Mysterious Car Explosion
This took place at 3:15 AM this Sunday, the day the Tawjihi results were announced. Although what you’re about to read may look like a scene from an action movie, this is a 100% real story. It may happen to anyone, and you won’t believe what caused it!
That day, Tareq Al-Helo drove his car to pickup his younger brother Talal (both friends of mine) from a friend’s house. He arrived there, parked his car in the building’s park and waited for his brother. Talal came few minutes later with a couple of friends who need a ride. They all got in and Tareq tried to start the car …
As soon as Tareq turned the key inside the switch, sparks started to come out of the gear box and the car’s front. Seconds later they heard a big “Boom” and the hood went on fire!
They all come out of the car. Tareq ran to get help, Talal stayed at the car, while the other two guys ran away as fast as they could.
Talal tried to open the car’s trunk to take the extinguisher but he got electrocuted. He kicked the trunk several times till it opened, picked up the extinguisher and tried to set the fire down. The engine then exploded, and flaming oil was sprayed inside as well as outside the car. Luckily, none of it got on Talal.
Several explosions followed, the glass burst out, the tires went down and the fire was extending despite all Talal’s efforts. The fuel tank was surely going to explode creating a massive explosion, damaging the building, and blowing off nearby cars as well.
Tareq brought some help back. They all decided the push the car away from the building and so they did. The fire trucks arrived later and put the fire down before it reached the fuel tank. There was nothing left of the car. It all melted down leaving a chassis with two tires and some paint.
For an unknown reason, the car chassis was accumulating charge for some time. The car was charged like a bomb and nobody felt it. Cars are normally insulated from the ground by tires, you can’t get electrocuted if you’re sitting inside a car even if you grabbed a 240V line by your teeth (unless the car’s downside is close enough to the ground so that air starts conducting). Passengers are further insulated from the chassis by seats and car’s interior. The closest point of contact between a charged chassis and the driver is always the gear box.
Looking at it analytically, there’se nothing they could have done. They also couldn’t have known. If only the car was touched by a metallic object on the ground, or if someone was kind enough to step into the car barefoot, nothing of this would have happened.
Anyway, thank god all the guys got out of the car before it’s too late, or else they would be serving their meat in McDonald’s today :)
11 Response(s) to "Mysterious Car Explosion"
Devil's Mind said:
So u'r accusing McDonalds of serving dead people's bodies... What proof have you got about that?!
Hareega said:
wow, that picture of the car looks like a picture of baghdad on one bloody day,
good nobody was hurt.
mazz said:
so that's what those little chains pick up trucks have at the back do! get rid of static charge!
and i thought it was just cosmetic!
Ghaith said:
Devil's Mind
I've tasted both, no difference :F
Hareega
Yup, it is very bizarre. I kept staring at the car for minutes when I first saw it. Thank God nobody got hurt :)
Mazz
Those chains didn't turn out to be useless afterall. I think it is unsafe for pickups and large trucks carrying combustible materials to travel without these!
By the way, according to the police, 9 cars exploded in Amman due to static electricity last month only! This could be due to either: they don't know what's happening to those cars so they put the blame on static electricity or static electricity is more dangerous than we thought!
Perhaps we should consider putting chains on cars as well.
ma3en said:
well then avoiding car accidents wont be enough to protect ur car from total destruction is it :)
Ghaith said:
Well, if a car can accumulate charge and explode by itself, then there's nothing much to do to protect it =)
Lubna said:
funny ur last sentence.
7amdila 3a salamet ilkol
Ghaith said:
Allah ysalmek.
Qutob said:
static electricity...the new face of terrorisem :p
Ghaith said:
lol, static electricity is dangerous, but the true new face of terrorism is the Bo3ro9 :D
P.S: Bo3ro9 = elite writing for "Bo'ros" ;)
Arabian said:
mabrook ya m9adee! :D
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