Shifter-bottle burst

[Pete.]

Guy is hooking up his trailer to go drag-racing. He has a small CO2 bottle for powering his gear shifter system. As he's hooking the trailer up the bottle explodes. Check out the pics - good job there was no-one in the trailer when it went off:

[lugoismad]

[ms51ves3]

Would have been interesting if you were driving along side it and the next thing you know there's a CO2 bottle in your car and your window is smashed

[AppleJoe]

That guy looks wierdly happy for someone who just pulled a 5" splinter out of his neck...
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Fook.
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[drunkensod]

I love threads like this. The guy who's trailer it is has blantantly yelled to his mate:

"Don't pull those splinters out. Let me get the camera - it'll look really cool!"

I just find it funny that his first though it about the comedy value of the incident rather then his mate's injuries! LOL!!

[Pete.]

[tutton]

Strangely coincidental the bloke was behind when it blew
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[tatters]

interesting l,ve only seen compressed gas bottles blow due to heat, saw the results of a test bath explosion a few years ago 200 areosol cans burst due to a pratt at Loreal linking out the high temp cutout on the bath, seriously injured a operator and destroyed the room.
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