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So... a few friends and I were discussing what would happen if we lit the gas tap in the science lab. We were 11-12 and I think I had just seen an episode of Bo
by bobsy 13y ago
So... a few friends and I were discussing what would happen if we lit the gas tap in the science lab. We were 11-12 and I think I had just seen an episode of Bottom with a lit gas pipe. We were strangely unattended in a science lab that day.
I turned on the tap and a friend lit it. Queue a rather cool jet of flame in the middle of the room. Teacher I guess saw the glow coming from the room. Turned it off.
Received bollocking like none other and a 2 day suspension to underline the seriousness of this.
Notably we were not accused of either arson or trying to blow up the school. Youthful - unacceptable - misadventure.
As usual there aren't any facts on what this girl was doing. On the surface though it seems expulsion and criminal action is way over the top.
- arethuza 13y agoI made gun cotton as part of a 6th year Chemistry project (this is Scotland where we had strange exams) - I was making a variety of early plastics and we had a lab and access to the chemicals store with hardly any supervision. When the Head of Chemistry found out he called me an idiot, got me to go to the groundsmans store and get a spade and go and bury the gun cotton somewhere. Then there was the time I wasn't paying attention when I went to get some sulphuric acid from the store and was doing something and wondering "why is this acid viscous and why are things getting so hot?". Probably wise that I didn't do Chemistry at University.
- gadders 13y agoWe used to fill pencil cases up with gas and squirt across a bunsen burner when no-one was looking. Worse you'd get would be a dentention.
- timthorn 13y agoDoes no one blow into a gas tap to extinguish all the lit bunsens in the lab these days?
- nachteilig 13y agoA lot of school labs only stock hot plates these days ;o(