Kids, don't try this at home.....

or anywhere else for that matter.

Man killed when beer keg explodes

My second thought after "That poor guy!" was "Don't they have deposits on kegs in Connecticut?"

 

C'mon . . . they'd just finished a keg. It's not hard to figure out the result when liquored up people have the choice of "40 bucks--cool explosion . . . 40 bucks--cool explosion, ah, it's on the credit card anyway--what the hell!"

 

Goddamn, being in this business is killing me. The biggest thing I saw in the story was AP using "over" instead of "more than."

 

$40 deposit?

Seems to me they're around $70 here, depending on the size of the keg.

I still don't get how someone would think that was a good idea.

 

Link to the MySpace profile of the man who died: http://www.mydeathspace.com/article/2006/10/22/Sean_Caselli_(22)_was_killed_by_an_explosion_after_a_Keg_was_thrown_into_a_fire

 

Reading the comments his friends left him are pretty fucked up. Especially the one that is written before he goes to said party where he dies:

 

$40 sounds about right for a quarter keg. And I have the compelling urge to try that just to see what it's like when the entire neighborhood shakes from the explosion.

 

I must admit, it's been a long time since I bought a keg, and longer still since I had to put out a cash deposit. I gladly defer to you on this

However, when there are boozed up people involved, I don't think the extra $30 would make a difference. It wouldn't have when I got hammered at keg parties.

 

Geez. I've hosted a kegger or three in my college days and the deposit was $60. And that was 12 years ago.

 

RIP, you drunk. Oh, and sorry about losing the deposit, too.

 

It's tough enough to send young adults out into the world without some fucking douchebag tossing a keg into a fire.

I mean WTF? I did more drugs, drank more beer, downed more shots and cut a gaudier swath through the female population of the eastern seaboard's finer educational institutions than any dozen of your average 20-somethings ever dreamed of, and even at my most inebriated, I'd never toss a keg into a fire. That's just fucking stupid. And whoever did it should spend 10 years in federal pound them in the ass prison.

 

When I was in high school, I put a can of beer in the fire. Even that was a pretty good pop, so I can't imagine what the keg did.