Cleaning Chemicals Cause Car Explosion

Fox Memphis ^ | Mar 5, 2009 | Amy Cowman

[An Old Man]

Ya can't make this stuff up!

[SandRat]

Send it to Myth Busters they’ll love this one.

[Paladin2]

So, is the car clean now?

[zipper]

My mother always told me smoking is dangerous.

[txnativegop]

I hope she makes a speedy recovery.

[TCats]

And of course, before she lit up there was no overpowering smell of vapors sufficient to explode. Right. Maybe Darwin Nominee?

[Sherman Logan]

Gum removers use some highly volatile dry solvents. They will most definitely go boom if confined and ignited.

[Star Traveler]

Hmmm... a “terrorist car bomb” that can get past the dog sniffers... :-)

[Sherman Logan]

People who smoke have limited sense of smell. And if you work around the stuff all the time, like I used to, you more or less stop noticing the odor after a while.

OTOH, I never blew up my car. (Although I did set a truck on fire one time. A whole other story.)

[downwdims]

That’s what I was thinking

[An Old Man]

So, is the car clean now?

On the Video available at the link, it would appear that her sedan is now something like a semi convertible.

[mylife]

The technical name? “Goo Gone”

[cynwoody]

I hope she makes a speedy recovery.

On the video they reported she's already out of the hospital. It's amazing she wasn't hurt much more seriously.

[DeaconRed]

As Paul Harvey used to say:
Her name Was. . .

[cynwoody]

Speaking of car explosions, here’s a commercial from a couple of years ago that touts the structural integrity of the VW Polo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4fagTyaM4

[ASOC]

WHat an education - now the lady knows about lel and uel.

And you thought bleach was bad ppppffffftttttt - it ain’t a thing to bubble gum remover

[txnativegop]

Not to make light of her situation, but she might not have to pluck her eyebrows anytime soon, if nothing else.

You have to find something good even in something so bad.

[Amadeo]

She found out about the LEL the hard way.

[Jeff Chandler]

She didn't think a lot about them

[yazoo]

“Send it to Myth Busters they’ll love this one.”

Actually, this one is plausible. It sounds as if she had a product called GOOF OFF (bubble gum remover) in her car. If it leaked and evaporated, which it does very quickly, it would likely have ignited when she lit her cigarette. In a closed car it would do a mini version of a house exploding when there is a gas leak.