scruffy said

novocaine said  
One night we were walking home from the place we used to jack them from and being a little bit stoned we were hella paranoid, we thoughthe cops were stalking us, so my mate dropped the bottle and the head hit the side of the pavement and the bottle rocketed offdown the street, when we foudn it, it had traveled nearly 3 miles i woulld had to guess. probably very lcky it didnt kill anyone.    

three miles?  like, fifteen thousand feet?  

high-powered rifle bullets dont travel that far.  granted, they are ballistic objects, but theyre very streamlined and fast moving ballistic objects.  

how big were these bottles?  

  

i could be wrong. it was mostly down hill aswell. all i know is we found it at the end of the street which was somewhere between 1 and 2km ( i really cannot remember the exactly). the bottle was an F size, which is about 3ft tall.

Im aware that it seems impossible, and it may have been someone picked it up when it stopped and carried it off, we were after all very high already ahahah it seemed weirdly improbably to us at the time, but we just took it as face value, we were also shitty that we lost a night of wubbing hahah

yeah it was all very very bizzare. ive seen gas bottles go off before, and never seen one go dead straight. 

At my last job, we had a saftey cleanup and i found about half a dozen G size bottles (like 5'5") underneath one of the dongers out the back, they were really old bottles, and they had pump handles instead of a tap head. as i was rolling one it the pump handle opened and i got a blast in the face. Looking back it was hilarious, but at the time i actually shat my pants a little bit. The bottle was the color code for acetylene, which is anyone knows about welding gases, it is incredibly dangers and flammable. 

I bolted inside to evacuate and  everyone went outside. when nothing exploded or caught fire after about an hour, we went back in to check on it. turns out it was an old Co2 bottle which back in the 70's used the same colouring as acetylene uses now. so until i left, i was the butt of many shitty jokes.