Originally Posted by kane

I wasn't home to hear the explosion, but I saw the charred up car. I went to a friends for some food and to watch our local fireworks display. While there I get a call from another friend of mine who is a cop in my town and was working tonight. He tells me that a guy a couple of blocks down from my house decided it would be cool to put an M80 firecracker in a three gallon gas can that was full of gas. It was redneck logic at its best.

Apparently the explosion launched burning gas about 15 feet in all directions like napalm. He got lucky and didn't hit any people or houses, but his car got a heavy dose of it and caught fire. The car went up pretty quickly. By the time the fire trucks got there the car was gone.

What an idiot.