Flamethrower > Guy digging a big hole?

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » July 2, 2004, 3:22 am

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=1107178

What's really scary is all the people saying they want one and asking for plans.

If you post the directions on here and a bunch of people make them, I garuntee you somebody will explode.

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » July 2, 2004, 7:01 am

lolz welcome to 2 days ago in irc lolz

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » July 2, 2004, 7:25 am

kickass... im spending my unemployment making one of these!1!!!!!

Rasspotari · Post by **Rasspotari** » July 2, 2004, 8:36 am

he forgot to add greensoap to the gasoline, else it'll just burn up, with the soap mixed in . it'll stick on things and keep burning.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » July 2, 2004, 9:09 am

That is SO beyond cool.
I want to make one now for th efourth.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 2, 2004, 9:41 am

Make a whole lot more, and then weld a couple bikes together. Then armor plate the bikes and you have Killcycle!

It's nice to know that all teenagers aren't goons yet. Smart? Yes. Wise? Debateable. Cool? Amen.

Dups. · Post by **Dups.** » July 2, 2004, 9:58 am

Reminds me of my friend's super sooker, lamp oil and a candle in his driveway

Fuck - how am I still alive?

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » July 2, 2004, 3:14 pm

this kid is going to die a horrible death.

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » July 5, 2004, 5:55 pm

Skogen wrote:this kid is going to die an incredibly awesome death.

Drasta · Post by **Drasta** » July 5, 2004, 9:18 pm

wow .. he looks around my age ... 18ish? his parents if he still lives with him need to be beat ... and also this kid teen / young adult needs arrested ... isn't illegal to own one?

Kguku · Post by **Kguku** » July 5, 2004, 9:28 pm

His parents took the pictures of him using it for the first time.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 5, 2004, 9:50 pm

Drasta wrote:wow .. he looks around my age ... 18ish? his parents if he still lives with him need to be beat ... and also this kid teen / young adult needs arrested ... isn't illegal to own one?

Apparently not illegal.. right to bear arms, dude.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » July 5, 2004, 10:19 pm

Drasta wrote:wow .. he looks around my age ... 18ish? his parents if he still lives with him need to be beat ... and also this kid teen / young adult needs arrested ... isn't illegal to own one?

His parents were the ones behind the camera actually. They should be saluted. Needs to be arrested? Are you retarded? A gun has more potential to harm/kill someone. I don't know if it's legal to own a "flamethrower" but like Dregor said, right to bear arms.

Drasta · Post by **Drasta** » July 6, 2004, 12:02 am

sawed off shot gun? right to bear arms refers to a gun ... the founding fathers didn't have flame throwers or a bazooka .....

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 6, 2004, 1:26 am

They also didn't have semi-automatic, fully-automatic, laser targetted, whatever you want to point a stick at guns either. Anyways, this isn't about gun control... this is about a smart kid doing stupid things!

Kguku · Post by **Kguku** » July 6, 2004, 3:31 am

Dregor Thule wrote:They also didn't have semi-automatic, fully-automatic, laser targetted, whatever you want to point a stick at guns either. Anyways, this isn't about gun control... this is about a smart kid doing stupid things!

I'm not quite sure on how this is a 'stupid thing' that he is doing. From all the posts that I've read on the thread, he is being completely responsible with his testing, and following advice / criticism of people when they point out safety issues, and has worked actively to ensure the rig he is doing is safe. (Safety precautions being wetting down the area that he will be firing his flame thrower, ensuring there is at least one other person on hand with a fire extenguisher, etc etc).

He even refused to post how to do it for a flame thrower, however did post how to make a watergun version of it (I think I might actually do the watergun version with a friend of mine this summer for fun). Though there's not a lot of difference to modify it to use gas, which he stated, he is at least filling his responsibilities by ensuring as much safety as he can.

I give full marks to this kid for actually taking the time to learn how to do this and applying his knowledge in making it, and doing research on his work, including trying to ensure certain chemical welds will hold, and upgrading / improving them as he learned more from others.

Now if he was endangering himself and others then I could say yeah he's being stupid, but so far he has yet to show he has been. I must say his zombie/furry/marshmellow test was quite amusing - but again he ensured safety first.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 6, 2004, 10:04 am

Nice argument, doesn't change my feeling that strapping yourself into a flamethrower is patently foolish

Drasta · Post by **Drasta** » July 6, 2004, 2:00 pm

coming soon ... homemade plastic explosive!

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » July 6, 2004, 2:16 pm

this kid may not blow himself up, but at least 3 people will trying to copy him, LOL

Adex_Xeda · Post by **Adex_Xeda** » July 6, 2004, 3:04 pm

This has the making for a Darwin award!