Owly055
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I've never been involved in a "bottle grenade" before. This evening I got to experience one up close and personal. The bottle was a 1L EzCap bottle, a bottle rated with a burst pressure of over 100 PSI. It must have been a defective bottle. I've used these for years, and normally the seal leaks long before there is any risk of bursting...Who knows what happened. I was standing about a foot from the bottle with the bottle at chest level, and my shirt open.... a perfect target. The concussion was shocking, and the energy release was amazing. I ended up with two large pieces of glass embedded in my chest quite deeply, one took a pretty strong tug for me to pull it out. Glass was strewn an amazing distance. I live alone 20 miles from town, so I was fortunate that there was minimal bleeding, as I had to pick my way barefoot down the hall strewn with broken glass to the bathroom and wash the cuts and pick out the pieces, and find a suitable wash cloth to hold over the wound while I called the local hospital ER and told them I was coming and what had happened, then the 20 mile drive in the dark down "deer alley". I got about 20 stitches, one of the wounds was about half an inch deep.
I can't get over how lucky I was.... My face was out of the line of fire, and neither or the two lacerations bled a great deal or I would have needed help to get in to the hospital. And after the explosion I was not so flustered to be unable to pick my way through broken glass to the bathroom without cutting my feet. The clean up took about 2 hours after I got home. Not a fun experience, but an instructive one. The stars aligned in several ways in my favor other than those I mentioned.
You don't ever want to experience that!!
H.W.
I can't get over how lucky I was.... My face was out of the line of fire, and neither or the two lacerations bled a great deal or I would have needed help to get in to the hospital. And after the explosion I was not so flustered to be unable to pick my way through broken glass to the bathroom without cutting my feet. The clean up took about 2 hours after I got home. Not a fun experience, but an instructive one. The stars aligned in several ways in my favor other than those I mentioned.
You don't ever want to experience that!!
H.W.
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