[Petronski]

When I was in grad school in Pittsburgh in the early nineties I remember laughing myself into a stupor over a story John Cigna covered every morning for about a week. It seems that during that bitter cold spell, a local man's kitchen exploded, destroying the back half of his house.

How, you ask? Well, his car wouldn't start--the gas line froze--and there was no warm weather in the forecast. Being without a car was not acceptable, so the man had a great idea: heat the gas.

No kidding, the report was that the man filled a soup pot with gasoline and took it to his kitchen, where he proceeded to begin to heat it on his stove.

BOOM

I wish I could find a cite or link to this story. Anyone else remember it?

[KarlInOhio]

No kidding, the report was that the man filled a soup pot with gasoline and took it to his kitchen, where he proceeded to begin to heat it on his stove.

http://www.weatherimages.org/wxhumor.html

George Gibbs, 23, suffered second- and third-degree burns on his head in Columbus, Ohio, in January. He had diagnosed his car's problem as a frozen fuel line, which he thought he could correct by running warm gasoline through it. He then tried to heat a two-gallon can of gasoline on a gas stove. [Columbus Dispatch, Jan94]

Now, where is the story about the man who sucked up a bunch of wasps with his vacuum cleaner, saw that they were crawling back out and decided to gas them by vacuuming an open but unlit burner on a stove?

[martin_fierro]

Oh, you'll looove this story:

Bug-Bomb Explosion Rip House Apart