I would say that this is fiction and he should postulate and develop whatever is best for his literary premise.

You thinks this happens every day?

Stunningly great idea. Let us hope this becomes a meme.

He is lucky that he turned on the water before moving it. I have seen lots of hoses break into shards when moved in below freezing weather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_(spider)

On gossamer wings.

I got into a fight with a girl I knew for only two weeks when she said that her dream house had a pool and I said we could get one after the children had grown because I think it is dangerous for small children to be around a pool. Took half an hour to calm her down.

Sounds like a triple win for the malcontents: they had the water balloon fight, they were not going to prom any way so getting it cancelled ruined the other students good time, as well they got to tell the principal to shove it. Oh, and I almost forgot: they proved to the whole school community that the principal is an idiot.

This is way too common. My father published a paper in the 70's describing how accidental and intentional coatings on lab glassware caused inconsistent and inaccurate results. Disposable equipment (like Petri dishs) are the worst because labs do not clean them before use and therefore have an unknown variable.

There is a really good joke about this posted on the Internet. Propriety demands I do not even post the link.

Why bother? It will fall out sometime during the next trial and have a similar effect on that jury.