Continuing with todays theme of death and destruction, I’ve constructed a Molotov cocktail! Er… sort of. Actually it was pretty lame. As Al Qaeda would have said, “Did you hear us? We voted. You’re out of the [terrorist] cell!”
It went like this: I decide to make a Molotov. Don’t ask me why. So I go grab a glass bottle (about 20 oz), a rag, and a can of gas. I fill the bottle with gas, stuff the rag into the bottle, and douse the rag with gas. I lit the rag, and I think I said something like “Gah!” because I’d forgotten how well gas burned. So then I chuck the bottle. It arcs up, trailing flame… then it comes down and hits the ground with a *doink* type of sound, and completely fails to break.
Round two: after putting the rag out (I was smart enough to have a hose standing by) I tried again. Another rag, another (smaller) dousing of gas, another match, another toss… *doink*
DAMMIT.
Round three: got a bigger bottle, on the assumption that A larger surface area would break easier. Poured the gas from the small bottle into the new one, got another rag, etc. Still didn’t break, but the rag fell out and the gas spilled out making a pathetically small and short-lived inferno. I hosed the area down because, as Smokey says: only you can prevent forest fires.
What I learned: Dirt is softer then it looks, and glass is harder then it looks. No wonder all the fun riots are in cities.
Also: screw the Molotov’s, go right for the fireballs. Film Canister Fireball
I’m so doing that once I get some smokeless powder.
Only with a trash can instead of a film canister.
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