Dynamite is NOT a Candle

[Dead Duck]

Do I need to remind you guys not to store your Dynamite in the Candle drawer?

They say it was a quarter stick of dynamite but that would have killed her.
Connecticut mom suffers 'extreme' injuries after lighting dynamite she mistook for candle: officials | Fox News


This link says it was an M-1000 which has different powder than actual dynamite. I don't recall that M-1000s looked like candles because you light the fuse in the middle. What ever it was, it still sounds like it hurt.
https://www.wtnh.com/news/unusual-s...-dynamite-for-candle-in-bridgeport/1424556007

 

[churchmouse]

Man I got nothing here for this one....

 

[Colt556]

Didn’t she notice it was an “ugly” candle?

 

[churchmouse]

Didn’t she notice it was an “ugly” candle?

That sparked a fizzed when she lit it...

 

[KellyinAvon]

That sparked a fizzed when she lit it...

I'd expect this from Wile E. Coyote.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

It can be for a little while. How long depends on fuse length.

 

[Wolfhound]

I'd expect this from Wile E. Coyote.

 

[Thor]

Store dynamite with the candles? That's crazy talk. I prefer to keep my explosives with the matches and blasting caps in the back of my truck.

 

[femurphy77]

Fake news. It was on Fox, that makes it fake right?



There. All better.

 

[Denny347]

Fake news. It was on Fox, that makes it fake right?

It come from the "news" in general so yeah...fake news.

 

[femurphy77]

Fake news. It was on Fox, that makes it fake right?

It come from the "news" in general so yeah...fake news.

At least one of us was being sarcastic. I know I was. . .

 

[Ziggidy]

Didn’t she notice it was an “ugly” candle?

Maybe she thought it was a smelly candle and needed to cover up the maryjane smell?

 

[CampingJosh]

Fake news. It was on Fox, that makes it fake right?



There. All better.

They called it dynamite even though it certainly wasn't dynamite. I feel like that fits as fake news.

 

[Ziggidy]

They called it dynamite even though it certainly wasn't dynamite. I feel like that fits as fake news.

When I was younger, all 1/4 sticks were called dynamite. Not that that means it is right, but it's not "fake".....maybe we were wrong, maybe they are wrong? Somebody is wrong?

 

[femurphy77]

NEVER, EVER admit you were wrong. Remember, it is ALWAYS somebody else's fault.

 

[Hkindiana]

An M80 is NOT dynamite!! Just like a pistol and 200 rounds of ammo is NOT an arsenal, and a semi auto weapon is NOT a machine gun. STUPID MEDIA spoon feeding the sheepies

 

[CampingJosh]

When I was younger, all 1/4 sticks were called dynamite. Not that that means it is right, but it's not "fake".....maybe we were wrong, maybe they are wrong? Somebody is wrong?

The reporting includes something that is demonstrably false. I guess we just have different expectations from news media.

 

[Hkindiana]

The reporting includes something that is demonstrably false. I guess we just have different expectations from news media.

True. Dynamite, invented by Alfred Nobel, is made with Nitro-Glycerine, and REQUIRES a blasting cap to detonate it. M80's and "quarter sticks" are made of flash powder, and are fuse lit. They are TOTALLY different from each other, both in their function AND their strength/power.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Dynamite has just became sort of a generic term for explosives in stick form. Sort of like nobody asks for a facial tissue, regardless of if the box actually contains Kleenex or not. Dynamite gets unstable as it ages, and at least in the military isn't really used any longer. I don't know about civilian blasting, but TNT replaced it in the military. TNT, C-4, and Comp B were what we used.

 

[Hkindiana]

Dynamite has just became sort of a generic term for explosives in stick form. Sort of like nobody asks for a facial tissue, regardless of if the box actually contains Kleenex or not.

So, does that make a firecracker (an explosive in stick form) "dynamite"?

i can see the news headline now: "12 sticks of dynamite confiscated from 8 year old on school grounds" - oh the horror of dynamite (firecrackers)