NSFW!! "The Butt Rocket" -- Some will find this hilarious, others will find it stupid

[mjr]

Ok, video NSFW...

Premise of video:

Group of guys think it'll be funny to launch a bottle rocket out of one of their butts.

Guy pulls his pants down and lays on his back, exposing butt cheeks. "Friend" of this guy holds his legs up while another friend adjusts end of rocket in guy's butt...

"Friend" of this guy lights rocket. Sparks from fuse land on guy's butt, burning it, causing him to clinch butt cheeks together while shouting "It burns! It burns!"...

Bottle rocket SCREECHES (giving off LOTS of sparks in the process) while still stuck in guy's clinched butt cheeks, and...POP!!
. He jumps up quickly, rubbing his butt, looking like a fool and pulling his pants up...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0FJrhoIiQU

[PepperElf]

o MY!


i guess he'll never try that again.

[mjr]

o MY!


i guess he'll never try that again.

Did you watch the video?? It's a lot funnier if you watch the video...

Every time I do, I'm ROFLMAO with tears in my eyes I'm laughing so hard...

[dalesys]

And his new name (by way of Spider Robinson) ie:

Fleming Ayniss.

[Racket_Man]

I thought a story or one similar was nominated for a Darwin Award a few years back? I think in that case the guy died as a result of sever burns and toasted insides.

[mjr]

I thought a story or one similar was nominated for a Darwin Award a few years back? I think in that case the guy died as a result of sever burns and toasted insides.

That, I think, was a different situation. And I think it may have been based on an urban legend. I don't think the guy died.

But if it's the one I think you're talking about, it involved a gerbil, a toilet paper tube, a match, and a guy's rectum...

It may have actually been this:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blbyol4.htm

[lordlundar]

Nope, I know the one he's talking about, it's a variant on the old "exploding cow" urban myth. Basically instead of lighting a cow's flatus and a backdraft causing the cow to explode it was lighting his own and a backdraft causing intestinal rupturing.

[Eevie]

I feel like I just watched something out of Jackass...

[wolfie]

My computer (old, dialup) can't get YouTube, but I've seen a few variants on this, including one where a "well-endowed" woman launched a rocket from her cleavage. That one took off, but still burns from the exhaust.

As for the intestinal explosions (both bovine and human), while it's true that flatulence contains methane, it won't "backdraft" and explode inside, for the simple reason that there's no oxygen to burn it with. IIRC, methane has a narrow band between "too rich to burn" and "too lean to burn", compared to other fuels.

[lordlundar]

As for the intestinal explosions (both bovine and human), while it's true that flatulence contains methane, it won't "backdraft" and explode inside, for the simple reason that there's no oxygen to burn it with. IIRC, methane has a narrow band between "too rich to burn" and "too lean to burn", compared to other fuels.

Hence the urban legend status.