{"id":23622,"date":"2019-12-15T22:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23622"},"modified":"2023-05-03T02:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:56:04","slug":"darwin-awards-2019-late-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23622","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Awards 2019 &#8211; Late Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 692px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 692\/420;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Car goes bang\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/car_goes_bang.png\" alt=\"Car goes bang\" width=\"692\" height=\"420\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">We\u2019re near the end of 2019, <a title=\"Police warning after man blows out car windscreen by lighting up a cigarette\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/halifax-explosion-car-cigarette-police-17424458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and we have a last minute entry for the 2019 Darwin Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bloke in Halifax was parked up outside some shops and bars. He\u2019d been spraying air freshener inside his car, and when he\u2019d finished he decided to light a cigarette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although aerosol cans used to use non-flammable CFCs, these were banned because of the damage they were said to do to the Ozone Layer, and many modern air fresheners use compressed air as the propellent instead. But quite a few still don\u2019t. Of those that don\u2019t, they usually use liquefied propane or butane \u2013 both of which are used as heating gases because they burn. Consequently, the ejected aerosol from such an air freshener is flammable. Indeed, in an enclosed space, it is explosive. And our erstwhile Darwin candidate discovered this through practical application of these properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the enclosed space of his car, with a high concentration of flammable gas present, as he struck his lighter or match the gas ignited and \u2013 in the enclosed environment \u2013 became explosive. It blew out his windows. Looking at the picture, it also nearly blew off the roof and all four doors. The explosion damaged the windows of nearby shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, he only sustained minor injuries, so we can admit that it is funny without upsetting anyone who matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update 23\/12\/2019:<\/strong> It&#8217;s been in some of the newspapers today. He did sustain some burns, though I wouldn&#8217;t go as far as The Sun in describing them as &#8220;horrendous&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the funniest part is that in the photos he has a really surprised look on his face. I&#8217;m sure that will wear off in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re near the end of 2019, and we have a last minute entry for the 2019 Darwin Awards. A bloke in Halifax was parked up outside some shops and bars. He\u2019d been spraying air freshener inside his car, and when he\u2019d finished he decided to light a cigarette. Although aerosol cans used to use non-flammable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}