Exploding Fruit

This is extremely funny, and, depending on what type of banger and fruit you use, will spread squishy debris over a wide area.. You will need:

1. A lighter
2. The fruit of your choice
3. A knife
4. Some bangers

This is what to do:

1. Find a suitable blst area.
2. Take the fruit of choice, and make a hole in it large enough for the banger to fit in, with a tight fit. From previous research, I have concluded that these are the best fruits:
3. Tomato (the best)
4. Banana
5. Grapefruit (if you have a huge banger)
6. Tangerines
7. Eggs (not really a fruit, but there you go)
8. Take the banger, and insert it into the fruit as far as it will go.
9. Place the fruit in the blast area.
10. Ignite the fuse as quickly as possible. This will help to stop the juice of the fruit from dampening the explosive.
11. Set camera.
12. Run like fuck.

How I did it:

First, I craftily half-inched a road traffic cone from some nearby roadworks. This makes the perfect blast area, and raises the fruit to a convenient height for photography. It was raining outside, so instead of risking dampening the charge and destroying the banger, I decided to conduct the research inside my carport. This had the added advantage of keeping me dry, and acting as a windbreak, facilitating easy ignition of the fuse.

I then selected my explosive. After much consideration I decided to use a two-fused french banger. These small bangers are, however, very powerful for their size.

After checking that all authority figures (i.e. parents) were out, I chose my fruit. After long and hard deliberation, I selected a small tomato. These are by far my favourite, as they fly apart very well and spread squishy fallout over walls and people in the way. I then prepared the fruit as described above. When this task was completed, the finished assembly looked like this:

I then placed the fruit on the blasting cone, and set up my borrowed multi-shot camera to record the action.

Unfortunately, the banger did not explode with any worthwhile force. I inspected the banger, and found that only a quarted of the explosive had detonated. I was then considerably pissed off, and irrationally decided to use an enormous dirty great banger.

This banger had considerable force, and totally disintegrated the tomato, with a big fat noise.. To see an video of the explosion (GIF)click here.

As you can see, the tomato exploded with reasonable force. Extra evidence for the force of the explosion was also found, in the form of fragments of tomato stuck to every available surface in the immediate vicinity. The longest distance attained by a fragment of tomato from this explosion was 13.1m

This piece of tomato was stuck to the wall.	These are the reamins of tomato and banger that were blasted down through the cone, and were underneath it.

More research is needed to discover a way of cheaply manufacturing small explosive devices to detonate the fruit, as bangers are in short supply. Have you any comments or suggestions? email me.

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