CrossLOPER
09-26-2011, 03:31
I was in my room when the entire house shook. I paid no attention to it at first since lightning strikes around here all the time, causing the same effect. I looked out and saw that the sky was absolutely cloudless. I didn't see the smoke until I walked a few paces down my residential street. The dark, greasy, rapidly expanding mist consumed the dark blue sky of this evening.
The fire consumed a great deal of the car by the time I saw it. I heard some strange popping noises coming from the vehicle, almost like firecrackers. EMS, fire and police arrived in less than three minutes. They let people gawk for a while before dispersing them. I managed to take a few poor quality photos and vids. I wanted to take a closer look at the hood, which was about 20 meters away from the car. You could see where it had been torn from the bolts fastening it to the car, which was now a burning piece of crap.
The only injury was apparently the owner, though he was walking briskly to the ambulance with the help of EMS personnel. All his arms and legs were attached, but his skin was blackened. A person who I assumed to be his wife joined him to the hospital. She seemed composed, but visible shaken. The rest of the residents were cracking jokes about car bombs and exclaiming "TOASTY" like a piece of meat had been burned at the community BBQ. Kids were jokingly posing, giving a thumbs up with the burning hulk in the background. "You have no soul" I heard one girl say to a boy striking such a pose.
Aside from a few cars suffering paint chips from where plastic shrapnel hit them, there was no apparent damage. Not one window blown out. Nothing, apart from the car that blew up.
So how was your evening?
The fire consumed a great deal of the car by the time I saw it. I heard some strange popping noises coming from the vehicle, almost like firecrackers. EMS, fire and police arrived in less than three minutes. They let people gawk for a while before dispersing them. I managed to take a few poor quality photos and vids. I wanted to take a closer look at the hood, which was about 20 meters away from the car. You could see where it had been torn from the bolts fastening it to the car, which was now a burning piece of crap.
The only injury was apparently the owner, though he was walking briskly to the ambulance with the help of EMS personnel. All his arms and legs were attached, but his skin was blackened. A person who I assumed to be his wife joined him to the hospital. She seemed composed, but visible shaken. The rest of the residents were cracking jokes about car bombs and exclaiming "TOASTY" like a piece of meat had been burned at the community BBQ. Kids were jokingly posing, giving a thumbs up with the burning hulk in the background. "You have no soul" I heard one girl say to a boy striking such a pose.
Aside from a few cars suffering paint chips from where plastic shrapnel hit them, there was no apparent damage. Not one window blown out. Nothing, apart from the car that blew up.
So how was your evening?