Explosion On Long Island

No biggie.
Dude brought home some little pieces of dry ice to show his kid and sealed it in a jar.

Standing in front of the house on Quaker Hill Road yesterday afternoon, Lopes said he had no idea the dry ice would release so much gas as it warmed. His mistake, he said, was screwing on the container's lid so tightly.

Lopes' stepdaughter, Anna Fabbri, 23, was in the basement when the explosion occurred, he said. Startled, she asked a friend she was chatting with on the computer to call the police. A neighbor, who would not give her name, said Fabbri was worried at first that the noise could have been from an intruder.

Police from Suffolk's Sixth Precinct responded, as did arson squad detectives, the Stony Brook Fire Department, the University Fire Marshal and other emergency services officers.

How embarrassing.
While emergency personnel were at the scene, some of his neighbors were not allowed to come up the road to get home.
Can't even calculate the number of bundt cakes this type of faux pas requires.

VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE: We here at AOSHQ would like to remind any young/ impressionable readers to not try this at home, or any of the other experiments some wiseguys are suggesting in comments.

This is not called a moronblog for nothing.

posted by Laura. at 02:00 PM

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