Landfill Minute 8: Picric Acid Incident

[@machinist1337]

It seems like they just did it for fun. "Lets get some gas" is always a precursor to blowing something up.

[@ludekspurny5553]

It’s a shame and comedy. Wet picric acid is completely safe and even dry explodes with strong impuls. Picric acid was used (dry, of course) in most ammo in WWI.

[@bobbyc2768]

exactly haha. when wet it's extremely shock resistant. she has a jar of it she drove there, going over bumps, handling it however she would handle a jar of water, so they make a perimeter with a 300ft radius, call tons of people down, costing who knows how much money just to do what this lady did, pick the jar up and take it somewhere safe. blowing it up is fine, it's practice for the bomb squad, but all they had to do was grab the jar and give it to them, not all this. leave it to government to make any situation as wasteful and ridiculous as possible. i remember hearing about a police department's response to someone finding a live grenade in an old vietnam vet's house after he died, bringing the bomb squad out and completely panicking like the entire block could be blown to bits at any given second if they just handled it rough. the pin was in, and it was in perfect condition. those things are safe as hell until you pull the pin! how much cheaper would it have been if an officer or two on the bomb squad just grabbed it and brought it back to wherever they detonate their stuff to render things safe, and simply pulled the pin and threw it. i wonder how many grenades, bottles of picric acid, and worse are just swimming around in landfills around the country right now and harming nobody because nobody knows about them

[@kylehowat6775]

The Gasoline was totally unnecessary

[@mycake9831]

Dangerous my ASS it's picric acid not nitroglycerin hahaha

[@2mc29]

Picric acid is a very stable compound which is very unlikely to detonate without the activation energy of a primary explosive.

[@spannaspinna]

You don’t know much about picric acid

[@theodorekorehonen]

Lmao what was the point of the gasoline?