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Gas explosion levels house, blows man out front door after he turned on bathroom light
New York Daily News ^ | 03/03/2015 | Jason Molinet

Posted on 03/03/2015 6:41:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: albie
Yeah. I’ll bet his family is putting together a stand up routine as we speak.

Maybe he can get an HBO special ...

21 posted on 03/03/2015 7:55:25 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

It’s not funny. My mom was horribly burned in such an explosion and I missed walking right into it by half a second.

it was unoderized wellhead gas in a gas drilling camp in the hills of Northern New Mexico back in 1956.

A friend, near here, of mine lost his sister to burns when she started up her washing machine kept in the well house of their farm. Mud daubers had blocked the vent that allowed natural gas in the well water to bleed off and the washroom was filled with unoderized natural gas.


22 posted on 03/03/2015 7:55:49 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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23 posted on 03/03/2015 8:31:01 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
It’s not funny.

It isn't? I think it's comedic gold.

24 posted on 03/03/2015 9:07:14 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Mud daubers had blocked the vent that allowed natural gas in the well water to bleed off and the washroom was filled with unoderized natural gas.

Can't be true. Everybody knows nat gas only gets into well water as a result of fracking.

25 posted on 03/03/2015 9:19:23 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: IronJack

Think about having to look at your mother’s scars for 45 years after. Think about how she is shunned by all. Think about how it drove your dad to drink when the beautiful woman he married was no longer beautiful.


26 posted on 03/03/2015 9:25:17 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: IronJack

Google BURN VICTIMS then hit images and tell me how funny it is.


27 posted on 03/03/2015 9:27:29 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I don’t think I’m the only one finding humor in this.


28 posted on 03/03/2015 9:41:11 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

When I have guests over and they start making burn jokes I pull out the old photos the hospital took of her. they shut up real fast.


29 posted on 03/03/2015 9:51:19 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SeekAndFind

Something like this happened to my Great-Grandmother when I was young.

She lived in a cottage behind my grandparents. The heat was propane. It burped and the pilot light went out, then the refrigerator made a spark.

Fortunately for her, the door to the bedroom was closed. The explosion blew the front door out of the frame, turned it around and made it where you could open the door into the ground.

In her bedroom, the plaster was blown off the wall in a circle around her bed. The rest was held up by a picture of Jesus on the wall.

Years later, I lived in the cottage. The picture of Jesus was still hanging on the wall. When I moved out, I took the picture with me. Still have it too. I’m looking for a place on the boat to hang it.


30 posted on 03/03/2015 9:58:15 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Your parties must be a riot.

Put the victim album away.

31 posted on 03/03/2015 10:17:48 AM PST by IronJack
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