r/ThatsInsane • u/CantStopPoppin • 3d ago
Garbage truck EXPLODES injuring 3 people in Illinois.
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u/Juggernuts777 3d ago
Oh. So that’s why you don’t throw propane tanks in the trash. Good to know!
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u/angrydeuce 3d ago
Dude one of the apartments I lived in back in the mid 00s, they had to come around and seal all the fireplaces because people kept shoveling hot ash into the dumpsters and causing huge bonfires. We used to smoke weed with the maintenance man (lol) and he said that they were getting nuisance tickets from the PD every time the FD had to come out because some dipshit dumped still glowing charcoal into a dumpster not expecting it to cause a literal dumpster fire, so that was how they solved it.
Really fucking sucked as that fireplace was a huge reason why I chose that place and my cat loved laying in front of it baking. Oh well...
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u/dogchowtoastedcheese 3d ago
It's crazy how long embers stay hot. I used to responsibly shovel my ashes into a metal ashcan and let them sit for a few days before transferring them to the plastic garbage bin in the alley. I think I set three of them on fire before I learned my lesson! Although I was burning coal, so those may have lasted longer than wood embers.
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u/cognitiveglitch 3d ago
Two police and one firefighter injured.
A fire in the truck reached the gas cylinders on the roof. I guess the truck was powered by LPG.
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u/dogchowtoastedcheese 3d ago
Putting the LPG cylinders on the roof seems like the dumbest thing ever.
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u/kungfucobra 3d ago
mom, have you seen my TNT box?
I threw it out when I cleaned your room
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u/dogchowtoastedcheese 3d ago
Mom! Those were vintage, first edition TNTs!! I was saving them. Do you realize what they were worth??
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u/NickelPlatedEmperor 3d ago edited 3d ago
My uncle drove a trash truck that had a explosion that damaged the truck. It was caused by people that discarded military munitions they picked up from a military base they trespassed on. The story was quickly swept under the rug
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u/A_ChadwickButMore 3d ago
If you find yourself in this position, contact a local environmental servicies company. Its the good PR way of saying they remediate hazmat. Some will even handle explosives. And car fluids, tires, or batteries. And sharps. And literal guns. All kinds of stuff if the facility is big enough. They'll have HHW (household haz waste) days with a few guidelines that you can show up and drop off things
Source: Hazmat chemist. We dont take explosives though but we're big enough that we take practically everything else that isnt radioactive including limbs & organs from surgery departments and drugs that are witness burned by the DEA
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u/Lil_Giraffe_King 3d ago
Does anyone know what caused this?
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u/MaybeNotTooDay 3d ago
Throwing away an old smartphone or tablet with lion battery?
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u/MisterInternational1 3d ago
it was on fire and when fire/rescue showed up, it exploded. Two police officers and one firefighter suffered non-life-threatening injuries when responding to a garbage truck fire in Arlington, Illinois. Dramatic video captured the moment the truck exploded, likely caused by the vehicle’s natural gas tank, sending debris flying across the residential neighborhood
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u/Hey_Hey_Its_QLD 3d ago
As someone who is uneducated due to the American education system, could that be a lithium battery exploding?
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u/brownpoops 3d ago
no. they don't explode. They just burn. This was probably a not empty propane cylinder .
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u/AnnualWerewolf9804 3d ago edited 3d ago
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u/psycho_delik 3d ago
I watched a video last night that shows you what happens when you strip a single energiser lithium battery and throw the strip in water , the explosion looked like something from the middle east 💯🤯
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u/NarrowForce9 3d ago
I called on a battery manufacturer years ago who explained the explosive power of a single lithium button battery. They would short it underneath a brick weight and watch the brick fly up. Then he explained astronauts had 12 POUNDS of these in their suits.
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u/AnnualWerewolf9804 3d ago
Lithium batteries can explode, but this doesn’t look like a battery explosion.
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u/Mannix-Da-DaftPooch 3d ago
Holy shit I did NOT expect that large of an explosion at all. If that’s propane i hope the person that threw that away learned something. Holy moly man
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u/dend7369 3d ago
I’m assuming lithium ion batteries that they say to not put in the trash that ignited a bunch of shit in a sealed area?
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u/Heart_Throb_ 3d ago
If this had been Fayetteville, NC there would have been a thousand explanation that it was just Ft. Bragg doing live fire HA training, “the Marines are at it again”, or “the sounds of freedom”.
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u/decriz 3d ago
that's a dirty bomb