Now don't all you people feel guilty for chasing all the smokers outside?
A MAN was killed by a horrific explosion in a garden shed at his parents' home after popping outside for a smoke.
Investigators believe the 31-year-old victim was visiting relatives in Tyldesley, near Atherton, when he went out of the house to smoke a cigarette.
It is thought he went into the shed to shelter from the rain and accidentally ignited petrol stored in the outbuilding while he was lighting up. The shed exploded into a ball of flame, leaving the man with 100 per cent burns.
Note that the man who called the fire brigade was awake because he couldn't sleep and got up for a smoke, which he had inside his house and so was near the phone. Something for Nelson Peters and Marla Irving and Linda Bloom to think about, eh?
