Originally Posted by
randya
BIC lighter accident
I knew a guy who was sitting in his living room reading the paper, when his dog started acting up and wouldn't behave. After warning the dog verbally w/o results, he threw a BIC lighter at the dog, hitting it in the butt, at which point the lighter exploded like a flash-bang grenade.
There was no damage, but a nice side-effect was that after that, all he had to do was lift his arm like he was going to throw, and the dog would immediately obey.