Bleep-Bleep — Boom!
A heating and air conditioning contractor in Virginia Beach, Va., left equipment in his pickup truck overnight. Flammable gasses leaked from the equipment, and when the contractor used his key fob to remotely unlock the truck, it exploded, throwing debris 200 yards away. Luckily, nobody was hurt in the explosion, including the contractor. “He was on the ground, but then got back up and started walking around like everything was fine,” said a man who saw the incident. “He got lucky. There was a windshield behind our house, stuff over there, a hood down that way, and he didn’t get any type of shrapnel in him or nothing.” (MS/WTKR Hampton Roads) ...Wait: Hollywood got something right for once?Original Publication Date: 08 September 2013
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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