How did nitrous get such a bad rep...?

Oh and the bonneville car, after the record was set, we stuck the big pills in it and went for broke. And that’s excactly what happened. It backfired and blew the plastic intake apart. It was great. First pic is just after they put the fire out. Second pic is what’s left of the intake. Call it a tuning error, call it part failure, whatever. The end result is the same.