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The autumn chill convinced Øystein Bøen from Skien to turn on the heating oven in his home for the first time this season. A forgotten can of bug spray on the top of the oven exploded an hour later, destroying the living area of the house, newspaper Telemarksavisa reports.
"I thought judgment day had come. The explosion was like a bomb dropping. Shelves and things on the walls rained down around me. Thank God I wasn't in the living room," Bøen told the newspaper.
Bøen had been working a floor above in his home office, and was on his way down the stairs to watch sports on television when the blast tore through his house.
"All of the six windows in the room blew out. Even in the kitchen in the other end of the house has a cracked window. Two of the living room walls have been moved four to six inches off the floor and foundation, and I could see down to the ground," Bøen recalled.
"The strange thing was that the TV was still on and a vase on top of it hadn't moved a millimeter. The sofa was in flames and I grabbed the fire extinguisher and put it out," Bøen said.
At this point Bøen had no idea what had happened, and said he had "a kind of Baghdad feeling" until he found bits of the spray can.
A closer examination of the house revealed even more damage, with a ruptured water pipe in the bathroom making the likely cost of the accident well over NOK 100,000 (USD 15,000).
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article891638.ece
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