Funny story, but as a former teenage pyromaniac, I have to call foul...ether and a couple pounds of uncompressed Pyrodex wouldn't do anything like that. Way back in my substance abusing, Led Zeppelin / Pink Floyd days, a good buddy of mine found a duPont blasting cap while doing roofing work....I knew we had aquired the Holy Grail......this was 1979, way before Homeland Security or such things. We gathered a couple more idiots, bought a case of Schlitz Malt Liquor, a 10 pound bag of ammonium nitrate, a gallon of No 1 fuel oil, and headed for a nearby state park....our ignition train consisted of a bucket, a concrete block, and 75 feet (yes, 75) of speaker wire.....we assembled our WMD , and touched it off to the battery of the driver's Chevy Nova. The anethestic properties of the Schlitz (among other things) cushioned the concussion a bit, but noone could hear very good for a day or two...ah, freedom....
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