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Location: nottingham, england. cornwall wales denmark or pra...
Not actually a post about long sunny afternoons of contact in the sunshine. have a look at this.
M Vandrot, 24, who is studying botanics at Edinburgh University, left the ball on his windowsill while he visited the city’s Royal Botanic Garden. By the time he returned, the ball had destroyed his own and two other flats, and had left several others uninhabitable.
have a look at the full thing,its this article here
not actually a contact juggler but a psychic, but we all know contact balls focus light and can burn things right?
be careful out there.
my original signature was tooo long.
this one is shorter
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
I was actually ordering a clear one this morning, and there was that very warning on the site...clear, acrylic balls can act as a magnifying light in the sunshine, so it is best to carry and store your ball in a soft pouch.
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
I think UCOF was lighting Myncis cig at a clapham meet with a cj ball
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
1 + 1 = 3
3,540 posts
Location: Bristol UK
I do that all the time... Light cigarettes with my contact ball, that is. I've not burned anything down, yet.
I also found that the acrylic balls will melt when left in the sun long enough, too... And they burn sock poi, and melt the plastic covering of those cheap, nasty chairs you get in uni accommodation...
Also, head stalls in the sun REALLY hurt. so does stalling the ball anywhere in the sun for that matter...
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
3,380 posts
Location: At the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
it's scary to think that a little ball could do that
it was pretty impressive when UCOF was lighting Mynci's cigarette.
THWACK!!!!
Liz_Ard: Ouch!
SNOOPoi: Thats just not the sound of someone doing it right!
1,019 posts
Location: Huddersfield + Hull Uni... UK.
He didn't see that coming.
Willy - is bad for your health...
2,443 posts
Location: nottingham - the land of opportunity lol!
thank god my cj ball is red plastic
Shhhhhh! the boobies are trying to sleep.
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*i was a caterpilla last night 
* - libby_tuesday
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
4 ball pyramid moves but the sun is still consistant enough through it that it will blister.
I have also used them to start a camp fire and to burn a design in a piece of wood.
Mine didn't come with a warning though (years ago). I learned the painful way.
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
OOOh OOOh OOOh i have a crystal ball (was expensive) and i used to have it on a wooden radiater shelf. one day i was polishing the shelf and behind the ball was a huge burn on the wallpaper. It's away in its box these days!!!
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