Nuclear powered Guinness 0.0 can

A colleague of mine was working in a police station in N Wales. He had brought a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie in a tin for his lunch.

He put the oven on, and once at the correct temp he put the can in the oven. He neglected to open the can and remove the lid.

About 30 mins later there was an enormous bang and people rushed to the kitchen area. The oven door had been blown off the cooker by the force of the steel can exploding and the canteen area was covered in superheated steak and kidney.

How we laughed when he had to explain what he had done…

I once dropped a jar of Ragu in the supermarket. Kapow!

These Guinness can things – can they be guaranteed to go off if dropped ?
Would be a spectacular way of ending the neighbour’s late-night BBQ. Just launch one over the fence…

Once watched a small boy, luckily from just outside blast range, drop a 1.5L plastic bottle of fizzy drink on the supermarket floor, it exploded on impact with a very loud bang and in a fraction of a second the boy was drenched in orange liquid, it looked amazing.

Remember when plastic bottles instead of glass first became a big thing?  There was a TV ad on the time which showed a woman accidentally dropping a big bottle whereupon it bounced down the steps.  A little time later I was helping my grandparents bring the shopping in from the car, my gran shouts “be careful with that bottle!”  I replied “it’s OK, watch!” and let go of it, with entirely predictable results and an impromptu lesson in not believing everything you see in TV ads.

I once dropped a jar of Ragu in the supermarket. Kapow!

Batman came up to me the other day. He hit me over the head with a vase and went “T’PAU!”  I picked myself up off the floor and asked “Don’t you mean KAPOW?” He said “No, I’ve got china in my hand.”

(With apologies to Tim Vine for nicking his joke.)