1y ago

What's something that feels illegal to know?

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You can legally create, own, and use your own flamethrower in the majority of the US.
- You can just buy them from hardware stores. They're great for clearing weeds and such.
- I can't do that in Australia, but I can buy a toy encased in a chocolate egg.
  
  Real freedom
  
  I don't see the connection here.. still, that's pretty neat, good for you
  
  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.
  
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  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.
  
  They sell them where I live in the US.
  
  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
- Insanely easy too. Fill a nerf super soaker with gasoline and glue a match to the end.
  
  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
  
  We were all thinking it, he just said it
  
  Gas tends to dissolve/soften plastic.
  
  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
  
  I've known at least 3 idiots in real life that has tried that at various points in time.
  So, yeah, welcome to reality.
  
  So just fire it faster.

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