Monday, May 9, 2011

Missteps along the way to harnessing the awesome destructive power of the Bic lighter.

"My dad says butane's a bastard gas." -- Bobby Hill.

Explosion in Kent apartment causes severe burns to one man.

I don't know what this guy was doing, but he probably wishes he hadn't been doing it. Great pictures.

4 comments:

Sean said...

What country, and if the US, did this happen in? Why do these people not say what state?

Anonymous said...

Probably one of those big lighters they use for crack pipes. Thank God he didn't have two of them. I imagine the neighbors are somewhat pissed.

Anonymous said...

Butane is used as an organic solvent for things like extracting hash from marijuana, among other things.

TPaine said...

Most probably a meth lab gone horribly wrong. Since he wasn't the only one in the apartment when the big boom happened, I'd say all involved were very lucky.