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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/man-dies-porta-potty-catches-010037254.html

A man was tragically killed outside of the Baltimore Ravens football stadium over the weekend after he attempted to escape a porta potty that had lit up in flames.

The incident happened on Sunday outside of M&T Bank Stadium at approximately 3 p.m., Blair Skinner, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore City Fire Department, told The Baltimore Sun.

After the portable toilets caught fire, the unidentified man was seen running from the blaze — also engulfed in flames himself — by a stadium security guard, Skinner explained to the outlet.

 

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When dropped into water, a common and widely available chemical, calcium carbide [CaC2], reacts with the water to produce acetylene [C2H2], a highly explosive and flammable gas which was once widely used by miners as portable gas lamps ("carbide candles" or "smokers"), and is still used by cavers.

There are many references in books and on the Internet about dropping the chemical into a toilet as part of a practical joke which can be played on someone relieving themselves, especially if they are smokers.

For example, the Anarchist Cookbook suggests "put Calcium Carbine in a dissolving capsule and drop it in a toilet."

https://www.valuewalk.com/2019/02/portable-toilet-fire-death-cac2/

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