You know how you watch TV shows and they have a "Do not try this at home" disclaimer? Some people are just the sort to ignore such warnings.

A party trick gone awry Saturday caused an explosion that ripped open the legs of the host and was so loud neighbors thought it was a blown transformer, police said.

John Winkler, 28, suffered serious injuries in the explosion at his River Rock Boulevard home and was still in the hospital Sunday after a glass container blew up on his legs. Murfreesboro Fire Department and police were called to the home just before 9 p.m.

"The call came out as a hazardous materials call," said Murfreesboro Police Officer Scott Newberg, who was dispatched to the scene at 8:56 p.m.

Newberg and his partner Mark Wood found Winkler with serious injuries, mainly to the thighs.

"He had muscle and tendon out of it and had lost a lot of blood," said Newberg.

Winkler sat cradling a large glass container, filled it with rubbing alcohol, added compressed air and lit it, "which essentially turned it into a bomb, and the glass basically ripped his legs wide open," Newberg said.

That boy needs to have his pipeline to the Jack Daniel's distillery cut off.