Posted: 1/28/2010 9:56:43 AM EDT
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/3269745/Frozen-car-explodesFrozen car explodes AP Last updated 08:00 28/01/2010 A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the bonnet. "He burned the vehicle out completely," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Hildesheim. Police said the man left the heater on next to the frozen windscreen washer tank and returned indoors. Shortly afterwards he heard two explosions and returned to find the car ablaze. He alerted fire services, who arrived in time to prevent the flames destroying his house. Including charring of the building, total damages were estimated at 40,000 euros ($US56,240). |
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This man's idiotic ideas should have come under fire by the watchful eye's of neighbors. and then what? there'd just be a heated discussion between two flaming euro-liberals about the alarming potential for scorching the nearby woodlands. it happens more often than not, you take two combustible people, one of whom is on supplemental oxygen, and you get a pyrotechnic argument. i'm absolutely intumescent over this whole thing. ar-jedi |