The interior of a car can get a little stank. Smoking cigarettes doesn’t help the situation. In fact, it can make things a whole lot worse.
Spraying air freshener can improve things a bit, but you don’t want to go crazy with it. Too much of a good thing can quickly turn into a bad thing. A very, very bad thing. For example, if you’re getting ready to light up a smoke you should really take a beat and carefully re-examine the warnings on the can.
Aerosols tend to be highly flammable. In certain cases, that’s very useful, like when you’re building a kick-butt potato gun. In just about any other situation it’s a recipe for disaster.
That lesson was learned the hard way this week by a fellow over in England. After laying down a thick layer of scented fog in his car, the unnamed victim lit up a cigarette. With plenty of oxygen and fuel already present in the car, the heat completed the fire triangle — to spectacular effect.
The ensuing explosion blew the windshield and all the other windows out of the car, buckled the roof and doors and damaged the tailgate. The blast was powerful enough that it even damaged the doors and windows of businesses in the vicinity, too.
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service told BBC reporters that the man used an “excessive” amount of air freshener, which is now in the running for understatement of the year. The first responders also said the incident “could’ve been a lot worse.” Presumably that type of explosion would’ve resulted in a scene straight out of a 1980s police drama produced by Steven J. Cannell.
As a reminder, aerosol cans can do plenty of damage to your car without the help of a lighter. Leaving one lying around when your vehicle is parked under a blazing hot sun, for example, is a very bad idea. They’re likely “to rupture with considerable force,” as Snopes puts it.
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