Man blows up part of house while chasing fly

[muriel_volestrangler]

The man, who is in his 80s, was about to tuck into his dinner when he became irritated by a fly buzzing around him.

He picked up an electric racket designed to kill bugs and start swatting at it - but a gas canister was leaking in his Dordogne home.

A reaction between the racket and the gas caused an explosion, destroying the kitchen and partly damaging the roof of the home in Parcoul-Chenaud village.

According to local media, the unnamed man had a lucky escape, sustaining just a burn to the hand.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54051423

"The fate of the fly is unknown"

[SheltieLover]

1. Glad he is ok!

[CaptYossarian]

2. Clouseau lives!

[Sneederbunk]

3. What happened to the fly?

[hvn_nbr_2]

4. He's probably quite lucky that he went after that fly

That gas would have kept on building up till something set it off and blew up the whole house.

[AmyStrange]

5. Electric racket?

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Doesn't anyone use a fly swatter or newspaper anymore?
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[ChazInAz]

6. How primitive.

I use an air gun that shoots a load of table salt at the beasts.
It's deeply satisfying.

[AmyStrange]

7. How much did your air gun cost?

[ChazInAz]

12. Somewhere around $30

It's a "Bug-A-Salt" that I found on Amazon. (Where else?)
Obliterating a fly that's just out of swatter range is truly soul-satisfying. I may be a Buddhist, but one can only carry the doctrine of Ahimsa so far!

[AmyStrange]

13. I know what you mean. I don't like killing anything, but mosquitoes are evil...

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What are they good for anyway?

Flies and wasp are essential, I think, but mosquitoes?

Does your electric thingy look like this one:

https://www.harborfreight.com/electronic-fly-insect-swatter-62540.html?cid=paid_google

That ones only $3.99, and hopefully, yours is also cordless.

Of course, it would be comedic to see someone running around the room chasing a fly with one plugged into the wall.
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[kas125]

8. I have both, but when the bug in question is a scary looking wasp or something

and it's in my house, I'm glad to hear that sizzle when the the electric fly swatter gets him. Then I know for sure that my hitting him worked and didn't just make him mad.

[AmyStrange]

9. What the hell is an electric fly swatter?

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Wish you'd taken a picture of this "scary looking wasp."
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[kas125]

10. It's actually battery operated, not electric, lol.

https://www.harborfreight.com/electronic-fly-insect-swatter-62540.html?cid=paid_google|*PLA+-+All+Products|All+Products|62540&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=*PLA+-+All+Products&utm_content=All+Products&gclid=CjwKCAjwkdL6BRAREiwA-kiczJtcPmpimLxGQhpEyxqh-2m9iCIOTXFBH7ktOdVAVQKSEcn6IeNWfBoCRmYQAvD_BwE

[AmyStrange]

11. Wow! Only $3.99!

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Good thing it's cordless. You could knock over a lot of shit trying to swat a fly if it wasn't.

Although, I'd still like to see a picture of that, "scary looking wasp."
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[kas125]

14. It's pretty heavy, so I don't really swat at them, more like

corner them in the window or wherever until they hit the wires on their own. A friend had one, but it was a different brand and it was about half the weight this one is.

Sorry, no wasp pictures. But they're the shiny black kind who have a nest behind the shutters on the front of the house. I haven't worked up the courage to get rid of it, it's been there every summer for years. They really don't bother me, so I don't bother them. Until they come in the house, that is.