Not a good idea! Car full of fireworks in the Netherlands explodes

[CharlieH]

 

A car full of fireworks exploded in the Netherlands after the driver smoked a cigarette and threw it out the window only for the wind to blow it back inside. 

 

A 21-year-old man called Gerben, from the Dutch town of Nieuwleusen, bought 75kg of fireworks in Germany on Friday for New Year's Eve.

He was only a few miles away from his house when he smoked a cigarette and attempted to throw it out the window - but the wind blew it right back in, causing a fire inside his black Volvo V70.

'We saw red flashes and heard a bang. It went dark inside the car because of all the smoke. We thought: we have to get out of the car,' Gerben told Dutch outlet Hart van Nederland.

 

 

 

[Chris Daley]

You only had one job Gerben.

[Henryford]

Who smokes a cigarette in a car full of explosives?

[stoner]

2 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Who smokes a cigarette in a car full of explosives?

 

gerben does.

[ezzra]

This have to be the first of the "what they were thinking" item of the new year....

[BritManToo]

Was the car an EV?

[impulse]

1 minute ago, ezzra said:

This have to be the first of the "what they were thinking" item of the new year....

Here's an even better candidate for a Darwin award...  Seen it quite a few times, drunks popping off rounds into the air to celebrate the New Year.  Las Vegas MGM Grand wasn't a good place to do that after recent history.  It'll be interesting to see what the guy's story is.  It wouldn't be funny had there been any injuries...  That's why I suspect hope the guy was just drunk.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/developing-massive-police-swat-response-signature-mgm-grand/

[bendejo]

Knucklehead-ism, there's a world-wide epidemic of it.

 

[Mike Lister]

Our Gerben's not the brightest star in the sky, said Gerbens mum.

[mfd101]

Do they have an Almost-Darwin-Award award?

[thaibeachlovers]

56 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Who smokes a cigarette in a car full of explosives?

an idiot that litters.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

A car full of fireworks exploded in the Netherlands after the driver smoked a cigarette and threw it out the window only for the wind to blow it back inside. 

Reminds me of the time I was on a military exercise and an M113 ( armoured personnel carrier ) loaded with pyrotechnics caught fire. Made a real mess of the interior, the engine was destroyed and the surrounding grass caught fire and melted the track wheels.

The reason it caught fire- the grass had caught fire and they were driving the vehicle over the grass to put it out ( that works if the vehicle is not full of explosives ). It might not have been a problem except the commander forgot about the cam nets hanging down the side that caught fire and took the flames right inside the vehicle through the open hatch.

 

Some mothers do have them!

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, Henryford said:

Who smokes a cigarette in a car full of explosives?

 

From the OP.

 

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

A 21-year-old man called Gerben, from the Dutch town of Nieuwleusen...

 

[Tropicalevo]

50 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

an idiot that litters.

And possibly causes forest fires etc.

[jvs]

1 hour ago, Henryford said:

Who smokes a cigarette in a car full of explosives?

Gerben did.

[jvs]

This year 100 million Euros worth of fireworks were sold in the Netherlands.

Legal fireworks that is,there is a very big market of illegal sales and products every year

and it keeps getting bigger.

A few deaths so far this new year and a bunch of fingers and eyes lost of course.

 

[ChipButty]

There is a village in Holland missing its idiot!

[Gandtee]

2 hours ago, Henryford said:

Who smokes a cigarette in a car full of explosives?

Some Dutch it would seem. But then it did happen here a couple of weeks ago. A load of fireworks on the back of a pickup.

[GammaGlobulin]

This is the type of thing you do when you are a teen.

 

This kind of thing can happen to the best of us.

 

Ka..BOOM!

[still kicking]

On 1/1/2024 at 10:38 AM, Henryford said:

Who smokes a cigarette in a car full of explosives?

He did.

[ravip]

On 1/1/2024 at 8:08 AM, Henryford said:

Who smokes a cigarette in a car full of explosives?

Gerben !