Rocket man burns his dorm kitchen

[lost in space]

A student at BYU was brewing up rocket fuel in his dorm kitchen when it exploded, setting off the sprinkler system which left inches of water on the floors. The fireball caused significant damage to the kitchen. 22 students were displaced. Police reminded students to "keep your experiments in the lab."

Maybe this kid shouldn't be trusted with volatile experiments anywhere, lab or not.

Guardian

[bfd]

YBU?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

With apologies to Elton John:

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
'Til teacher brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his kitchen here alone

[cbelt3]

Reminds me of a dipstick my Freshman year who liked to make batches of ammonia/ iodine and leave little explosive “pranks”. Ultimately he blew up his dorm room and was expelled..

[Speedy]

cbelt3 wrote:
Reminds me of a dipstick my Freshman year who liked to make batches of ammonia/ iodine and leave little explosive “pranks”. Ultimately he blew up his dorm room and was expelled..

I hope he wasn’t higher than the second floor when he was expelled.

[lost in space]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
With apologies to Elton John:

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
'Til teacher brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his kitchen here alone

miley-laughing001:

[raz]

Isn't that how JPL got started? A couple of CalTech students were brewing rocket fuel and blew up a building. In that case, though, they just moved the enterprising youths off to a farm somewhere and let them get on with it.