I was attending the Imports Vs. Domestics Race yesterday and found myself within feet of a pretty wicked nitrous bottle explosion. We were talking through the pits and had stopped to talk for a second when the trailor 15 ft. behind me exploded like mortar round.I first thought maybe someones motor had blown but it quickly became aparent that shit had hit the fan. The pressure wave felt like someone hit me in the chest with a baseball bat. As i turned around i see shards of fiberglass flying and out of the corner of my eye i see a huge chunk of metal falling from the sky and landing about 5 ft. from where i'm standing. Turned out to be the bottle itself that was flattened and have jagged corners that would could have killed someone if it hit them.
To say my butthole was puckered is an understatement. There were a ton of people standing around and after the explosion everyone walked over to take pictures of the damage not realizing that there was another bottle hissing. I hear "Run it's gonna explode" and people took off in every direction. Luckily the second one didn't let go.
Here is the kicker....As i look into the trailor this ****ing guy had 3 other bottles with the burst caps still on, a mother bottle and 2 full propane tanks all in the trailor. He was using a goddamn turkey fryer to heat up his nitrous bottles which caused the entire thing. It was some Puerto Rican guy with a yip yap car. Thank God no one was hurt and the rest of the shit did explode.
Here's the aftermath.
The Second Turkey Frier. The other was obviously in pieces.
To say my butthole was puckered is an understatement. There were a ton of people standing around and after the explosion everyone walked over to take pictures of the damage not realizing that there was another bottle hissing. I hear "Run it's gonna explode" and people took off in every direction. Luckily the second one didn't let go.
Here is the kicker....As i look into the trailor this ****ing guy had 3 other bottles with the burst caps still on, a mother bottle and 2 full propane tanks all in the trailor. He was using a goddamn turkey fryer to heat up his nitrous bottles which caused the entire thing. It was some Puerto Rican guy with a yip yap car. Thank God no one was hurt and the rest of the shit did explode.
Here's the aftermath.
