It is irritating when you sit down for a meal and a fly keeps buzzing around you, so I sympathise with an octogenarian from Parcoul-Chernaud in the Dordogne who suffered this fate.
Instead of just waving his arms around ineffectively, he decided to use an electric swat to zap the pesky insect. Unfortunately, he was unaware that he had a leaking gas cylinder in his house. There was a chemical reaction between the gas and the fly swat which resulted in an almighty explosion, which destroyed part of his kitchen and knocked a big hole in the roof, rendering his home uninhabitable.
He is now living on a local campsite while his house is repaired. What happened to the fly is anybody’s guess.
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