Man torches car battling frost
Wed Jan 27, 2:40 pm ET
BERLIN (Reuters) – 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 hood.
"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 windshield 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 from destroying his house. Including charring of the building, total damages were estimated at 40,000 euros ($56,240).
(Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Steve Addison)
3 comments:
And I thought it was cold here.
at least he wasn't standing by it when it exploded.
I always wonder about these things. They most often are datelined Berlin. How can so many dummies live in Berlin. Besides, sounded like a pretty good idea to me.
CP
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