I've been wondering what that was...

Is that a fragmentation avocado or a concussion avocado?

Either way you get some great guacamole.

Concussion. One skin-penetrating avacado wound was enough for me. Avacodo shrapnel doesn't show up well on x-rays any better than PVC...

-Blast

p.s. On a side note, there's some pretty amazing tequila around Mexican oilfields...

organic projectile penetrating wounds are always a challenge. if it's wooden, we can send radionuclide-tagged termites down the wound channel and track it with a gamma camera. PVC and avocados are tougher.

I retract my earlier objection. While the fire jar does replicate a couple of improvised munition devices even to the number of match heads present (or so I am told), there is no ignition device, so it is at least as safe as any other match safe. However, I have devised a solution to this non-problem: pack the square indentation in the cap with baking soda, secured with scotch tape: should ignition occur, the heat will melt the tape, pyrolyze the bicarb, and extinguish the flame. And what do we call a solution to a non-problem? A MARKETING OPPORTUNITY! Just like bottled water solved the problem of access to potable water in the USA, just as the entire fashion industry solves the problem of access to clothing, just as the hula hoop solved the problem of lack of technology to help us shake our butts...
We now have the IRON RAVEN IMPROVED MATCH SAFE WITH ON BOARD FIRE SUPPRESSION CAPABILITY. This could be huge. I've seen guys selling lanyards on the internet, guys selling duct-tape wallets in the Gap. This is is no more silly than those items, and a whole lot more useful. Raven, an opportunity for a killer home-based business is at your fingertips-well done.

Nursemike, you are a GENIUS!

-Blast

Good idea, but how about inexpensive plastic wrap that will melt faster than scotch tape. Kind of like the sensing element in a sprinkler. The element melts and when it does a valve opens on the sprinkler and releases water or some other material (not sure this is with all kind of sprinklers). Wouldn't you want the barrier between the sprinkler and matches to melt fast?

Could always make a fuse that could go to a small explosive charge behind the baking soda so that should a fire occur, the baking soda would be RAPIDLY deployed throughout the contents....


On second thought... bad idea...

A small explosive charge sounds like fun.