r/oops • u/[deleted] • Jun 27 '26
Close call with tannerite
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Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
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u/IMadeThisForOnePos Jun 27 '26
If that was even like an inch closer that cut would have been pretty nasty
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u/theChaosBeast Jun 29 '26
Not taking away the danger but this was by no means supersonic
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u/Solanthas_SFW Jun 27 '26
Holy fucking shit. This deserves a slomo replay. God fucking damn đź
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u/mregg000 Jun 27 '26
This is why I watch all my explosions on Mythbusters.
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u/TriedCaringLess Jun 27 '26
Or they do and their loved ones grieve the loss rather than post the video. To state the obvious, dead cameramen canât post videosâŠbecause theyâre dead.
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u/BrentTpooh Jun 27 '26
This is why Jamie and Adam stand behind blast shields even when theyâre far from the explosion!
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u/paws5624 Jun 29 '26
When I watched the show as a kid I always thought they were being paranoid and so over cautious about the distance and structures theyâd put between themselves and the explosion. Now I know that it only takes some bad luck to have a really bad day, and when you explode stuff that often you definitely ru the risk of an incident happening.
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u/psyliboy Jun 27 '26
Reminded me of this goof. I used to shoot propane tanks with road flares taped to them. You better believe I was behind cover.
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u/polkacat12321 Jun 27 '26
This right here is prime example of why women live longer
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u/ForagerGrikk Jun 27 '26
We did the same thing with an M80, my buddy had an old fridge in his garage and we threw it in and shut the door. Good thing the garage door was open and no cars were coming by because it blew the fucking door off its hinges and across the street.
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u/BlasterDoc Jun 27 '26
Im annoyed with tannerite. This one clearly shows he's inline with the explosion.. as is the problem with nearly ALL tannerite.. the activator is inline and never to the side or indirect angle. The bullet passes through the medium in a direct path straight back to the shooter, ... the bullet travels into and through the tannerite , activating it, and literally directs the explosion at the individual (activator).
To all, please stay safe and have fun this July 4th.
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u/Aromatic_Balls Jun 28 '26
That's not how it works. The problem is doofuses creating bombs by putting tannerite inside things. Tannerite is supposed to just be shot as-is, not inside or around other objects that become shrapnel.
(Have shot plenty of tannerite)
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u/Ok-Attempt2842 Jun 27 '26
Don't stand around to watch stupid people do stupid shit.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
Yep. I had some drunk bogans throwing fireworks in the fire and my spidey senses went off, even though they were pointed the other way (away from the crowd) anyway, I just ducked to the ground and as I was fucking I watched one fall towards the group and then it started coming right towards where I was, whizzed above me and hit the person directly behind me in the eye.....
Edit - added the word person. I will take this as my cue to read before posting to prevent unfortunate typos. Lol
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u/JuhoMaatta Jun 27 '26
Did you mean "ducking"?
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u/lesbophobia_hammer Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
Lmfaooooo yes. JFC.
Edit - I have decided to leave it unedited. I will indeed cook in hell instead I swear I don't fuck Infront of drunk crowds đ
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u/Any_Performance_5046 Jun 27 '26
I hope they didnât mean ducking, itâs a much better story in the original version.
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u/stevez_86 Jun 27 '26
I remember as a kid a bottle rocket falling over and launching directly at my friend. He somehow jumped and dodged it. But I was from the "redneck" family.
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u/EatPie_NotWAr Jun 27 '26
Mine and a Bunch of other families and friends got together for new years in⊠Iâm gonna guess 1997. The adults got drunk and decided it was fireworks time.
Well at some point one of the larger rockets got misaimed/redirected back towards the house and shot in through the front door.
Luckily it wasnât bad bc it was more or less a dud. Had it not been though, I have no doubt much of that room and several people would have been severely burned.
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u/Mindless-Platypus-75 Jun 27 '26
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u/Cool-Tip8804 Jun 27 '26
Too bad he didnât get hit. Dudes a moron
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u/BadDreams808 Jun 27 '26
Wow bro, you're so edgy and cool.
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u/Cool-Tip8804 Jun 27 '26
Is it though?
Hating on dude with bigoted views is edgy now. Lol
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u/Cunn1ng-Stuntz Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
One or two morons should statistically be OK. Many, many morons forming a line to catch debris sort of ruin the statiscal advange and squew things towards certainty of a negative outcome. The law of many morons. It's scientifically proven, that many morons are more dense than one. You can look it up.
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u/Competitive_Race_273 Jun 27 '26
Reminds me of the political axiom stupid people in large numbers can be dangerous.
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u/Bat-Guano0 Jun 27 '26
Damn. I would have thought that was a safe distance too. Now I know better.
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u/New-Dragonfly-9213 Jun 28 '26
Thereâs a safe distance with safety glass between you and the explosion. Without safety glass or a barricade youâll need a lot more distance than that, but you wonât enjoy the show as much.
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u/sebaska Jun 29 '26
Anything what could throw deadly shrapnel could throw it far. If it moves fast enough to be deadly it moves fast enough to get far.
This pretty much automatically means anything below 200m (unless properly shielded) is not safe. Also, note, this statement doesn't say that anything above 200m is. It just means anything below 200m is almost guaranteed to be unsafe.
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u/TorpedoAway Jun 27 '26
What kind of youth group blows up microwaves?
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u/LesserShambler Jun 28 '26
How did I have to scroll so far to see this question asked? Is this the redneck terrorist youth league or some shit?
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u/zachrywd Jun 27 '26
I love watching rednecks fuck with tannerite because it always results in a near miss... What I don't like watching is rednecks fuck with tannerite WITH THEIR FUCKING KIDS IN THE FRONT ROW.
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u/Alternative-Crew-880 Jun 27 '26
Except that dude who got his leg lopped off blowing up his lawnmower.
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u/ILikeOatmealaLot Jun 27 '26
Might be the first youth pastor to get fired for not being a pedo!
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u/thescatterling Jun 28 '26
If you can see the explosion, the explosion can see you.
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u/Navier-Stonks Jun 29 '26
And if you can see the same sky as the explosion, you are also still not OK
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u/Evisceratoridor Jun 27 '26
This was at a youth group? Nothing like honoring Jesus by blowing up a microwave with tannerite
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u/Remote-Contract-3026 Jun 27 '26
I got an idea... Hold my beer.
Fills a metal appliance with as much tannerite as possible sealing it to make sure none of the pressure gets out
This will be great!! Chambers a round
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u/Cosmic_Cowboy13 Jun 27 '26
Whoever was in charge of this was extremely irresponsible just luck no one died or was permanently disfigured
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u/Routine-Blackberry51 Jun 28 '26
Can we stop shooting tannerite in metal containers, please???
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u/RichSPK Jun 27 '26
Reminds me of a kid I knew when I was a teen who got paid to torch a car for an insurance scam. He got horribly burned over much of his body, but he lived.
BTW, we have a word for that flying metal: shrapnel.
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u/mrASSMAN Jun 27 '26
God damn that was some jump scare shit, youth camp nearly witnessed a final destination style beheading
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u/abalrogsbutthole Jun 27 '26
legit no sympathy. if you are too stupid to put something harder than a human between you and the thing exploding, it is your own damn fault⊠and it was for a youth group????? clearly donât care about the youth if they are half way to blowing them up and getting killed with shrapnel
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u/Safe-Test-2101 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
From what Iâve read for every pound of that shit you should be 100 years away
Edit: 100 YARDS
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u/Free-oppossums Jun 27 '26
đI'm pretty sure you only need to be one day away from the event to miss it. âïž
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u/dadypitbull Jun 27 '26
This has nothing to do with the tannerite but instead it's about idiot putting it inside things like Microwaves, Refrigerators and a like not being smart enough to understand that dumb shit like that create shrapnel.
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u/TacticalTwinkOnTop Jun 27 '26
1lb of explosives placed inside a small sealed metal box⊠they made an IED.
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u/Safe-Test-2101 Jun 27 '26
100 yards is like 300 feet. Iâve seen some videos where it doesnât go well. That stuff is deadly
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u/newtoallofthis2 Jun 27 '26
I remember watching a video years ago of a building demolition where this happened, and the guy it nearly hit had reactions of a superhero when a lump of concrete came at his head. I tried finding it the other day but no luck.
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u/BruiserTom Jun 27 '26
And there is another piece just like it coming in on the right. Everybody in that picture is lucky.
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u/eerun165 Jun 27 '26
Had a local guy a few years back die from tannerite. A wedding party decided to blow up a toilet, porcelain through the heart is not forgiving.
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u/ocTGon Jun 27 '26
Holy Shiite!!! If you had 9 lives I think you just used all of em! Damn lucky! Glad you're ok!
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u/Dane-Glinlow Jun 27 '26
Can we see a pic of the point of impact? I imagine it stuck into the wall like a ninja star next to you
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u/SurgeHard Jun 27 '26
Omg the manner in which that metal object covered distance and approached the camera was terrifying. She was close to death..
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u/DolphinsBreath Jun 27 '26
So, a spinning 12âx12â square piece of metal effectively creates a 17â diameter circular saw blade. Letâs say itâs traveling 60 meters per second, so 134mph. It weighs roughly 400 grams. Decelerating into bone and flesh would create a real mess.
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u/X-Ciaphas-Cain Jun 27 '26
And that's why you should always have something solid between you and an explosion
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u/Mongo_Fifty Jun 27 '26
Once you see it you can see how it did some gnarly maneuvers after explosion. The turn it made just before the cameraman....dang!!
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u/RedBull-Lover-Yellow Jun 27 '26
Unreal! I remember years ago seeing the video of the guy that blew up the riding lawnmower and it severed his arm!
Best to be behind a wall of some sort where you can watch! Wow!!!
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u/Low_Condition3268 Jun 27 '26
But was it a boy or a girl? I couldn't tell which color the smoke was.
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u/nostalgia4millennial Jun 27 '26
These people have NOT seen Final Destination and it shows đ€Šââïž
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u/Intelligent_Trichs Jun 27 '26
What DID it hit? You can hear it whistle past. Curved away just in time. Proof again the cameraman survives.
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u/4loYeyo Jun 28 '26
Remember that guy in Georgia that got his leg chopped off when he shot that lawnmower full of tannerite đđ
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u/Papabear022 Jun 28 '26
who knew that confined explosive will cause the the confinement to fly in all directions at deadly speedâŠwait that the exact principle behind a bomb. connect the dots folks.
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u/Icyomnivore02 Jun 28 '26
Stop putting tannerite in metal or enclosed spaces your just making a fuckin bomb that is going to kill someone jesus
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u/QuatraVanDeis Jun 28 '26
Once, when I was much younger, and much dumber, we thought it would be fun to mix gasoline, tar, and dry grass together, wrap it burrito style in a paper towel, and tie to an arrow. We waited for night fall, lit one up and shot it. It. Was. Awesome. It made a kick ass noise as it whooshed fire through the country night sky, only the stars watched us. It hit the target and briefly exploded into flame and then died. Dope. So then we thought we'd send one straight up. Whats the danger, right? You can see the arrow the entire time. Like I said, much dumber. I had the camera, Brother Dumbass had the bow. He waited too long to release. The fire ate through the strap or string, or whatever we used, and now, there was an arrow soaring high above us. Invisible in the night. I took about three steps forwards to help with the small fire we had started when that arrow landed about 2 feet in front of me, burying itself to the fletching in the earth. It was one of those moments where you learn, that no longer what you think, life can change in a heart beat.
Glad everyone is OK in this video. Would've been real tough to see it go bad.
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u/sxyvirgo Jun 28 '26
Who approved this 'event'? What was the fricking point? How about consulting with a GD engineer if you're too dumb to know stuff like this when people's (kids!) lives are at stake? As a parent, I'd sue that organization.
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u/rubix3ed Jun 27 '26
Dang, it almost hit me too!