Re: hoover hamsterThis reminds me of a true story that I was told many years ago.
I had a pal work for the gas board. He got a call out to a suspected gas explosion at a residential house. When he got there the only damage he could see was a smashed front door and a burnt out vacuum cleaner in the middle of the garden. Transpired that the lady of the house was vacuuming the hallway and a mouse ran across the floor and was sucked up into the cleaner. She was freaked somewhat and worried that the mouse was dying an awful death inside the machine. So she thought she'd better put it out of its misery and make sure it was dead. She took a cannister of camping gas, broke the nozzle and pumped the contents into the dustbag.
Then deciding the mouse must be dead by now she decided to carry on vacuuming the floor and switched on the machine....erm hang on the machine is full of gas.
Boom, the vacuum cleaner shot thru the hall, smashing thru the front door to land in a smoking heap in the garden.
My pal nearly wet himself laughing when he found out what happened.
He also has an interesting story about an explosion at a chicken shed, but maybe another time for that one *g*
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I had a pal work for the gas board. He got a call out to a suspected gas explosion at a residential house. When he got there the only damage he could see was a smashed front door and a burnt out vacuum cleaner in the middle of the garden. Transpired that the lady of the house was vacuuming the hallway and a mouse ran across the floor and was sucked up into the cleaner. She was freaked somewhat and worried that the mouse was dying an awful death inside the machine. So she thought she'd better put it out of its misery and make sure it was dead. She took a cannister of camping gas, broke the nozzle and pumped the contents into the dustbag.
Then deciding the mouse must be dead by now she decided to carry on vacuuming the floor and switched on the machine....erm hang on the machine is full of gas.
Boom, the vacuum cleaner shot thru the hall, smashing thru the front door to land in a smoking heap in the garden.
My pal nearly wet himself laughing when he found out what happened.
He also has an interesting story about an explosion at a chicken shed, but maybe another time for that one *g*