HOME RIPPED APART BY HOSIERY EXPLOSION
An elderly woman is today recovering in Froghill General after an explosion flattened her home and blew her legs apart yesterday afternoon.
Grandmother Ellie Ramsbotham was on her way to make a cup of tea when the explosion tore through her house in Swindler's Lane, Traubert's Heath.
People living nearby told how they were startled by the massive blast which occurred just after 1pm.
“One minute I’m making myself a spot of toad in the hole for lunch,” said neighbour Wilfred ‘Cherry’ Bakewell, “the next thing I know there’s this terrific bang and I’m flat on my back with sausages raining down on me.”
Emergency services arrived on the scene and pulled the 91-year-old pensioner from the wreckage before rushing her to the hospital's Blast Aid, Support and Treatment for Anally Retentive Dotards (BASTARD) unit.
“It seems that she’d forgotten to turn off the gas after breakfast and then fallen asleep in a chair,” said firefighter Ted Denbigh.
“When she woke up and went into the kitchen, the rubbing together of her surgical stockings generated enough static to create a spark.
The spark leapt between her knees and it was this that ignited the gas.”
"We strongly recommend that old people have their stockings earthed, particularly during extended spells of dry weather" he added.
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22/05/07 @ 09:39