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NICE ‘N’ GREASY We start this month with a story to warm the hearts of all those who find excuses not to clean properly. Four people were hurt in an explosion in a café in a busy shopping district in Frankfurt, Germany in June. Emergency services called to the street café in the chic Bergerstrasse, they were met “by a scene of destruction”, reports said. Apart from the injuries, the windows at the front of the premises were blown out, with shards of glass strewn across the pavement outside. Firefighters, fearing a gas leak, cleared the
area and shut off the gas supply. However, it turned out that an employee had been tidying up and was spraying cleaning fluid on a refrigerator in a side room. Fumes from the cleaning – possibly also the mist – caught fire and caused an explosion. Damage was estimated at €200,000.
HANDS UP! Possibly our favourite story of the month – we’re like that here on the Back Page – comes from Chicago and, in common with a number of other incidents in late June in the US, featured fireworks gone wrong. A nurse working the night shift was woken in the afternoon in her Portage Park home by “a large explosion and a scream”. She learned that a man had been hurt in a fireworks explosion nearby and had lost at least two fingers from one hand. Later the same day she let her dog out
into the yard. It returned shortly afterwards and dropped something at her feet. On close inspection it turned out to be part of a human hand – which had been blown about 80 metres by the force of the explosion. CBS reports do not specify if surgeons
were able to reattach the hand, although if our experience of dogs is anything to
go by it would not have been in a usable condition by that point.
POP-UP TOASTER The Back Page is fond of stopping off at the local branch of Morrisons supermarket to pick up some nice fresh bread. But in July residents in Wakefield, West Yorkshire had it delivered, although not as ordered. A massive fire broke out at a bakery operated by Morrisons, with thick black smoke blowing across the town. Witnesses reported burned break and debris flying through the air, and one Twitter user showed pictures of toast on her back lawn. Others said debris had been found up to two miles away.
STREET OF SHAME Toast is one thing but residents in a village in County Down, Northern Ireland had a rather more unpleasant experience at the end of June. Northern Ireland Water had to apologise after an effluent tanker operated by a contractor sprayed sewage sludge along the main street in Crossgar. The contractor blamed a mechanical problem on the tanker. “It was an accident - a valve or something went and the whole thing started spraying,” said local councillor Terry Anderson. The effluent was sprayed over the front of homes along the street, on their dustbins left out for the morning collection, and on a group of people waiting to catch the bus to Belfast. Still, it was not bad news for everyone. Mark Moore, who runs Soapy Joe’s car wash in the village, was called on by householders to help clear up the mess. “So I started cleaning and some of the other big contractors were rung, so it was a whole clean-up operation. It was absolutely rotten filth. We disinfected everything.” We are sure an invoice is on its way
to NI Water.
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