1/ The topic is dumpster fires. So, story time...https://twitter.com/robkroese/status/971486843299647489 …
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3/ Then in his early 20s bought a house near a college campus, rented it to a fraternity, and enlisted their help in demoing and remodeling. Free labor!
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4/ He always knew how to squeeze a nickel until it screamed, and so when he rented a dumpster for construction debris, he'd be damned if he'd pay for two emptyings if he could squeeze more in and just pay for one.
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5/ How do you collapse a very big dumpster load into a small one? With fire, obviously!
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6/ So he poured a few gallons of gasoline over the debris ...and then realized "these flames might attract attention". So he did the obvious thing: covered the dumpster with scraps of plywood to keep the flames down.
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7/ ...which is to say, yes, he constructed a 20 cubic yard fuel air bomb.
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8/ he realized this about 100 milliseconds after climbing up the side of the dumpster and tossing a lit piece of newspaper in.
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9/ and by "realized" I mean: as he was flying backwards through the air, he saw the sheet of flaming plywood dancing merrily in the sky above him /exeunt
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