And You Thought Balloons Were Harmless

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http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/23...illed_bal.html

Not when you fill them with explosive Acetylene gas. (Who does that?) On the way to a Super Bowl party, a 46-year-old Wyoming man didn’t count on the forces of static electricity. When the balloon he had filled with welding gas rubbed across his back seats, it ignited and exploded — leaving him and his passenger with shrapnel wounds, broken eardrums, and potentionally two to six years in prison for “possession, use, or removal of explosives of incendiary devices.”