Exploding Toilet Sends Boy To Hospital

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Exploding toilet sends boy to the hospital

by Sandy Maple Nov 13th 2008 4:00PM

 

 

You now how sometimes your bathroom needs a little freshening up after a particularly, um, odorous event? You might be tempted to light a candle or spray some air freshener and that is fine. Just don't do both.

 

This poor child in Germany found out the hard way that aerosol sprays and open flames can be an explosive mix. At 13-years-old, Dennis Bueller is old enough to read the warnings on the can, but admits he didn't bother. After finishing his 'business', he gave the bathroom a liberal dousing of Purple Rose air freshener then decided to hang around for a bit.

 

"Then I began fiddling with a lighter my dad left in there and suddenly there was this big orange whoosh! of flame. I woke up outside with my clothes burned off me and smelling like a barbecue," he said.

 

He will now need months of medical care for the burns on his burns face, arms, legs and upper body. The boy's dad sympathizes with his son's pain, but hopes he has learned a lesson. "He said the downstairs loo smelled but I think he realizes he was a bit dim in playing with a lighter," said Artur Bueller. Maybe it is just me, but if I had been the adult who left that lighter laying around in the bathroom, I might be blaming myself for what happened.

 

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How much aerosol did he use?!