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Washing machine explodes after petrol used as detergent
Posted: 2003-10-13 11:56am
by BoredShirtless
Washing machine explodes after petrol used as detergent
October 14, 2003
A man who used petrol to clean colour-stained trousers in his washing machine saw the whole lot blow up, wrecking two walls of his Moscow apartment, police said.
He poured a litre of petrol into the rinse chamber in an attempt to fix the colour-run trousers. When he turned on the machine, the whirring action ignited the petrol and led to a huge explosion.
Other residents of the apartment building escaped with a fright.
The fire brigade said it would give the man a few lessons in how to deal with flammable liquids, Itar Tass news agency said.
That was pretty creative of him. Pity the stupid machine had to blow his idea away.
Posted: 2003-10-13 12:00pm
by Zac Naloen
The fire brigade said it would give the man a few lessons in how to deal with flammable liquids,
this made me laugh, i dunno why
Posted: 2003-10-13 12:03pm
by Xenophobe3691
ROTFWTIMELMAO!!!
Dammit, I should try that as a prank...
Posted: 2003-10-13 12:04pm
by neoolong
That is so cool. Sure, it's dangerous and stupid.
But it's also very cool.
Posted: 2003-10-13 12:07pm
by Soontir C'boath
Wow, if I ever get this pos of a washing machine trash I am going to see if i can find an outlet and do the same thing.
Street Lampost should have a connector somewhere.
~Jason
Posted: 2003-10-13 01:10pm
by Zaia
Huzzah! America isn't the only place of residence for the unconprehensibly stupid!
Posted: 2003-10-13 01:21pm
by Montcalm
[Red Foreman]DUMBASS[Red Foreman]BWAHAHAHAHA potential Darwin Awards for a nice atempt.
Posted: 2003-10-13 01:22pm
by Gil Hamilton
Man, it says something that I have the incomprehensible urge to try that. It's the same urge I had when I saw on the can of Clarosil that the acne pads were flammable and should be kept away from an open flame (as it turned out, the pads weren't all that flammable, after all).
Posted: 2003-10-13 03:19pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
As they say, common sense isn't so common. Maybe he'll try using gasoline instead, next time.
Posted: 2003-10-13 03:31pm
by Tribun
I always knew that the 08/15 Russian always looks for a solution for his problems.
Only this time, it was really brain-dead....
Posted: 2003-10-13 03:37pm
by Sea Skimmer
Still doesn't beat the incident with the steam, the cook and the nuclear icebreaker.
Posted: 2003-10-13 03:48pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
How inconspicuous...you wake up in the morning and there's an innocent looking washing machine in your front lawn. You move in to inspect it, and then they plug in the extension chord....
Ouch.
Posted: 2003-10-13 04:09pm
by Vertigo1
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:As they say, common sense isn't so common. Maybe he'll try using gasoline instead, next time.
Petrol IS gasoline dummy.
Posted: 2003-10-13 04:14pm
by Shogoki
Watching a washing machine blow up would be soooo cool, now I want to do it too.
Posted: 2003-10-13 04:17pm
by CmdrWilkens
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:As they say, common sense isn't so common. Maybe he'll try using gasoline instead, next time.
As was stated Petrol is gas, if he had used diesel (or Kerosene for that matter) it would have caught on fire but would not have exploded. in fact there is an extremely narrow range of liquid vs vapor that you can get diesel based fuels to explode at (the vapor has to be 1-8% of the total volume of air)
Posted: 2003-10-13 04:46pm
by The Duchess of Zeon
Sea Skimmer wrote:Still doesn't beat the incident with the steam, the cook and the nuclear icebreaker.
Fuck, that one was for real?
Posted: 2003-10-13 04:56pm
by phongn
The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Sea Skimmer wrote:Still doesn't beat the incident with the steam, the cook and the nuclear icebreaker.
Fuck, that one was for real?
That's exactly what I thought...
Posted: 2003-10-13 04:59pm
by fgalkin
Shogoki wrote:Watching a washing machine blow up would be soooo cool, now I want to do it too.
Russia, the birthplace of all cool ideas.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-10-13 05:41pm
by Jadeite
Sea Skimmer wrote:Still doesn't beat the incident with the steam, the cook and the nuclear icebreaker.
WTF? What happened?
Posted: 2003-10-13 05:45pm
by Darth Yoshi
Why did he do this, again?
Posted: 2003-10-13 05:48pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
Darth Yoshi wrote:Why did he do this, again?
"He poured a litre of petrol into the rinse chamber in an attempt to fix the colour-run trousers."
Why he thought gasoline would fix his pants, I don't know. It's probably a false alibi though. He really wanted to see something explode. Lucky bastard.
Posted: 2003-10-13 05:49pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Sea Skimmer wrote:Still doesn't beat the incident with the steam, the cook and the nuclear icebreaker.
Would this be on the
Yamal? I was just reading about that today.
Posted: 2003-10-13 06:08pm
by Nathan F
This, children, is why those washing machines say "Don't wash oil soaked textiles in this machine."
Posted: 2003-10-13 06:18pm
by Howedar
phongn wrote:The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Sea Skimmer wrote:Still doesn't beat the incident with the steam, the cook and the nuclear icebreaker.
Fuck, that one was for real?
That's exactly what I thought...
Jesus, I thought Clancy made that up!
Posted: 2003-10-13 06:30pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Ah, the Lenin incident.