Welcome to the Health and Safety preparedness meeting for the Kart Championship of Thailand. Can we talk about the starting ceremony? We have a lovely collection of hydrogen-filled balloons.

And to mark the start of the main races, we will release them into the air.

Then we will launch some fireworks and…
Hang on! You are going to launch fireworks into the air close to some balloons full of Hydrogen? Do you have any idea what sort of explosion that will create if the two make contact? Do you want flaming debris falling into the crowd?
Mai pen rai krap, that will never happen….

Comments 🔗
2010-07-11| Jay sayshow did u manage to get a pic in the split second ? you were expecting it ??? :P
2010-07-11| Qon saysgreat pic…. classic OIT shot
2010-07-11| Spike saysJay, it was either:
- Years of experience and the reactions of a panther. or
- Luck
I had just taken a photo of the balloons and then they suddenly went bang; the shock of it triggered a press of the shutter button!
2010-07-11| Pete saysWhat numbnuts fills balloons with Hydrogen?? Great picture though, did that lone purple one manage to escape the inferno?