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Garden Bomb

2006 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Darwin says, "Accepted into the Archive as an Urban Legend."
ORIGINAL SUBMISSION:

This is a true event that happened in the suburbs of Adelaide. One morning the neighbours were awakened to an almighty explosion and on checking the backyard of one of the houses, found a large hole, still smoking with the pungent odour of marihuana.

The called the police who found the remains of a man at the bottom of the hole. It appeared he had buried a large water tank deep in his backyard with a small hidden entrance and had set up a hydroponic system to grow his happy weed. He also used a CO2 generator which uses a small flame from a butane gas bottle to generate the CO2. He had gone down to his garden paradise and found that the flame had gone. Without knowing how many days the gas had been leaking into his bomb, he tried relighting the flame.

Submitted on 06/04/2006

Submitted by: Dennis George
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James said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I'm a bit leery because there is no news link, but I haven't seen this one as a UL anywhere, and it is wierd enough to pass as a PA. I will let my fellow mods and the readers decide...Thanks, Dennis!

Greg said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I agree with James - it's a bit different to the norm and amusing enough for me. :-)

Jorge said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account

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