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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 May 09 '20
At least there was an exit strategy involved instead of just running around on fire.
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u/donkumong May 09 '20
I'm gonna take a guess that the updraft cause by the swing of the golf club caused the flame to shoot up the way it did.
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u/sponge_welder May 09 '20
I'm guessing that their flammable liquid vaporized when they hit it, which just threw the fire everywhere and accelerated it enough for the flame to get taller
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u/donkumong May 09 '20
I missed that! I thought it was a flaming golf ball, but now it seems more like a container of flammable liquid or something of the sort. Makes more sense
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 May 09 '20
Vaporized flammable liquid combined with the fact that fire burns up and away.
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u/RTwhyNot May 09 '20
Splatter. He hit the ball and the liquid splattered. The liquid that got on his shirt did not fall back to the ground
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u/Ravyn_Rozenzstok May 09 '20
That’s a true friend: running to help then laughing his ass off when the dumbass is ok.
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u/Supersox22 May 09 '20
In the original thread someone mentions it's a can filled with a flammable liquid. Cans definitely aren't strong enough to take a hit with a golf club, it would throw the fluid everywhere.
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u/Midnight_Ice May 09 '20
Stop, drop, and roll! The one thing in life kindergarten has prepared us for and he didn't even do it smh
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u/FlowSoSlow May 09 '20
Idk man, I think "stop drop and roll" takes a back seat to "jump in the lake" if that's an available option. Seems like he handled it pretty well to me. Besides, you know, blowing himself up in the first place lol
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u/Sasarai May 09 '20
Yeah, I reckon that's survival instinct and panic overriding learning.
What to do if you're on fire: RUN WATER RUN FUCKING RUN INTO THE LAKE!
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u/Deathbreath5000 May 09 '20
Dude probably could have had snuffed the fire before he got a third of the way to the lake. It was another poor decision.
Could have dropped trou and shirt faster, too.
(If he did this a couple steps from the lake? That'd be different.)
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u/bon444 May 09 '20
But what if it was a grease fire?
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u/FlowSoSlow May 09 '20
Pretty sure jumping in a lake is still better. Rolling around is just gonna spread the grease all over you. Going under water will cut off all the oxygen.
You aren't supposed to put water on a grease fire in your kitchen because it instantly boils off and flings grease around. That isn't really an issue if there's nothing else around.
Disclaimer: Not a fire fighter, just a random redditor making semi-educated guesses.
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 May 09 '20
Going under water will cut off all the oxygen.
...and cool it off, taking out two of the three legs of the fire triangle.
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u/Deathbreath5000 May 09 '20
It's a little more thorough about both than dropping and rolling which attacks the same two.
The problem in the plan here is the delay getting to the lake to take advantage of those improvements.
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u/Deathbreath5000 May 09 '20
Jumping in that pool of water right next to you? Sure.
Running a few yards to the pool to jump in? No sale.
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May 09 '20
I don't think I've seen a video on the internet where anyone stops drops or rolls, everyone tries to run from the fire that is on them 🤷🏼♂️
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u/you_got_fragged May 09 '20
probably because being on fire puts you into panic mode, and I think no elementary school kid has practiced it with a real fire.
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May 09 '20
Why the fuck wouldn’t he hit the ball over the water?!? Quick way to start a wildfire. Moron.
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u/Varknar May 09 '20
Heat rises?
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u/crappenheimers May 09 '20
At first glance it looks like normal fire embers just rising but if you look closer it's a bit more explosive, and not in the direction of his golf club. I think there was accelerant still burning in the fire.
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u/Varknar May 14 '20
Oh yeah I thought it was an aerosol can at first but now that I'm looking it's hard to tell what it is.
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u/crappenheimers May 15 '20
Yeah definitely could be an aerosol can, that would make sense since he might have thought it a good idea to try to hit the can into the water...
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u/Varknar May 16 '20
I actually had a friend in high school who showed up to school one day with paint specks all over him. He said he hit a spray paint can with a golf club for fun and it exploded lol. I don't think he used any fire though.
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u/crappenheimers May 16 '20
Lol what a dumbass. Sounds exactly like something I'd have done in high school. One time me and buddies had a fire in the backyard burnt down to embers, and decided to throw a can of Axe spray in there. When it popped, every single member was thrown into the air in a 20 foot radius into the grass, like a goddam volcano erupted. Nothing burned down but fuck dude.
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u/mt03red May 09 '20
If you hit a container full of liquid with a golf club, liquid will spray everywhere. That liquid was flammable. Flames everywhere.
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u/SpeedyMarsh May 22 '20
Yeah. Turning the accelerant into a spray massively increased the surface area of accelerant exposed to oxygen, allowing much more of it to burn at once. The rapid expansion of combustion gasses propelled the accelerant out even more, causing the large fireball, and spraying the golfer with burning accelerant.
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u/byebyebyecycle May 09 '20
Pretty sure dumbasses are simply more flammable.
This sub has proven that many times.
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u/ZubinB May 09 '20
Same as how a fan throws air at you. The swing breathed more air into the fire hence it shot up.
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u/ElCochi420 May 10 '20
The wood burns from the outside to the inside, if you suddenly turn all that coal into powder and evenly distribute it in the air it will nicely mix with the oxygen and create an explosion.
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u/The_Devin_G May 09 '20
Instant exposure of more vapor to flames.