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Normally I don’t post videos like this because my sense of schadenfreude doesn’t run deep enough and I’m not a 20-year-old college frat boy. However, I would like to point out that this video of what happens when you mix a baseball coupled with high velocity to a can of WD-40, may seem like an act of stupidity but really showcases some real outside-the-can-of-penetrating-oil thinking.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmaLy_LVIOA]

Now all we see is the boy smashing the can with a baseball bat. We have no prior frame of reference. Maybe his family was murdered by WD-40 and this is an act of vengeance. Perhaps this is just a large-scale game of whack-a-mole gone horribly, horribly wrong.

But even in the face of defeat (and a giant ball of fire), this young lad has discovered a simple and effective way to rid yourself of eyebrows. Furthermore, he remembers to stop, drop, and roll, whereas I know I would not have taken a baseball to a pressurized container of oil in the first place.

So before we judge too harshly on mishaps such as these, let us try to look on the brighter side as it engulfs us in flames.

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