Haiti was the worst, but this one hits close to home since we lost a few good bros. Definitely a difference in morale today than with the quake and hurricanes we worked.
Yeah the guy was dumb, but its easy to underestimate the power of a blast like that.
There's a pretty common safety training film out there that shows a propane tank burning way off in the distance. The film ends as the tank blows up. the guy filming it died.
There was a guy at a mine in Tucson who wanted to show his buddies how powerful ammonium nitrate is, so he took a bucket full and put it out in the pit and drove away in his Jeep and detonated it. Blew the windshield out of his jeep and he ended up in the hospital.
We had a butane tank explode in the company I am with now, and a big hunk of the tank shell, weighing a couple thousand pounds, flew over a half a mile.