• Poggervania
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    6910 months ago

    You can legally create, own, and use your own flamethrower in the majority of the US.

    • @EatYouWell
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      1810 months ago

      You can just buy them from hardware stores. They’re great for clearing weeds and such.

    • @pHr34kY
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      1510 months ago

      I can’t do that in Australia, but I can buy a toy encased in a chocolate egg.

      • kase
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        110 months ago

        I don’t see the connection here… still, that’s pretty neat, good for you

        • NoIWontPickaName
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          610 months ago

          Kinder eggs are super illegal in the US. People actually get in trouble sometimes instead of just having it confiscated.

          It is an extreme application of a rule saying that you can’t have non food items in food.

          • kase
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            110 months ago

            non-boneless meat has left the chat

            Just kidding, but yeah that kinda makes sense. When I was a kid I would always try to eat cake toppings because I didn’t know if they were plastic or not. I can see how kinder eggs could be problematic.

            • NoIWontPickaName
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              -110 months ago

              Are you sure those aren’t kinder joys? They are in the shape of an egg, but it splits down the middle and one half as some kind of soft chocolate candy and the other has a toy

    • @weeeeum
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      710 months ago

      Insanely easy too. Fill a nerf super soaker with gasoline and glue a match to the end.

      • Punkie
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        5610 months ago

        Just in case people actually think this is a good idea: do not. Plastic, uncontrolled spray, and blowback is just really shooting uncontrolled fire in all directions. It works in your cartoon world head, but I know someone who tried and suddenly the failure (like escaping fumes around the holder, gasoline versus rubber gaskets meant for water) make you go, “Oh. Right.” Thankfully, they only got first degree burns on their face, head, hands, and arms, a weird balding patterns, and missing eyebrows. Thankfully, someone had an ABC fire extinguisher nearby. Yes, alcohol was involved.

        The ones I have seen that work involve metal tubing and a secondary mixing of forced air along with a special fuel. https://www.recoilweb.com/flamethrowers-once-tools-of-war-now-toys-67763.html

        • @weeeeum
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          510 months ago

          I’m starting to get a little scared considering the amount of people taking this seriously. Perhaps it’s time to begin a charter to research and develop the most readily available and destructive improvised flamethrowers and other destructive devices

          • @A_Random_Idiot
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            410 months ago

            I’ve known at least 3 idiots in real life that has tried that at various points in time.

            So, yeah, welcome to reality.