A German man decided he needed to bring out the heavy artillery to thaw his frozen car. So he tucked a heater under the hood and went back inside the house to stay warm. The resulting explosion and fire totaled the car and scorched the siding on the house.
A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.
Now, we really are not sure what, exactly, a “blow heater” is. Is it a salamander heater (kerosene fired with forced air (the sound closely resembles a jet taking off) or an electric heat gun, sort of like a blow dryer, but with a serious attitude? Or just a forced air electric heater? We simply don’t know.
Heck, it could have been a goat for all we know:
Side note: We here at Blue Crab Boulevard plan on using rubber gloves to handle all currency in the future. We simply cannot be sure where it comes from.
Well, I’ve used a charcoal brazier to warm the oil pan to start a pickup in -30F weather. You do what you gotta do, and maybe learn something on the way…