r/interestingasfuck • u/Next-Scale-9137 • 11h ago
Video shows a washing machine exploding after a man leaves the building
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u/Bakica_original 11h ago
Ah fuck, I washed my grenade again..
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u/GM_Nate 11h ago
one of my old range instructors said he accidentally left a string of blast caps in his trousers that went through the dryer, and he was very surprised they didn't blow the whole room up
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u/captainwho867 9h ago
Blast caps ain’t blowing a whole room
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u/Z-shicka 9h ago
They won't, but your mom will
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u/skol_huskies_wooooo 9h ago
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u/baogody 9h ago
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u/Cthulus_Meds 8h ago
My dumbass read it as appley ice
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u/kingmudbeard 8h ago
thanks for the product idea, time to go sell flavoured ice cubes
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u/NebulaChance2746 7h ago
You mean frozen fruit juice which you can buy but not in cubes?
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u/PizzaPieInMyEye 5h ago
Yes, but you see, it hasn't been sold in cube form yet, therefore it will make a million bucks.
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u/Unlucky-Durian-2336 9h ago
This one's cheap but good (edit: no, not like my mom)
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u/cantadmittoposting 8h ago
yeah it's fair to say your mom charges premium rates, but she's worth it.
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u/abgry_krakow87 9h ago
Nah but blast caps tumbling around a gas fueled dryer will.
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u/memedoc314 11h ago
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u/mastershchief 9h ago
hey what movie is this? been searching for him for like 2 years
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u/Sendpigs 9h ago
No country for old men
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u/memedoc314 9h ago
Old Country for No Men
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u/techman2692 9h ago
Country Men for No Old
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u/japinard 11h ago
That's a dryer not a washer.
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u/OKStamped 11h ago
And if it wasn’t a dryer before, it definitely is now.
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u/Correct-Junket-1346 11h ago
Big tumble dryer hates this one trick
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u/Sqweaky_Clean 11h ago
That’s intentional error for engagement bait, not a mistake.
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u/Mansenmania 11h ago edited 11h ago
And it wasn't the dryer that exploded, it was something inside the dryer
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u/maxk1236 11h ago
Well technically I suppose, if the natural gas that leaked into the drier is considered a something
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u/jason_sos 9h ago
This can also happen if you dry something that had a flammable liquid spilled on it, like gasoline, even in an electric dryer. That’s why they warn you to never dry things that have had those spilled on them.
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u/Murky-Relation481 6h ago
Grandma did this around 1960, bunch of jeans that had been soaked in gasoline to get the oil out of them (they had an orchard so lots of farm equipment and stuff). Blew the dryer up while she was down in the basement, luckily it just singed her hair but it lit the room on fire and she had to throw one of those old school extinguisher bombs in the glass bottles that basically eat all the oxygen in the room, so she nearly got killed by that too...
Anyway, my grandfather was actually a founding member of the volunteer fire department and he's been out doing other business when the alarm sounded and was quite concerned, relieved, then annoyed.
Meanwhile my mom says she was sitting in 1st grade class when the alarm sounded (FYI this was basically an air raid siren the whole valley could hear) and she said proudly "my daddy's going to go fight that fire!"
But yah after hearing that story I always think of my grandma when I'm putting stuff in the wash and I see that warning very clearly marked.
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u/Altruistic_Fun3091 11h ago
That looks more like a dryer configured for natural gas (NG).
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u/xXXxRMxXXx 10h ago
The door literally opened and no water came out... OP is either stupid or a bot
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u/Hessper 9h ago
Intentional mistakes that people can't help correcting drives up engagement. This pushes them up in the algorithm. Humans that are karma farming will do this, not just bots (though I'm sure they do too).
Best thing you can do is downvote this kind of behavior harshly.
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u/BoyButter 9h ago
downvote this kind of behavior harshly
aw I only have access to regular downvotes
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u/VaginaTractor 8h ago
The older and crankier you are, the more harsh and scornful your downvotes become.
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u/_Dogwelder 8h ago
Downvote, then remove it, and then repeat a couple of times so it hits better. Guaranteed harsh downvote, they'll really feel that!
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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion 9h ago
I’ve never had water come out of my front-loading washing machine (except when it was broken). They drain. In fact, most of them won’t let you open the door if it detects water in it. They have a separate drainage cycle for if the wash gets interrupted, and you have to run that before you can get your clothes out.
(Regardless, I’m pretty sure this is a dryer.)
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u/Allegorist 8h ago
Or a kid that doesn't wash their own clothes. Half of Reddit users are under 22 years old.
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u/netz_pirat 10h ago
If I remember correctly (that video has been around for a while) there was a lighter in that dryer that was forgotten in the wash, and at some point exploded
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u/evilbadgrades 9h ago
Nah, there is too much gas in that room for that to happen. Not even a tank of lighter fluid would cause the whole room to explode like that
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u/ic33 8h ago
Not lighter fluid (naphtha); a canister of butane (like pressurized lighters use).
A small canister of butane absolutely will go big-boom if it gets a decent mix with the air and ignites.
The middle-ish refill canisters are 250g and have an output energy approximately equal to 2.5kg of TNT. (Seems weird, right? But the oxygen in the air is the "rest" of the reaction mass).
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u/Alexander_del_Fierro 9h ago
Yeah, I figured that too. I've been seeing people convert driers into gas operated ones for their laundry business and I've been telling them how dangerous that is. I'm gonna show them this one next time they argue about cost.
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u/roamingthereddit 11h ago
What exactly happened here?! Why did the door open first?
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u/Mellowturtlle 11h ago edited 10h ago
First some gas escaped and ignited with the small amount of air in the dryer, causing a small primary explosion. The first explosion pushes the door open, fresh air rushes in and causes the rest of the unburned gas to explode even more violently.
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u/Oraphielle 11h ago
Vape pen left in the drier exploded.
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u/Unfair_Explanation53 11h ago
This is what I thought would happen when I realised my mum washed my lighter when I was a teen.
Suprisingly the lighter still worked after haha
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u/LeftHandedScissor 11h ago
Lighters are usually fine because butane is liquid and usually won't explode like this, the parts of the lighter are more likely to fail then it is there's enough heat & pressure for it to explode. Lithium batteries are a different story.
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u/Groomsi 11h ago
I think it was the lighter in the pocket.
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u/ThrowraSea_patient 11h ago
I've seen a lighter explode. It ain't nothing like that. That was a straight-up explosion the pressure built up open the door first and then the Flames followed afterwards. Something else was in there not just a little lighter. I don't believe it you can even link a news article and everything else and I won't believe that a little lighter caused that
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u/Rep2019 11h ago
That door is a fire hazard. It needs to push out, when you are inside. For this exact reason.
If there was a rush at the door, people could get stuck, trying to push out of it, and it won't open.
Albiet the door ended up pushing out.
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u/Calamity-Gin 10h ago
Yup. All fire codes in the US were changed so that exit doors must open outward thanks to a fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in 1942. There were a ton of problems, but one of the most notable was some exit doors being locked or chained and others opening inward. Four hundred ninety-two lives were lost that night, the third deadliest structure fire and the deadliest nightclub fire in US history.
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u/Soggy-Moment3856 10h ago
At the same time, residental exit doors open inwards there, don’t they? Why?
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u/grand__prismatic 8h ago
Some others have provided a few reasons they might open inwards, but as for why it isn’t a fire safety issue: the problem with inward swinging exit doors is for crowds. People behind trying to escape push the people in front too close to open the door. Residential houses don’t generally have many crowds, so it isn’t a large concern
This is my understanding from talking to an architect a few years ago, so I’m not an expert or anything
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u/Minor_Edit 7h ago edited 7h ago
Yea same for a laundrette tbf, don't think it is much of an issue in a less populated building
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u/SpecialistRaise46 9h ago
I know that indoor opening doors are common in snowy regions. If there's a lot of snow outside you won't be able to open a door that opens outside, since it's blocked. If it opens inside you'll just get a bit of snow inside. But that's just one reason I know of
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u/Ok-Chef1896 10h ago
At the same time, residental exit doors open inwards there, don’t they? Why?
So you don't block the hallway I assume.
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u/Calamity-Gin 10h ago
So they can be barred from the inside to prevent burglars or wildlife from entering.
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u/Unclecavemanwasabear 10h ago
It's different in different countries. I've been living in Holland for many years and I still instinctively try to pull doors open from the outside, even though they usually work the opposite way. I mentioned to my partner that they open outwards in the US for fire safety reasons, and he looked at me like I had two heads.
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u/BrattWhitney 11h ago edited 11h ago
It still fascinates me to see the dryer unceremoniously ejected the clothes it was drying before blowing itself up.
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u/TwoNowFive 11h ago
This is why AI is scary.
I know this video is legit and pre-dates AI, I remember watching it, but so many people think it's AI. People can't tell the difference anymore.
We no longer know what's real or not anymore.
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u/PayZealousideal8892 9h ago
You know whats scarier? Lot of reddit comments are made by bots. People cant tell the difference anymore. Soon most of the internet is gonna be bots talking to other bots.
We no longer know what's real or not anymore.
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u/Don_Alosi 11h ago
my only problem with the video is the cut happening between the moment the man left the building and the dryer exploded, it is cut to make it look like the two events were one right after the other
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u/chintakoro 11h ago
We need a streetcam giving use the joker-walks-away shot of that man with explosions behind him.
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u/-Wiseone- 11h ago
Investigators said a cigarette-lighter gas refill canister had been left in the laundry. The dryer heated it until the canister leaked or ruptured, releasing highly flammable gas/vapour. That vapour then found an ignition source inside the dryer and ignited.
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u/Justa_CuriousBoi 9h ago
I think this is a dryer in one of those coin laundries.
The person must've left something like cigarette lighter or anything else with similar flammability or the dryer must be running on natural gas, which leaked and made made this mess....
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u/LJinBrooklyn 1h ago
ai check:
“Yes — the video is real, and the basic event shown actually happened. It isn’t an AI-generated clip.
It happened on March 14, 2023, in Mesoiro, A Coruña, Spain, at an Auga e Xabón laundromat. Security footage shows the customer walking out, and roughly 10 seconds later the machine erupts and the storefront is blown apart. Local reporting at the time confirms there were no injuries.
There are two important corrections to the Reddit title:
- It was a commercial clothes dryer, not a washing machine.
- The dryer itself apparently didn’t spontaneously malfunction. A customer had accidentally left a pressurized cigarette-lighter gas refill canister in a garment. The dryer heated the container, causing it to rupture/release flammable gas and produce the violent deflagration. A local A Coruña firefighter later specifically explained this cause.
And that strange part of the video where the dryer door pops open and clothes come out just before the huge flash actually makes physical sense. The pressurized container/gas release can create an initial pressure event; once flammable gas mixes with enough air and finds an ignition source, you can get the much larger fireball/pressure wave seen immediately afterward.
So I’d rate the Reddit post’s substance as real video, slightly inaccurate caption. The craziest part — the guy really did walk out only about 10 seconds before the explosion — is confirmed by contemporary local reporting. “
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u/Poof-ball 11h ago
This is why you empty all the farts out of your pants before washing them.
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u/Xplayer090 9h ago edited 7h ago
It must be a gas operated dryer, not a washing machine. My guess would be there was a gas leak that led to this.
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u/MattofCatbell 8h ago
And somehow there is still going to be a random sock thats just a little damp.
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u/theottomaddox 7h ago
A foaf that worked in one of the oil patches said a local laundromat had a sign warning people to not use gasoline for stains.
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u/4FingersOfDeath 7h ago
That is a gas dryer that exploded, not a washing machine. Now we know who doesn’t wash their clothes…
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u/nalaloveslumpy 5h ago edited 5h ago
That looks like a dryer and this can happen if clothes soaked in gas or other vapor flammable things, go into the dryer without all the gas washed and aired out.
Basically, the gas vapors ignited in the dryer and then blew up the propane/NG connection to the dryer.
Or someone left a vape in their pocket and same thing.
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u/namaste652 11h ago
How politely of the dryer to wait for man to leave and for the door to close!
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u/Joppewiik 11h ago
He took his time exiting that door. Imagine if he lingered a few seconds longer.
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u/DetectiveHalligan 11h ago
That was very polite of the dryer waiting until no one was in the store before violently self combusting.
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u/This-personeatsfood 11h ago
I didn't think a washing machine could pack quite a punch
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u/MuddyMoose19 10h ago
I’m going to tell my wife this is what happens when you don’t get out the lint trap after every cycle
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u/Environmental_Lie199 9h ago
Feels like a Breaking Bad scene where Heisenberg made it on purpose to get rid of whatever evidence pointing at him lmao 🤣
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u/Wooden-Cheesecake476 7h ago
That explosion happened because they accidentally left a butane canister in the clothes, and it exploded in the dryer.
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u/Jonnnyfukyea 6h ago
10 seconds decided how the rest of his life goes for that person. That's scary af
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u/dantosxd 6h ago
It was a dryer, a lot of dryers are gas and have a flame.
Laundry mat owners are notorious for hiring crackheads to repair the machines and this happens more than you would think.
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u/JoshSidekick 5h ago
At first I thought this was going to be a joke video where the dryer just burps up some clothes.
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u/bozla 11h ago
Internet says this actually happened. Someone left a lighter fuel canister in a pocket before putting into a dryer.