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Claim: Rating: About this rating True Here at Snopes, we are all too familiar with baseless, fearmongering posts on Facebook. Sometimes, however, these rumors actually have merit. Back in 2010, we investigated a claim that homemade bombs – made out of popular drain clog remover Drano and aluminum inside a plastic bottle – presented a real danger to the public.
More recently, social media posts warning about the phenomenon were once again circulating on Facebook and in our mailbox in mid-September, 2024. One particularly popular copypasta read as follows: Kids are putting Drano, tin foil, and a little water in plastic drink bottles and capping it up - leaving it on lawns, in mail boxes, in gardens, on driveways etc. just waiting for you to pick it up intending to put it in the rubbish, but you'll never make it!!! If the bottle is picked up, and the bottle is shaken even just a little - in about 30 seconds or less it builds up enough gas which then explodes with enough force to remove some your extremities.
The liquid that comes out is boiling hot as well. Don't pick up any plastic bottles that may be lying in your yards or in the gutter, etc. Pay attention to this.
A plastic bottle...
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