gattino
Justified & Ancient
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My brother lives here and last night about 1am there was a knock on the door. Who the ****?
Neighbours walking their dog (already a suspicious tale you might think) reporting there was a fire in his car parked outside the house. What?!
Within minutes the thing was ablaze. A fireball ready to explode had the fire brigade been any later. It's now a burnt out husk. Much like myself.
Cars going mysteriously on fire are not unheard of round here, what with the insurance coming in handy. But his car only cost a couple of hundred quid, he'd not been near it in several hours and was dead asleep so couldn't have left a ciggie burning, and the neighbours reported there were no cracks or openings in the windows for someone to drop something in.
Do you own a restaurant? asked the firemen. Yes, a cafe. And did you have teatowels in the car? He'd taken them to the laundry that very evening and left them in a bag in the front seat. "Yeah, seen it before" they said "its the static build up in the teatowels causes them to ignite"
You what? How is that possible. I looked it up this morning and sure enough.. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24 ... 62,00.html
This similar story explains the science behind it. But can anyone remind which recent edition of FT included an article on the "mystery" of how certain things ignited. I remember reading it but not in which issue.
Neighbours walking their dog (already a suspicious tale you might think) reporting there was a fire in his car parked outside the house. What?!
Within minutes the thing was ablaze. A fireball ready to explode had the fire brigade been any later. It's now a burnt out husk. Much like myself.
Cars going mysteriously on fire are not unheard of round here, what with the insurance coming in handy. But his car only cost a couple of hundred quid, he'd not been near it in several hours and was dead asleep so couldn't have left a ciggie burning, and the neighbours reported there were no cracks or openings in the windows for someone to drop something in.
Do you own a restaurant? asked the firemen. Yes, a cafe. And did you have teatowels in the car? He'd taken them to the laundry that very evening and left them in a bag in the front seat. "Yeah, seen it before" they said "its the static build up in the teatowels causes them to ignite"
You what? How is that possible. I looked it up this morning and sure enough.. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24 ... 62,00.html
This similar story explains the science behind it. But can anyone remind which recent edition of FT included an article on the "mystery" of how certain things ignited. I remember reading it but not in which issue.
