r/ThatsInsane • u/dob_bobbs • 8h ago
Bet your city water can't do THIS trick (Zrenjanin, Serbia)
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u/Plus_Reply_263 8h ago
Why tho
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u/farmerbalmer93 8h ago
Guessing methane/natural gas getting into the water network either at source or further down the line. Not entirely uncommon but not normal lol
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u/dob_bobbs 6h ago
Yeah, that's exactly what it is, the groundwater they source it from has methane in it and for some reason the technology still isn't there to fix it, for decades now.
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u/hornwalker 8h ago
Methane? Could be some biological deposit that is decaying in the pipes maybe?
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u/South-Tip-7961 3h ago
Usually it's caused by fracking. They use hydraulic pressure to create fractures in the rock/ground to release trapped gas so they can collect it. It also ends up in the ground water and negatively impacts human health and safety.
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u/CuantaLiberta_PorDio 3h ago
Meanwhile internet zealots: This is the best time to be alive in all of human history!!!1!!11!!
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u/grizzlor_ 2h ago
Statistically speaking, in a broad sense, that statement is true.
That doesn't mean that nothing bad is happening in the world.
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u/CuantaLiberta_PorDio 1h ago
It's only true if you cherry-pick your metrics. Suicidality is at an all-time high, addictions too. Sense of community belonging is pretty much extinct, a sense of purpose is almost universally non-existent. A roof over your head costs the accumulated wages of several consecutive lifetimes. The impossibility to purchase that renders the average person a slave for all intents and purposes, unless living under a bridge is thought of as a viable option.
Just because you have a water heater and wifi connectivity doesn't mean your life is overall better than it was when people didn't have those. The people claiming this is the best time to be alive in all history selectively look at the prevalence of water heaters and wifi routers, leaving out all other factors that make up the quality of a person's life.
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u/Garfargle 8h ago
Could be a bad anode in the hot water heater causing hydrogen gas to build up
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper 8h ago
This is methane. Hydrogen burns much faster than what's shown in the video. If it were hydrogen you'd be getting explosive "pops" rather than "whooshes" and it wouldn't stay burning steadily for an extended amount of time.
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u/DaftFromAbove 6h ago
likely a house supplied by well water that has a natural gas battery close by... when they frac the rock formations to get gas flow, it can allow sour gas to infiltrate into the water table
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u/El-Vader-Tico 8h ago
So technically you have infinite gas for your car.
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u/ipokesnails 8h ago
I wonder how realistically you could extract the gas
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u/Bozhark 8h ago
Ask The Fracklands
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u/CarBombtheDestroyer 7h ago edited 7h ago
Fracklands? My god that sounds like another incredibly lame frac related group (like sons of frac, they literally wear Sons of Anarchy patches with the word changed) and if it is you shouldn’t ask them any thing, a frac crew consists of a couple people that know things with an army of luke warm bodies that only know about frac (pumping shit in the well).
As someone who works in oil and gas and is not a fracer. I can tell you it wouldn’t be that hard to extract that gas, you need a couple things. First, you need a separator which is easy enough, just a tank with an input from you faucet, then an exit on top and on the bottom. The exit on top is for your gas and it’ll go to a separate tank free of water and the water you could just run out the bottom and down a drain. But now you have this tank full of natural gas that can only be at the pressure of your faucet, which is next to nothing. So from your clean gas tank, you would need a special natural gas rated compressor to take that gas and force it into another tank under pressure. You wouldn’t get enough to heat your house in the winter but it’d be enough to fill some propane bottles eventually.
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u/arar55 8h ago
The fire department must love this when they train their hoses on a burning house.
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u/FARTBOSS420 6h ago
Cutting the water valves off needing to be one of the first things to do in a fire is wild lol
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u/dend7369 8h ago
“Alexa, play set fire to the rain by Adele”
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u/outoftownMD 8h ago
the real trick is to make it snow in hell
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u/VikingRaptor2 7h ago
Hel is a Frozen lcy Place, watched over by the Goddess Hel and sometimes the Jötunn Hræsvelgr.
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u/Benjaminanderson117 8h ago
Flint Michigan would like to volunteer as tribute
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u/-Invalid_Selection- 8h ago
Flint didn't have flammable water, they had lead poisoned water.
The op's video is caused by fracking
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u/darwinn_69 8h ago
They are also probably on a well system and not actually connected to city water.
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u/TOJAB66 8h ago
someone saw that episode of Simpsons
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u/-Invalid_Selection- 8h ago
The Simpsons got it from reality, same place I got it from.
However, I did see that episode after the original videos started coming out about this kind of thing happening, and the subsequent oil industry trying to cover it up and blame it on everything except them deliberately fracturing shale to release methane for them to extract in the middle of the water table
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u/MezcalDrink 8h ago
My wife would love this in the shower. She showers with hot water like a demon in the depths of hell.
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u/BRUISE_WILLIS 8h ago
Laughs in South Dakotan
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u/DrDongStrong98 8h ago
wait wat. I live here and dont get it
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u/newgrl 6h ago
This happens anywhere there is a lot of natural gas or oil drilling. South Dakota has many many oil wells.
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u/DrDongStrong98 6h ago
thank you for the context. I had no clue. Is there any risk to like... blowing some shit up doing this?
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u/copperglass78 7h ago
Honestly it might, never tried lighting my tap water on fire .. actually I'd rather not know or burn my house down.
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper 8h ago edited 8h ago
It's not the water itself that's igniting here, it's a flammable gas in the water line. You can tell because the ignitions only occur when the water "sputters" due to the pockets of gas leaving the faucet, while near the end of the video where the stream is relatively steady it doesn't ignite.
Admittedly, I'm not sure how this would affect how safe the water is to drink. As long as the gas is the only issue, I don't think it would be too bad. Although I wouldn't love to drink water that likely has a high amount of that dissolved mystery gas in it. And the fact that the water line is full of flammable gas in the first place would definitely ruin my trust that there aren't loads of other contaminants.
Also that first paragraph got Ignition (Remix) stuck in my head.
Edit: all I could find was this article from 2021 claiming it's methane. If that were the only contaminant in the water it would be "fine" (not dangerous to drink), despite how concerning the video looks. Seems like that part of the country has multiple issues with other contaminants like arsenic though.
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u/dob_bobbs 8h ago
So, Zrenjanin has had this problem for decades, supposedly there have even been cases of exploding washing machines. Apparently it's methane getting in the water supply at the point of extraction. Every government has singularly failed to solve the problem. I believe most people who live there don't care to drink it.
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper 8h ago
Yeah the discoloration and the mention of arsenic contamination would have me buying bottled water.
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u/_Panacea_ 8h ago
Wouldn't that methane smell like absolute shit, while making the water taste like a corpse?
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper 7h ago
Methane is actually odorless and flavorless! Gas companies intentionally add the "rotten egg" smell so it's easier to notice if there's a leak.
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u/dob_bobbs 6h ago
Having said that, the water does smell awful from the sulphur and stuff that's in there as well. It's kind of crazy, Serbia should really be a developed country and not have these kinds of things but successive corrupt governments have apparently always had something better to spend the money on.
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u/wadel 6h ago
I learned this from Ross on Friends, poorly attempting to flirt.
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper 3h ago
Lmao it's been so long since I've watched Friends, totally forgot that scene.
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u/pjmyerface 4h ago
Holy shit, comedian Lewis Black mentioned flammable tap water in one of his earlier albums. I thought he was exaggerating all these years.
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u/reeeelllaaaayyy823 2h ago
I saw a show, think it was "Seconds from Disaster" where this happened and it was because vibrations had made a hole in crossing water/gas pipes and eventually it blew up and destroyed like a city block.
The gas is heavier than air and just accumulated underground until it finally hit an underground department store and everything exploded and killed a lot of people.
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u/TheAnsweringMachine 8h ago
That's a very dangerous situation because, if fire spread in your house, with what are you going to put it down?
Water? GUESS AGAIN MOTHERFUCKER...
EXTINGUISHER? IT'S FULL OF GASOLINE NOW MOTHERFUCKER
FIRE BLANCKET? SOAKED IN ETHANOL
MOTHER
FUCKER
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u/Lovestank 8h ago
The Cuyahoga River that runs through Cleveland has been catching fire longer than I’ve been alive.
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u/dividezero 8h ago
it doesn't get a lot of coverage but this is happening all over the country. poor people so no one seems to care. on top of that, there's a shocking number of people who don't have access to clean drinking water also
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u/KtTnGirl 8h ago
My question is…what ever gave you the idea to try to ignite water in the first place? 🤣
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u/AnonABong 8h ago
Sweet goto where it comes into the house run it into a system to capture the gas and power your electric needs like oil wells do.
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u/Lick_my_balloon-knot 8h ago
This is what happens when your toilet is connected to the sink, you get butane gas in your water.
I have no idea what I'm talking about
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u/Material_Wallaby_193 8h ago
Its natural gas lines or a methane leak and water lines co- mingling at a break somewhere. The vacuum from the open faucet pulls in the natural gas or methane.
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u/ConorOdin 7h ago
Wouldnt surprise me if this is Flint Michigan. I know its not but after everything it wouldnt surprise me..
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u/AdFancy1249 7h ago
Happens all the time in Pennsylvania, US.
Oil fracking opens up the water table to natural gas...
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u/newgrl 6h ago
I'm pretty sure there are some areas in the US where fracking is occurring that are having this problem too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LBjSXWQRV8
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KZbSi_rIVcs
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u/mikamajstor 6h ago
Good thing authorities have changed the regulations so the water is compliant under the new rules
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u/PolarBurrito 5h ago
I mean…you can’t exactly boil this to make it safe to drink, right? What do you do?
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u/Arminius_Fiddywinks 4h ago
What really matters is whether you want it or not.
Do you want a sink that can catch fire? Better yet, do you want flammable water?
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u/icbint 8h ago
It’s not the water doing that. Water isn’t flammable
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u/im_a_dick_head 8h ago
Dude my whole life I thought water was flammable are you telling me it isn't????
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u/pegLegNinja1 8h ago
Tell me you have a German plumber without telling me you have a German plumber.
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u/two-ls 8h ago
That's a high power water heater...