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Man fixes airbed, then blows up flat

A German who tried to fix his leaky air mattress blew up his apartment instead, the fire brigade in Duesseldorf said last week.

The 45-year-old man used tyre repair solvent to plug a hole in his airbed and left it overnight.

But it blew up when he went to inflate it the next day. “A spark from the electric air pump ignited it,” a fire brigade spokesman said.

The blast pushed his living room wall into the building’s stairwell and caused damage to walls, windows and furniture.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .