Rare footage of the event ...
//two race-car mechanics sat on top of a cylinder or drum of methanol (?) and lit it off//
Did they get their legs blown off?
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/98960929.html
snip:
Harborview Medical Center confirms that Tyson Perez died Thursday morning.
Perez and Travis Rilat, 33, were both badly burned after they apparently put about four gallons of methanol in a 55-gallon barrel in the parking lot Sunday night, sat on top and lit it on fire for a “barrel ride.”
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The wording makes it sound like a “barrel ride” is a known activity? Sounds pretty dangerous no matter how you would go about it. Later in the article it said part of the drum was found 120 feet away. I’m sure glad I never died from all the dumb stuff I did. Although I was 13 and not 33 at the time.