A guy has caused a pretty huge explosion in his own back garden after throwing lit candles onto a pile of rubbish soaked in, well, something highly-flammable.
Footage of the incident posted online shows the guy lighting the candles and nervously – and it turns out, knowingly – approaching the rubbish, reports The Mirror.
Fortunately he decides to take a couple of steps back before igniting the giant mound of what looks like crumpled paper as what happened next was way more violent than anyone was expecting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWziVtyWSes
The mound explodes with a massive boom, rattling windows and sending the woman behind the camera running inside for cover.
When she re-emerges from the house where once was a pretty nice looking garden is now a sort of post apocalyptic furnace complete with piles of flaming paper and a few burning trees.
She tells the man to douse the fire with water and they discuss whether they should call emergency officials for help.
YouTube/SilentTechThe footage was posted to YouTube and Reddit – where it has been watched over 250,000 times – with the vast majority of people condemning the stunt.
One user wrote: “I love how it was a beautiful garden before then Armageddon after.” While another added: “Protip: Do not do this.”
Which is probably good advice…
