There needs to be a limit on Silly String sold

[reimero]

I've actually heard of one useful application of silly string: soldiers, SWAT teams and persons in similar positions entering areas which may be booby-trapped or mined like spraying a burst before entering a room, because the stuff points out where tripwires might be.

Go figure.

[Draevis]

at least silly string has been reformulated to be non/less-flammable.
There was an incident caught on video in the States where a birthday party went very wrong.
The birthday kid was about to blow out the candles on their cake, when another kid spayed some silly sting into the birthday kid's face. The stream passed through the candle flames, caught fire, and proceeded to burn and stick like napalm.

[Ravenzfire]

I have an undying hatred for silly string, brought on by an incident that happened when I was 13. My church youth group went on a retreat, and THE ADULTS COATED US IN SILLY STRING WHILE WE WERE SLEEPING. I was under a table and woke up with strands of it wafting into my face like spiderwebs... *shudder*

Sort of the same issue, but with shaving cream.

I was on a youth group retreat as a leader one year. We were sleeping in our cabins when in the middle of the night I woke with an urgent need to visit the fascilities, immeadiately. This actually saved me as there were no bathrooms in the cabins so I had to head down to the main building.

When I came back and was opening the door to the cabin, I had the door flung open in front of me and our head youth leader was standing there brandishing a broom with a fierce look on his face. We were both kind of surprised and I explained where I was coming from. He then had me come in and told me we had been shaving cream bombed. Apparently when you take a can of shaving cream, which is under high pressure, and puncture the bottom or side, it then empties itself...rapidly and in all directions as it spins around. You can actually turn them into hand grenades of a sort. Just use a screwdriver to punture the bottom and leave it in. Then "pull the pin" and toss.

Needless to say there was shaving cream EVERYWHERE. There had been 3 or 4 cans tossed into the cabin and it made a huge mess. We suspected another church's group but had no way to prove it was them. The camp ground was a little unhappy with our groups due to some other incidents and not wanting to make matters worse, our youth leader got everyone that wasn't already awake up to help clean it. Luckly it wasn't given time to harden so it wasn't a huge deal, just a pain to do at 3 in the morning.

[LadyAndreca]

Heh. Mine was the -ADULTS- that did it. I felt so betrayed, because here we are, on a serious religious retreat that's supposed to be helping us decide the course of our adult spiritual lives (it was our confirmation retreat), and our confirmation sponsors are pulling grade-school stunts and not treating it seriously at all. I wanted to complain, but who could I tell? The people who I'd have trusted to talk to were IN ON IT.

I might be a bit bitter about it still...

[Ironclad Alibi]

This thread needs to be accompanied by the Shaving Cream Song.

[Cyphr]

Did you know that if you freeze a can of shaving cream you can cut the can open and get a block of frozen shaving solids?

Furthermore, did you know two of these will fill a camry to to brim with creamy goodness once they thaw?

Thank goodness it wasn't my car that got prank bombed

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Just saying real quick, somebody wrote graffiti on the mall's wall with neon pink and neon green silly string a couple days ago.

What did they write?

"Hello"

[dalesys]

..."Hello"

Didn't want to face a blobscenity charge.