Never attempt to pop it

No way this is real. About as real as this movie.

release the pressure at the valve.

This is why Canada uses square tires.

If not bubble wrap, why bubble wrap shaped?

Why not just bleed the air out using the valve?

There’s no way I’d be able to stop myself

When a truck tire explodes, the energy released can be significant. A study calculated the potential energy stored in a Caterpillar 777 off-highway truck tire used in mining and determined that the energy released in an explosion could be comparable to a specific amount of TNT, highlighting the risks of fatalities and damage to facilities. nearby.

There was a story recently about a guy working at an airport working aircraft maintenance and he was doing something with an passenger jets tire and it exploded, killing him. Aircraft tires are put inside a steel cage win when being worked on.

Thats why you always use the cages when swapping truck tires.

Had that once on one of my tires, the day it popped out it sounded like an explosion, good thing no one was around.