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Home Brew

2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

I live in the north of Queensland and know a bloke who was determined to make his own homebrew rum.He had put his brew down a couple off weeks before the accident.The reason for me telling you this is he did'nt quite make it to the official Darwin Award but I thought it was as funny as F##k so thought I would submit it under very stupid things to do.He went down to his shed at night to find out how his brew was going.Being dark and not having any sort of electrical lighting he decided to use his smoke lighter to see how things were proceeding.The resulting explosion was enough to burn him so badly that he had to have a couple of weeks off work.I do'nt know if the shed is still standing as every time I see him and his slightly fried head I cannot stop laughing enough to ask him. I'm sure there are a lot off plumbers in the Townsville area who know him.

Submitted on 07/25/2003

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Darwin said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Amusing!

Mike said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
he tried

Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
My dictionary says that rum is "an alcoholic beverage distilled from a fermented cane product (as molasses)." But other than that, I know not.

Charles said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I have to assume he was trying to distill rum, because the fermentation process makes carbon dioxide which won't burn. Distillation, if done wrong, can release methanol / ethanol vapour into the air, and that can blow up. But this one. I'd have to say let the viewers decide.

Bert said:
Definitely Toss: Other
No details as to how or why the explosion occured- Beer isn't normaly flammable, so what was his error in judgment???

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