One of my claims to fame.

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Just discovered one of my old articles on New Scientist's web site:

Roll of Dishonour

And no, they wouldn't give me an honourable mention in the Darwin Awards. I asked...

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I try very hard to avoid accidents - usually I'm the person who has to clean up the mess. But since I wrote that I've had a silver fulminate explosion and a potassium explosion (both my fault), seen someone else make the classic "put the wrong chemical in the Chlorine generator" mistake and managed to get the fume cupboard shut and everyone safely clear before it exploded, and had to deal with a very bad chemical spillage (an intruded vandalised a chemical store) which ended with multiple sodium explosions during the cleanup. Remarkably nobody got hurt in any of that. Also a few cuts, shocks, etc.

Haven't heard about the show - don't think meth is much of a problem here, but I could be wrong.