You guys shoulda had seal repellent bombs -- thing tubes about a quarter the length of a dynamite stick, used in the days of the tuna fishing fleet to keep seals away from the nets at work. Thing was they would burn under water. Friend of mine wandered down the boardwalk at Belmont Park in the old days, wandered into one of those beach front men's rooms and found a bunch of layabouts in there shooting dice. So he goes around them into the utilitarian toilet stall, takes a leak and then drops a lit seal bomb into the toilet without flushing it.

He walks out and joins his buddy on the boardwalk. Thirty seconds later there is this horrific KABOOOOOOOM!! and the dice players come running out of the men's room, water in their hair and clothes.

"My Gawd!!" shouted one, "Someone blew up the COMMODE!".

My friend strolled into the men's room and discovered there was nothing but a hole left of the toilet. I suppose he's lucky there was a steel stall around it to contain the shrapnel. He went out again and the two boys walked away very slow and normal like, just as the cops came running up. But they weren't even stopped.

He cracks up about that to this day.

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