“I didn’t have any water,” Little tells KCRA reporter Emily Maher. “I had one barrel with a little bit of water in it. I tried using that, but it didn’t work ... I had 30 packs of Bud Light in here, and I just grabbed those.”
What Little did next might be known as “shotgunning” or “keying,” depending on where you grew up, but the concept is simple: Shake up a can of beer (carbonated non-alcohol works too), then punch a hole in the side. What results is a forceful but focused spray of liquid that can be directed at one’s fraternity brother, out the back of a pickup truck, or toward an advancing wildfire.
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