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Reverse Mohawk

2008 Reader Submission
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Way back in the days of yore, a couple of mates and I would spend a few hours every weekend at the local tip (rubbish dump) collecting discarded aerosol cans and then exploding them in a fire.

This is way back when, when burning a tip was still done to keep the volume and smell down and except at the height of summer there was generally something burning.

On this particular day the local flour mill had dumped a load of spoiled flour and there was a nice gentle fire burning around the perimeter of the pile. We'd also managed to accumulate a pretty decent haul of cans.

Andy then had the bright idea of setting them all off at once. We found an old wooden drink crate, filled it with our booty and set it atop the flames before retiring behind a pile of dirt to observe the fruits of our labour.

If you know anything at all about flour you might be able to guess what happened next. For those who don't, think fuel air bomb.

The first can, a nice full one, went off and turned that nice, compacted, slowly burning pile of flour into a lovely cloud of finely divided, explosively flammable powder.

BOOM! The explosion scattered red hot aerosol cans in all directions, most of which gave up the ghost in a series of lesser but still impressive bangs, when they hit the rock hard ground.

" " Andy vociferously called our attention to the results of one can which had landed behind out nice protective pile of dirt. AND US.

Baz and I turned his way and damned near wet ourselves laughing at the neat three inch wide strip of almost perfectly shaved scalp that now adorned the top of his head.

We were well away before the CFA (Country Fire Authority) trucks arrived to clean up our mess but Andy's "interesting" new hairdo wasn't exactly unnoticeable and guilt by association saw Baz and I lined up beside him.

Fortunately, amusement kept the roasting to a minimum. And teenage hormones kept the lesson from sinking in too deep.

Submitted on 01/23/2008

Submitted by: Black Betty
Reference: Personal Account

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Bruce said:
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That's one hell of a fireworks display you guys created. Thanks for a good chuckle!


James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Close shave, what?!! A couple of inches lower and that can would have gone through your colleague's head! Anyway, you lived to tell and I think the readers will like this one! Thanks!


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