Saw something like that before.
A long time ago (25 yrs) with two guys (Mike and Don) changing the #4 engine on a B-17 air tanker on the Douglas Arizona airport. There was a small laundermat at the airport and Mike and I had washed our clothes in the same machine. When we finished the airplane about 10 oclock that night, Don took off his overalls, rinsed them in a five gallon bucket of 100 octane. While Mike and I sorted our clothes in front of one of the dryers, Don proceeded to throw his gas soaked overalls into a washer and turned it on. A few minutes passed and the machine started to agitate. All of a sudden, there was a flash like a nuc going off and all the bugs that had been flying around the place fell out of the air.
When Mike and I turned around, and there stood Don (wearing only shorts and shoes), looking like he had a severe sunburn and absolutly no hair on the front of his body. And the washer sat there, not running, with the front, sides and top blown off. All Don could say was "My God, My God". Apparently he had decided to watch his overalls agitate and had opened the top door on the washer, which promptly shorted and ignited the gas fumes.
Figuring we had had enough of lunacy for the evening we loaded Don and our clothes into the pick up, put the washer back to gether as best we could, and beat feet towards Kansas.
So you see that this idiocy is not limited to today or to Europe.
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