When you want that 'recently detonated' scent in your car...

[Levo-Lon]

he was rather lucky..

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

he was rather lucky..

"Pardon?"

That'll be his line for a while.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Dark skies! You'll certainly find no shortage of dark skies in Scotland. Usually the sort to have plenty of rain coming from them. I'm not quite sure that they'll be the sort you're looking for, unless you like having to turn the lights on at noon. I fear the only thing you'll see with your telescope are clouds...

I learned the real meaning of dark on Arran. An overcast night and there was literally no light source anywhere - totally blind. An unsettling experience, especially when you wait for your eyes to adjust - and they don't.

However by the same token, starlight is incredibly bright when there are no streetlights, easily enough to get around by and a full moon is like a searchlight.

 

[Globalti]

Most airfresheners are propelled by butane since the CFC ban and it doesn't take much butane trapped in an enclosed space to reach the point where it will explode. About a half second spray in this video:


View: https://youtu.be/gsspCYijQg0

 

[snorri]

Some fantastic dark skies up on Unst. So dark you can see air freshener exploding 100s of miles away.

It's 24 hour daylight all year round in Shetland thanks to the oil platforms flaring off gas.

 

[Beebo]

Most airfresheners are propelled by butane since the CFC ban and it doesn't take much butane trapped in an enclosed space to reach the point where it will explode. About a half second spray in this video:


View: https://youtu.be/gsspCYijQg0

Yeah but, the volume of a car is hundreds of times bigger than the volume of a toilet roll, and car windows are somewhat stronger than a pingpong ball.
i still think there is more to this story, but have nothing to base that on.

 

[Profpointy]

Many years ago there was a similar-sounding story in the local paper, including as it happens a chap I went to school with. A couple of lads were in a car sniffing lighter fuel and blew the car up. I was a bit surprised at my schoolmate: whilst he wasn't exactly in the top set, and had a bit of a colourful past, I didn't think he'd be sniffing solvents. His account of the incident was quoted in the paper "the other lads were sniffing lighter fuel, but I wasn't into that and got bored, so I lit a fag"
Yup, that I could believe !

 

[Globalti]

Yeah but, the volume of a car is hundreds of times bigger than the volume of a toilet roll, and car windows are somewhat stronger than a pingpong ball.
i still think there is more to this story, but have nothing to base that on.

You wouldn't need more than a couple of CCs of liquid butane to produce a huge volume of gas, which would produce a massive volume of hot air when burned with oxygen. In a large space like the inside of a car it doesn't take much of an increase in volume to blow out the windows - haven't you ever stood and slammed a bedroom door in your house then opened the window and repeated the experiment? Slamming a door in a sealed room will produce a momentary drop in atmospheric pressure meaning you can't cause it to bang because the door stops as it seals the frame. Open the window and the same door pushed with the same force will slam hard against the frame. Even slamming your car doors with windows open or shut will produce the same dramatic difference in the result. What I'm trying to explain is that a tiny pressure difference has an exponential effect as surface area increases.

Here's a video of a "Gazex" device using a propane explosion to dislodge powder snow above ski resorts:


View: https://youtu.be/YXz-TVlbLJY

 

[classic33]

Not the first time, one from September 2017.
"The explosion happened after a build-up of gases from an air freshener was accidentally ignited by a cigarette," Essex Fire and Rescue Service said.
A man who was nearby, said he heard a "very loud bang" as the "doors, windscreen and roof... were blown out".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-41179132

 

[classic33]

I think it's an understatement to say this guy was lucky to escape with minor injuries:


"A driver caused an explosion in his car when he lit a cigarette after spraying air freshener.
He used "excessive" amounts of the aerosol scent before sparking up, according to firefighters.
Gas from the spray ignited, blew out the windscreen and windows and buckled the doors but the man escaped with only minor injuries.
The motorist was in stationary traffic in Fountain Street in the town at about 15:00 GMT on Saturday when the explosion happened.

It was so powerful it caused damage to windows at nearby businesses."

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-50810196

Just outside a solicitors, over the road, and down from two pubs that will have been showing any football match being played at the time. Maybe they never saw the end of the match.

 

[biggs682]

One less chavved up SEAT on the roads.

My thought totally just a few more to go , then we can start on Audi's

 

[classic33]

There may be more to it than has been reported. The path to the left of the car remains closed, as does Harrison Road, to the right and rear of the car. Northern Gas Networks have a "Incident Centre" at the Harrison Road junction.