Roach spray explodes, blows up eatery

[flamingyouth]

Remind me never to eat here... :puke:

PERTH, Australia -- An overzealous attempt to rid a Thai restaurant of cockroaches sparked an explosion that blew the eatery apart, emergency services said Thursday.

Three men were hospitalized with burns after they set off 36 cockroach fumigation devices - aerosol cans filled with chemicals - which apparently exploded after their contents came into contact with an oven pilot light. Duncraig fire station officer Kieran Cooper said the blast wrecked the restaurant.

John McMillan, manager of Western Australia state's fire investigations unit, said the huge blast lifted the roof off the Tamarind restaurant in the state capital, Perth.

"The restaurant owner has used the principle that if you use twice the soap, you get your hands twice as clean. He's just overdone it," McMillan said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apfeature_story.asp?category=1120&slug=Exploding%20Eatery

[Celeborn Skywalker]

1. Yuck.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[vpigrad]

2. Once again, insecticides cause more problems than they solve!

When will people learn?

[tridim]

3. Already proven "plausible" on Mythbusters

Except they were using standard bug bombs.

[Goldom]

5. but wasn't it only if they used way way too many?

..then again, 36 sounds like that to me..

[Wilber_Stool]

4. Self delete.

Jeeze. Was I late on that one. How could I have missed reading #3

[BlueJazz]

6. In a related story..50,000 Cockroaches were admitted to...

..Perth General hospital's Emergency Ward...

[Nevernose]

7. You know that they still have roaches

Cockroaches aren't going to be deterred by something as minor as an explosion.