Gassy German cows blamed for barn explosion

MySanAntonio.com ^ | 01/28/2014 | unknown

[red-dawg]

BERLIN (AP)

[red-dawg]

BBQ Anyone?

[thackney]

Hard to imagine a barn that was built vapor tight, holding in lighter than air gases.

[Mercat]

Germans

[NFHale]

I “herd” about this...

[NFHale]

... it happened RIGHT after the farmer said “Hey! Johann! Pull my finger!”

[skeeter]

I expect this is how my Boston Terriers will kill me one day.

[MrB]

Weren’t we just referring to something like this?

[Obadiah]

Somewhere Mrs. O’Leary is smiling at the vindication.

[School of Rational Thought]

They’ve weaponized cows Jim!

[KarlInOhio]

They needed cowtalytic converters to burn off the methane.

[gr8eman]

Wonder how much old hay was in that barn!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Didn’t Gassy German Cows open for The Human League back in the 80’s?

[KarlInOhio]

They needed cowtalytic converters to burn off the methane.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[ConservativeStatement]

Colonel Hogan, I smell nothing!

[NFHale]

The cows names were Elsie....Bossy.... Assy.... and Gassy...

But... this story sounds like...

wait for it....

here it comes...

“UDDER bullsh*t!”

(I’m cracking myself up over here...)

[Farmer Dean]

Don’t feed the cows kraut when they’re penned up in the barn.

[a fool in paradise]

A herd of dairy cows nearly lifted the roof off their barn in central Germany when methane released by the animals caused an explosion.

"Who cut the cheese???"

[xsmommy]

good grief, you’re prescient! ; )

[alloysteel]

Manure pits, or deep beds of animal litter, can generate explosive quantities of methane. But the usual result is not an explosion, but a mass death of the animals in confinement, asphyxiated by the ammonia and methane fumes that build up.

Not so much that the facility was vapor tight, as the ventilation system (usually large exhaust fans) failed in some way, allowing the accumulation of the fumes.