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And did you get it? :rolleyes:

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I just have to say: that is AWESOME. I want one. ...EDIT: is it bad it took me a few days to realize I've been had... Probably. But hey, the concept of wireless power is still pretty cool

I guess I'll throw in my best pit announcement as to not completely derail this thread. I'm pretty sure at CTR last year, somebody put in a request for my sanity. It was never found...

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled programming

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The main one i remember from the Oklahoma Regional was one day when the pits were about to close the announcer said "At 8:00 the doors will be shut and locked. At 8:01 the velociraptors will be released." Needless to say we did not hang around to find out if this was the truth.

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While this one cowers beneath the hilarity of the others posted above,
at the Israel regional, we needed a #35 sprocket. So when I went to the PA to ask for exactly that, everyone's head turned - "What?>"
Then someone whispered in my ear to ask instead for a "Galgal Shinayim" (lit: wheel of teeth)

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I fell for it! :p. That's probably one of the better ones I've seen.

-Dave

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What about, "Team XXXX needs some linear motion converters!" (Wheels)

-Dave Powers

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someone asked for a friction-less rod. they were serious (probably looking for delrin or something like it). they got trolled by some teams so the pit announcer had to revise it to low friction rod and tell everyone to stop annoying them (the team) about the mistake.

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in GTR one year some members had the announcer say Congratulations Adam, and <insert girls name here> from team 772 on the proposal!". That was soo funny

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One thing I want to do next year is "Team 2489 needs some sleep."

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I believe we all will by that time. :p

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Though of this one today. Best if you're feeling vindictive or need a laugh:

- Team XXXX lost the game, can someone help them look for it?

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I lost the game.

For Science.

You monster.

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My pleasure.

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Would anyone here be able to tell me if it is acceptable (i.e. will people get mad) to ask someone out to prom over the pa system? (assuming the pit announcer allows me to, of course)

If anyone from my team is reading this, shhh, it's a secret!

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It's probably more than acceptable! The hard part is ensuring said person will hear it. Maybe assign them to listening to the PA system for announcements a few minutes before.

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Good advice, thank you!

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Actually, this has apparently been done before! If you read earlier in this thread, there are accounts of a successful attempt. Best of luck!

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I once asked for a proton torpedo. Actually, my team didn't even know it had been a joke, because they were looking for one when I got back to the pit. :D

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This thread is the main reason why I want to be the Pit Announcer at the MAR District Championship in Philadelphia.

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Clearly someone needs to ask for "that confounded bridge" this year.

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"Will everyone please return the plaid skirts to team 3103. They need them for school Monday."

We always wear our school's uniform skirt to competition and loan extras out to whomever wants to wear one (surprisingly many boys). Never would you think we have a hard time getting them back.

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What's a "confounded bridge"??? :D

Somebody needs to ask for "a dead horse to beat"

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Minibots were 2011.

"Paging Brown. Paging Sweet Georgia Brown."

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This isn't exactly the same, but our team used to have a list of things needed for the electrical sub team. Here are some examples:

Flux Capacitor
Wookie Fur
Hidden Blade
Lightsaber Crystals
Dark Matter

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Note this was my rookie year, and I had little knowledge about pneumatics other than how to acctually spell pneumatics. Anyways, one of my old team mentors told me to hurry up and run the the announcer and ask them to ask other teams if they had pneumatic fluid. Freaking out because there was not much time before out next match i begged the announcer. They gave me the weirdest look and I asked again telling them that we needed it. (This is not a joke at all) My mentor started yelling at me to hurry up and get it, totally playing it off. I come back, almost in tears and he and my mom are laughing..... And then I put 2-and-2 together.. :)

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At Javits NYC regional Im hoping to ask for "35 litres of water, 20 kilograms of carbon, four litres of ammonia, one and a half kilograms of lime, 800 grams of phosphorus, 250 grams of salt, 100 grams of nitre, 80 grams of sulphur, seven and a half grams of fluorine, five grams of iron, three grams of silicon and 15 other trace elements." and in like five minutes proceed to ask for an automail arm, leg and a mop" "the reason...... it didn't work as planned"
or
for a "simlish to english translator because our programers messed up...bad":)

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The first one might be a little long, though funny. I'd go with the second.:)

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i was thinking that too but team captain said i should put it anyway

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Anyone that will never give them up or let them down.
(Team ____ asks for assistance from anyone who will never give them up or let them down...etc etc.)

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This made me happy :D

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...um...could someone translate this for me? (I think they're brewing gunpowder, but what's the 35 liters of water for?)

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Ha! I love that one!

Another great one:

"Team ____ has lost Waldo. If anyone has found him, please show the PA system directors so we can fix it."

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If I'm not mistaken, these are the raw ingredients for the human body. I remember the Cosmos where Carl Sagan mixed them all together in a big jar. Nothing happened.

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You are correct-- but judging from the rest of that request, they're going for "Full Metal Alchemist." It would be pretty hilarious, but I, like others, wonder if it wouldn't be too long.

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It is FMA and i was afraid it would be too long as well

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"Team ____ has lost their current ranking, and would like to have it back. Will ____, ____, and ____ loose their next match to restore it?"

-Laughed so hard at this one. :D

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Not exactly FRC related but BSA....

Asking a rookie camp counselor (Counselor-in-Training, CIT) to go from Scoutcraft to the Waterfront for 200 feet of Shoreline. Very expensive, and the Pioneering class needs it now!

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We asked for a flux capacitor every year. (Classic prank, we're not very creative). Last year, the head mentors had a meeting where they got a notice saying that this is unprofessional behavior and a waste of the FIRST guys' time. :(

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"Hug"
"Act of god"

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I feel like asking for funny things on the PA is going out of style. I'm not sure if this is good or bad.

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The PA people usually don't like the funny requests, at least in SVR and CVR anyways.

As a freshman last year I was suckered into asking for a flux capacitor. Although I saw Back To The Future a few times already, being new I thought it was a real thing that our team required. Needless to say the PA people weren't very understanding when I had asked.

While funny, the not-so-serious things asked for on the PA system take up time and energy, which could be better used to warn a team of an upcoming match, or of a serious question of another team.

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Last year in St. Louis we did:
"Team 771 is looking for (name of a team member). If you see her, please return her to 771"

GTR last year, some team did:
"Team ____ has lost their marbles"
and
"Team ____ is looking for a new robot"

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This year at Wisconsin, I asked for the elements of harmony.

Someone else on my team asked for a taser.

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This year at the Utah regional, I tried asking for a left handed screwdriver, only to find out my mom was the volunteer at the help table... :( Needless to say, I was unsuccessful in my endeavor.

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The Peachtree pit announcer is a funny guy, he just messes with me by saying that a different team needs the item I'm looking for whenever I show up.

Anyway, someone should be like:
"Team xxxx would like to know if anyone knows when the Narwhal Bacons."

Or
"Team xxxx is looking for Mordor, could anyone help them out?"

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4174 asked for a board stretcher...

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Team 3322 is looking for wire stretchers and reversible zip ties.


Just a side note: reversible zip ties exist.

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Team xxxx needs ammo for a ak47
team xxxx needs to borrow a working robot
team xxxx needs a sandwich and so does their robot

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I think the best choice of teams to ask for would be 1337. Oh yes, and the Narwhal Bacons at Midnight.

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At Lone Star 2011, we asked for alcohol. We needed it as a lubricant to get our surgical tubing tire onto the mini-bot. Many of the people in the pits around us did a double take when they heard it. They must have wondered if we had been "driven to drink" :D

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we have tried
"Tom from 2185 is looking for girl-friend :D

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At buckeye a mentor told me to ask for a metric crescent wrench. i just agreed and ran to the station to ask without thinking it through... then i realized he was referring to adjustable crescent wrenches *facepalm* (you suck, arkady)
some poor fellow didn't get the joke and brought us a set of metric wrenches

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Au contraire, metric Crescent wrenches and adjustable metric wrenches both exist. And they are tres cool.


Note that "Crescent Wrench" has multiple official and colloquial meanings. In US vernacular, "crescent wrench" is actually a generic trademark for adjustable spanner, originating from the Crescent(R) brand of hand tools. However, the brand was not limited to adjustable wrenches, and thus metric Crescent(R) wrenches do exist. In some places a further colloquialism has developed for "crescent" as simply any open-ended wrench. (This seems to be considered incorrect more often that the proprietary eponym version though, I believe). Regardless, industry does make adjustable metric spanners, and the Crescent(R) brand is attached to some metric wrenches. However, I don't think Crescent(R) ever made adjustable metric wrenches (no "metric Crescent crescent wrenches").

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My outlook on PA requests is that they're only OK if the Pit Admin is alright with it, and the stress level of the pits is low (For instance, thursday during inspections is definitely not the time to do PA requests). Also, too many requests is just annoying for everyone.

A way PA requests can get a good laugh from people is if other teams join in. At Wisconsin this year, we asked for permission to buzz the tower, which got the other part of the line from another team.

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At GTR west there was an extended knock-knock joke where one team would say, "team xxxx says knock-knock." Another team replies, "team yyyy asks, who's there?" ect.

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I think most teams understand this, and when everybody gets in on it, it only makes things more fun and less stressful. I completely agree that inspection time is off-limits, but those moments after a good PA request when the pits burst out with laughter are absolutely priceless.

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"Whoever borrowed team 418's 10-stone anvil, they need it back." (Stone is a traditional English unit of weight sometimes used for anvils. 10 stone is about 140 pounds.)

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At the Seattle Regional this year, a team asked for a Companion Cube on the PA. There was a lot of giggling in our pit due to the large amount of Portal fans.

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yeah, i saw people commenting on that earlier in the thread. the ambiguity of the term kind of ruined the joke, especially when the guy showed up trying to help us out. a true show of GP on his part :)

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They were a German team, they didn't make it through the end of their first FIRST build season.

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At South Florida Regional we put out a post many teams thought was a joke that was actually real. "If anyone has contact solution, please bring it to team 348, no really, like for eyes, on humans. Once again that's human eye contact solution, team 348." We actually had a member mess up their contacts and they were in dire need, thankfully a team helped us out with that one.

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True (but long) story.
I'm a Neurosurgeon. Towards the end of most lumbar surgeries, I ask the Anesthesiologist to perform a "Valsalva maneuver". This involves closing certain valves on the breathing loop and squeezing the oxygen bag; similar to you taking in a big breath, then trying to exhale with your mouth and nose closed and turning your face red. Since this is a common maneuver, I usually just say loudly, "I need a Valsalva," while looking at the incision through the microscope.
The great part is when we have a new nurse in the room; I will then look at him/her and repeat, "I need a Valsalva." The nurse assumes I am asking for an instrument, but of course there is no such instrument and she/he panics not knowing what or where the instrument is. After a few seconds, we all laugh, and tell the new nurse he/she is now initiated into the Neuro team.

Once again, FIRST prepares students for life in the real world.

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At South Florida regional on Friday our batteries in our label maker had died. I simply went to pit admin to request an announcement that 1251 needed two double A batteries. The annoucer upon making the annoucement says "1251 would like a flux capacitor and two double A batteries." I didn't even ask for a flux capacitor, besides we already have one in South Florida.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ux+capacito r

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-Digital Magnets
-Piston Encoders
-Left Handed Drill

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At Championships last year, we asked Pit Admin for a metric crescent wrench. For those of you who don't get it, a crescent wrench is the same thing as an ajustable wrench, so they can't be metric or otherwise. Pit Admin fell for it though :D

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"Steve from team XXXX is looking for a prom date." (you should ask for this one around prom)

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This reminds me of my uncle who is a retired Air Force captain. He told me once when he was a aircraft mechanic, they'd tell the new guy to bring back 50 feet of flight line for the next morning.

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"Team 1676 needs a 4 inch square of 1/8" unobtanium, and an aluminum magnet."

Yeah, it's OK if they're not busy, but they don't need any grief when they are.

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"Team XXXX is missing their sanity, if anyone finds it please return it at once."

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At CVR, "Team xxxx needs an ID 10 T cable ..."

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Actually, Crescent is a brand name and the do make metric wrenches. These would be "metric Crescent wrenches". The use of Crescent wrench to describe an adjustable wrench is colloquial. That being said, there is no such thing as an adjustable metric Crescent wrench.

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A team asked for a flux capacitor at the seattle regional this year. We gave them one. Then we asked for an angle trisector. They gave us one in return.
http://lockerz.com/s/194888818

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Or you could ask for a RoboProm date :D

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I heard the classic 'left handed wrench and Flux capacitor' at nationals! It made my hour!

I don't know if this one counts, but in the airport waiting for our flight to St.Louis this was said over the Airport's PA:

"Flight 489 is leaving in five minutes, whether your on the airplane or not. Don't whine if you miss it."

I think we should have enlisted this guy as a pit announcer!

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We asked for a sonic screwdriver this year - because we actually needed one.
One of our members brought the Tenth Doctor's sonic to our regional, then proceeded to misplace it.
While his sonic wasn't found, two teams did come by to offer us the Eleventh Doctor's.

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Back when I was a student member, my team once asked for a blow torch at the GLR. Immediately afterwards, Pit Admin went on the air to inform all teams that blow torches were not permitted.

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Someone paged George Burdell at champs. That's what I call epic.

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At worlds this year, a few members of team 217, including myself, asked pit admin for curie to ask for our missing robot cart and return it to our pits. Keep in mind that team 217 was not competing at the champs this year... Before this we tried asking archimedes pit admin for our lost robot, but they just shook their head and threw it away....

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I was just about to ask if anyone had ever asked for pneumatic fluid. It does sound legitimate enough until you think about it.

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At the SBPLI regional, somebody from another team asked us for a flux capacitor, multiple times. When we told him we didn't bring one with us, he proceeded to ask every team in our pit row if they had one.

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We tried to get the announcer at Championships to tell everyone team 4334 was looking for a rubber chicken. Think of all the potential uses!

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I just finished reading that article on Wikipedia...

William Edgar Smith...trolling the Internet before there WAS an Internet.

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But that is a legitimate thing to ask for.... You could have gotten plenty from the Thunderchickens... we left 217 of them in 2851's pit...

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At championship they anounced that a team was missing ponies! LOL i thought it was a joke, but apparently it was true :P

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In my four total regionals, here's what I've heard.
-Flux Capacitor (at every regional, I might add.)
-Team... has lost the game.
-Team... has lost their robot (it was apparently true.)
-Dehydrated water

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For the student called Slim Shady....

LOL

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This whole business of paging for "funny things" is generally really annoying and dumb and adds just more noise to the event.

But "George P. Burdell" - okay I'll have to give you that one :)

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I'm very concerned that an announcement wasn't made that the solid form of dihydrogen monoxide was precipitating. I mean the damage caused by that alone at the Championship event was in the $10,000s. ::rtm::

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Air is a fluid. Just to be technical. :D

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At this Championships our team brought supporters from the other team in our city who weren't competing turns out they needed a serial mouse driver for the cRIO ;)

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My mentor found a massive cable splicer (we learned what it was afterwards) on the side of the road and brought it with us. I went around 10k Lakes asking people for a spare bit for it, which elicited some amusing reposes.

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Don't know which team was giving it out, but I managed to get some headlight fluid in a tube. Did you know it glows?

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Last year (logomotion), at the houston regional, my previous team (2276) needed rubbing alcohol...

The pit admin said "team 2276 would like alcohol".

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And we never found them :( ...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=106002

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A screwdriver at an FLL competition!!?:confused:

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if a robot was running co2 in its pneumatic system it would be stored as a liquid...

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At the Buckeye Regional '12 I heard multiple teams ask for programming help

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A cup of joe and a 10 pack case of Monster. Happend at Prudue Reginals this year.

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It depends on the pressure it is stored at, if it were under 125 lbs (it would have to be or the relief valve would open) it would still be a gas unless it was REALLY cold. Besides, whether gaseous or liquid, it is still a "fluid"