SGT must have known what he was doing, so I lit a piece of paper and droped it in the hole.
The explosive force, blew out the walls of the shed, threw the thunder boxes around 30' and covered everything within 150' with the contents of the holes.
This included around 40 soldiers who were in the vicinity and worse of all my current boss the Kitchen SGT.
Needless to say, I had lost all the hair on my head, was covered in #### and ended up in hospital suffering from concussion. By the time I got out the mess was cleared up and I had received an appropriate nickname, which followed me around the army for the next 20 years. #### for Brains. Submitted on 08/08/2002
Submitted by:
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