---
title: "Watch Exploding Fridge Target Practice Fail In The Worst Possible Way"
date: "2017-06-09"
modified: "2017-06-09"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller.md"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/exploding-fridge-target-practice/"
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  - "United States"
  - "Weapons"
tags:
  - "video"
---

# Watch Exploding Fridge Target Practice Fail In The Worst Possible Way

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/19040840-1.png>)

You can fuck up a refrigerator, but sometimes the fridge fucks back.

That’s the gist of the ultra-brief, ultra-dangerous target practice video that went viral after Avery Ball [shared](<https://www.facebook.com/avery.ball.5/videos/vb.100000134251270/1684636851550774/?type=2&theater>) it on his Facebook page on June 4. It depicts a shooter firing on an old refrigerator packed with explosives — and barely escaping with his life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=innlGT0JccQ

It’s unclear what kind and quantity of explosive were in this fridge. Guns.com [suggests](<https://www.guns.com/2017/06/06/hey-watch-out-for-that-flying-refrigerator-door-video/>) that it’s “binary target marking compound” use for gun demonstrations, which suggests Tannerite. (Ball did not immediately respond to inquiries from Task & Purpose).

For comparison, here’s half a pound of Tannerite in a fridge at close range:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYTi5vfS2Ec

Either way, this … is not smart. Even Texas Machine Gun & Ordnance, which shared Ball’s original video, [noted](<https://www.facebook.com/TXMGO/posts/1283852321683279>) the next trigger-happy taxpayer who goes to war with explosives-laden home appliances won’t get away as unscathed as the shooter in this clip.

“If you are using a low-explosive like Tannerite, it is still not something to be a dumbass with. Just because it isn't something sexy like high-explosives, doesn't mean it won't assist Darwin in culling the shallow end of the gene pool,” the Spring, Texas, gun shop wrote in a June 5 [Facebook post](<https://www.facebook.com/TXMGO/posts/1283852321683279>). “Stand-off distance is your friend when dealing with any explosive.”

Any guesses as to what’s happening in this video? Let us know in the comments.

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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