If the expansion/movement of air was above 300m (or is it feet?) per second upon release, it literally exploded (that's the technical difference between a flamable and explosive when you have a fuel source, just my little tism there). So yeah, you had a less fiery and shrapnel-y bomb. Absolutely FUCK whoevers ears were right next to that thing!
You remember the bit a few years back about the liberal pansy who fired an ar? "It was load, like a bomb!", yeah, let these guys try slashing a truck tire. Out of my own wickedness and want of schadenfreude, I want a woman to try