Classic.

In the words of Red Forman "Dumbass".

LMAO I made this mistake as well, except that it was just seltzer water. But I put it in my water bottle with a pop up straw, and then tried to take a drink as I was driving in my car. 😅

My wife did this with water when we flew one time. Had a water bottle she filled up after security checkpoint. Get on the plane and up in the air. Halfway through the flight she gets thirsty so grabs the bottle and pops up the straw. Water promptly soaks her and the guy sitting next to her— both were too stunned to move till the bottle was empty.. Fortunately the guy was a great sport about it and we laughed about it walking through the airport.

Thank god he was okay about it I couldn't imagine being stuck sat next to someone for hours after that if not

Went to a camping once, made myself a good ol' Cuba Libre in a bottle, and carried it arround in a caddy on the rocky road to the camping beach. Needless to say that when I arrived there, the bottle was empty and the caddy, full.

Sounds like a Monster eruption.

Did this the other week with a twist off Yeti water bottle on the train. Sounded like a gun shot, though no liquid came out luckily.

Where do you work that an improvised weapon made from a soda can is an actual threat?

Mental health hospital, I think its more for regulation than actual threat but I'd rather not find out the hard way lmao

Ohh, copy.

Haha. Repressed memory. In kindergarten, my mom packed my lunch in a lunchbox with Thermos. In the Thermos she put Dr. Pepper. After half a day rolling around in my backpack, I put that Themos to my mouth and opened the nozzle. It’s been damn near 40 years and I still vividly remember the kinda warm Dr. Pepper shooting out my nose and all over the lunch table. I’ve never put a carbonated beverage in an enclosed container since that time.

I'm confused? Cans as weapons?

Same thing happened to me once, also on a plane. I actually switched to wide mouth bottles after that...

Aluminium cans can be sharp enough to cut skin if ripped, and I work in a mental health hospital with a lot of patients with violent potential so its a precaution we take

Man I was hoping it was something more mundane and the rule would make less sense in some funny way. That's just sad/ understandable.

It’s because the air pressure on a plane is less than on the ground, but the sealed bottle stays the same pressure, so upon opening, it will violently depressurize

Where the hell do you work where they are that worried about improvised weapons and you aren’t allowed to take pictures?

It’s because the air pressure on a plane is less than on the ground, but the sealed bottle stays the same pressure, so upon opening, it will violently depressurize

My grandma would let coca cola sit out all night with no lid and put it in my thermos. It was flat by then so no explosions.

My mom put coke in my baby bottle and sippy cup. It's a southern thang.

I only drink water now.

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I mean I guess. I applaud people with the patience to deal with others that have those sort of issues, its not me.

My mom had recently redone the kitchen in her house. My mom and her current husband don’t drink. They went to to evening mass I think which left my sister and I alone during the holidays and we wanted to have some wine. We couldn’t find a wine key, so in my infinite wisdom I decided to just push the cork into the bottle, I pushed to hard and the dark red wine splashed everywhere on the cabinets, the appliances, and floor. We cleaned things down quickly and thought we were in the clear, but then we saw the spray on the ceiling. We broke out the magic eraser though this took off some of the off white paint.

We never told her until this past Christmas. Her quote “I always wondered how those spots showed up out of nowhere.”

Omg I would be living in constant fear after that haha

I mean, there's a reason why it's called a water bottle and not a Monster™ drink bottle.

Can attest to it being a Southern Thang TM. Lost my first two baby teeth cause a family member kept putting me to sleep with a bottle of coke. My first surgery was a dental surgery with them ripping those teeth out. Incidentally, that’s also how we found out I was allergic to penicillin!

Childhood dental surgery here, too. Lol

Juice is no better, though, my two youngest loved juice and they ended up with metal caps and all kinds of dental work as toddlers. We spent tens of thousands on their teeth.

I should have given them water. I thought I was enlightened because I chose juice over cola.

I opened a new two liter bottle of Dr. Pepper in my parent's kitchen when I was in high school. It hadn't been shaken up, it was straight out of the fridge. As soon as I cracked the seal the top flew off and a geyser of soda erupted all the way to the ceiling.

Left a huge stain on the ceiling and soaked half the kitchen in sticky Dr. Pepper. That was almost 35 years ago and I don't think my parents believe to this day that my brother and I weren't horsing around. I guess it was just over pressurized from the bottling plant.

Cans can be used for self harm.

Yea that too!

>recently introduced a rule that we can't bring cans of drink in bc of risk of improvised weapons

Where the fuck do you work man? O.o Prison?

Close! A mental health hospital

Years ago, we had a bottle of sparkling apple cider we'd opened. The plastic cap had been put on it. Being the smart-ass, I wanted to pop the top off and watch it fly a little. So, I gave it a small shake and popped the top off.

Years later, you could still see the stain on the kitchen ceiling.

This reminds me of the time I met my wife's father the first time. I went with her to visit family out west. We took a family picnic and a grill with us on an outing up in the mountains. Getting ready for a nice hot dog I asked for the mustard. Flipped the top and proceeded to spray French's yellow all over the front of his pants and shirt. It probably launched a blast a good 5 feet.

I'm from the east coast. This whole major elevation change thing is new to me. Great first impression fml

I wonder if diet juice (the kind with no sugar) would make a difference or if it’s the acidity?

Wait, what? Diet juice?

Aspartame destroys tooth enamel so I doubt it would be better

Ah that would have been my second guess. A little more precaution there isn't a bad thing.

Most definitely, I've already had enough of a bad time without any improvised weapons haha, I definitely don't want to make it worse

I get cranapple juice and there’s a diet version of it on the shelf next to it. I’m not 100% sure on the difference other than I don’t like the taste of the diet version

Well no juice for my future kids then I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

We live at 4600' and most of our food gets shipped from central California. People who are new to town think most of the food at the store has spoiled because the containers are bulging when they get here. You learn quickly to poke a tiny hole in the middle of the yogurt seal and let the air out before peeling back the edge. I also have to be careful opening brand-new mason jars because the lids will stick just long enough to get the rings off then they shoot across the room with a loud pop.

Now there's a new rule about drinks.

Worked a stint in a facility for geriatric mental patients, and yeah, some things can surprise you. even though you worked with someone for 2 years already. Luckily for you this was just some food colouring on the ceiling haha. Cans weren't a problem, but I can surely see why they can be. People can get very very crafty.

Yup, basically what I'm doing at the moment - elderly with complex behaviour, mental health and learning difficulties. What I don't understand is we can't have cans on unit yet we have a whole selection of about 40 DVDs in the main lounge just sat on a table, which apparently are just as effective a weapon

Went to a Renn fair once with a similar outcome. You can't bring in outside drinks to the fair, they have to make their beer money after all. I decided I needed to sneak myself some red bulls and beer in. Being a renn faire I couldn't simply be drinking cans in the open and solo cups arent much fun so I decide to fill up my water bottles/flasks with red bull. Mind you, it's an old fashion looking glass bottle/flask that's hanging off my hip. Im sure you know where this is going.

Standing around in a hat shop and I reach down to check my pocket and ever so slightly tap the bottle and boom, the whole bottom of the bottle explodes downwards covering the floor and one pantleg in a glass shard filled sugary sticky mess. There were 4 of us in the shop and everyone was equally stunned for a solid 10 seconds just staring at the mess. No injuries aside from my pride and its pretty comical to think back on.

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Suggest they pain the walls a la Jackson Pollock?

The perfect cover up

When we were young, home alone of course. We did similar my brother and I thought it was funny to shake up the Martinellis and pop the little top it had with the tab. Well I bet him he wouldn’t shake it the “longest” well boy was I wrong he barely touched that little tab. Next thing you know Sparkling cider has left the bottle as a rocket ship headed straight for the white ceiling now this was a vaulted ceiling 12ft high at this point of the arch. When it hit the ceiling it spread out and came down all inside the chandelier all over the dining room all over the walls and this piece of art. We were in a scramble to clean everything before our parents could return. We cleaned it all up i disassembled the globes from the chandelier cleaned them in the sink, wiped the wall but we couldn’t quite reach the ceiling. They walked in 5 minutes after the big cleanup,They didn’t notice! It wasn’t until about 10 years later they were painting the house that they noticed and we were like have we got a story for you.

Yeah that's pretty odd. Especially since dvd's are much sturdier material too.

No exploding pink drinks!

Can I recommend watering down the juice maybe 50-50 water and juice if not even more water as an occasional treat during the day? It's what my mother did although that was more because juice is pretty sugary and not the best health wise as opposed to teeth protection.

Everyone's wondering that. You should edit that into the op, OP 😉

Basically the same thing or at least it feels the same.

It's interesting how you got up and down voted for the same comment.

BTW it's true.

So is a solution to prevent this to keep opening and closing the bottle during ascent? Get the pressure inside decreasing in steps.

I’ve had this happen once and have avoided it since by slightly opening the bottle (where some pressure gets released) and leave it like that through takeoff and then do it again for landing.

" bc of risk of improvised weapons "

Jesus christ Americans are fucked you cannot bring drinks to work because of that???

TW Gross

My mom told me that when she gave birth to my sister, my sister came out so forcefully my mom shot out a giant cannonball of blood. The doctor caught the baby, said "oh shit" and ducked out of the way real fast, and the blood splattered all over the wall. She was embarrassed, but it was cleaned up. Fast forward 3 years, she's in the delivery room with her sister. And that blood stain was still on the wall. She couldn't help but point it out to her sister and say "I did that"

I love that so much, honestly this story has made my day

OP is British

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So can plastic bottles. Plastic can be sharp and stuff too

I learned this the hard way as well

If you have a can/bottle that you even think might explode rotate it for 1mins and it won't explode

You can also eat pillow filling until you die, at some point you have to accept reality.

Something like a Hydroflask is a FAR better improvised weapon than any soda can. How are they cool with that coming onsite?

I was at a party in college where a girl put a full 2 liter soda bottle into a pillowcase and swung it into some boy's face. He dropped instantly and then I don't know what happened because I decided to leave before the police showed up.

Story time; I’m at the airport and grab a water to refill my canister…and of course, yep, carbonated. But my bottle doesn’t have a flip straw, it’s a full width screw top. Fast forward, I’m watching a movie 10,000 feet up, gets thirsty. Twissst. Nothing. Super stuck. It took all my strength to get it to budge a centimeter, at which point I realize. When I get this off, it’s going to be fucking loud. Twiiiiiiist. Creak. BAM. It’s like a gunshot, and the entire cabin whips around at me, holding a smoking metal canister like a spent cannon shell. My bad

Heads up, milk is also really bad for this. There is a lot of sugar in milk. My daughter needed 2 dental procedures with laughing gas at 5 years old because the sugar in milk ate away at her teeth.

I used to work in a company that supplied a few mental health hospitals, and it was an eye opener just how many things had to be taken into consideration to keep their patients safe. It's not easy, and I can see why that can's can be dangerous as they can be very sharp if you tear them into strips. It made me feel lucky that it wasn't my burden. I did one hospital some long necked, cemented smoke bins because one patient ate the butt's and was really ill, then the replacement were long necked but not weighted which wasn't an issue until someone got hit on the head with one. So we got the Weighted ones sent out. They did the trick, but there was always something, and no matter what contingencies you put in place, a patient in a manic state can be dangerous to themselves with anything that comes to hand. It's nobodies fault, and all you can do is to make everything as safe as possible before incidents happen.

Honestly if you just brush their teeth before bed it isn't a problem to give them juice during the day. I grew up in a dental family and was always told to brush my kids teeth as soon as they start erupting. You can even get them used to it by brushing their gums when they are infants so they don't fight you. Juice and cola aren't going to eat your teeth immediately it is when it is allowed to sit on the teeth. My kids go to bed with a waterborne of water and have since they were toddlers.

In a mental hospital, I'm sure they just have to be seen to be doing their best. Cans can have very sharp edges, so it's much easier to do damage with those, and perhaps wise to remove then as opposed to other more blunt objects.

it's odd and not odd at the same time. Cans, once drunk from, are rubbish, and so using it as a weapon doesn't seem a share. DVDs are never rubbish, they are always useful, so perhaps people's minds don't turn to using them as something else! But i agree it's also a bit silly.

A hello also from another that used to work in such a ward. I talked to some amazing people (old chap who liked to clean the table after food, telling me about how they sanded the tables in the boats when he was in the army) and then some upsetting stuff of course (russian lady just screaming all day) and some funny (if you wanted to get out, just shout "there's the tea trolley!" so they all trundle off happily down the hall and you can use the keypad and escape). It was an adventure.

Tell everyone you tried improving your new office with a touch of Baker Miller pink...

Gin and tonic in the same kind of bottle on a game drive with very bumpy tracks, car smelt like gin for about a week after!

Tell them it's a Banksy.

I figured I would let both ppl know, but I guess they mysterious black box that is Reddit didn’t appreciate me putting the same thing twice

Yes

My wife and I refill our Thermo flask with soda. It’s easy to forget that it will explode when opened. It never fails during a zoom meeting.

You’d be amazed at the amount of things you can hurt yourself with if you put your mind to it. Won’t go into stories, but I’ve had psych nurses ask me how in the hell I did that.

There’s only one thing I could never figure out - at one place, they wouldn’t let me have cheap flip flops for showering. Of course they didn’t answer when I asked what I could possibly do with them lol

Fortunately at a much better place now!

There was a Ghost! This is ectoplasm!

Flatten can long ways, flex the middle untl the edge cracks then tear in half. Instant set of 2" razors.

For real, one of the nurses on my floor has a waterbottle that honestly must hold a few litres, it looks like a dumbell, and I'd hate to be caught over the side of the head with that one

Oh thats interesting tysm for the tip!

Oh yeah, anything and everything can be used to endanger themselves and eachother, it would be fascinating if it wasn't terrifying sometimes haha. Also I do look after a patient that has a bad habit of eating the butts of cigs too so that seems a bit more common than I previously assumed

TIFU by being an average person that makes mistakes

It’s not as much the juice as the child falling asleep with the unswallowed juice and bottle still in their mouth so their mouth ph never balances back out. At least that’s what I was told.

I did this once in elementary school. Went to school with some orange soda in a bottle. Opened it up at lunch and a stream of orange soda shot to the ceiling

I remember some kid who hurt himself with a pencil, my school back then had like these pencils that you could lend if you didn't have one and they were really sharp because that teacher liked it to be organised or some shit. He stabbed himself in the hand saying some shit like he has super strong skin. Spoiler alert: he didnt.

I was in the psych ward and they had to cut the metal nose piece out of our masks because one girl (who I met) had previously used one to cut herself. Fucken EVERYTHING is a potential weapon.

You kinda got restored now 😃

Or just open it before takeoff and close it at altitude

Interesting. I used to work psych intensive care but we didn't have rules like that because our nurse's station was completely enclosed and locked except for a small window near the ceiling over 5 feet up (I had to get on my toes to pass anything through to a patient).

(also worth noting that because of this, and being on the 3rd floor, the nurse's station was hot as a camel's balls in the summer. Regularly 92 degrees while the patients were freezing. So glad I don't work there anymore lol)

True…Reddit works in mysterious ways

And ironically the rule caused OP to make an improvised bomb.

Yeah would’ve been a brutal ride if he was mad about it. Later on in the flight we hit turbulence and everyone was screaming like we were gonna die. Ol boy and my wife were clutching hands, both white as a sheet. Definitely my most interesting flying experience

Haha, I'm glad I got a response after typing that all out!