Molotov cocktails and fireworks don't mix

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http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52208070-78/cannon-shaft-mine-students.html.csp

BYU students, others burned while firebombing mine shaft

By Erin Alberty

The Salt Lake Tribune

First published Jul 17 2011 10:53PM
Updated Jul 18, 2011 07:07AM

About a dozen college students suffered burns Saturday while dropping gasoline bombs into a mine shaft near Eureka.

A group of Brigham Young University students had been dropping Molotov cocktails through a grate covering a mine shaft along U.S. Highway 6 between Elberta and Eureka, said Utah County sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon. The mine is in the Bergin system of the Tintic Mining District.

Another group of college-age adults arrived and shot fireworks into the shaft, which is a popular site for illegal pyrotechnics, Cannon said.

"I’ve arrested people for this a number of times," he said. "It’s kind of a college kid gathering place. They make gas bombs and drop them down the mine shaft. A bomb hits the wall of the mine shaft and sends a huge fire ball up 200 feet in the air. ... It’s pretty spectacular, but it’s incredibly, incredibly dangerous."

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1. I learned not to play with gasoline when I was about eight.

These people are idiots.