Crazy Eddie
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'EXPLODING SALAD DRESSING RIPPED MY KITCHEN APART'
14:37 - 15 November 2002
A bottle of salad dressing had more kick than Ann Britten expected when it turned into a bomb, ripping apart her kitchen.
Mrs Britten told yesterday how the bottle exploded, sending the fridge door flying into her kitchen door.
The bottle then ricocheted and smashed through a window ending up 20ft down the garden.
The coconut and lemon-grass dressing exploded with such force it also pushed out the kitchen wall and caused impact damage around the loft hatch above the fridge.
Mrs Britten, 54, and husband Geoffrey, 64, had retired to Dorset for the quiet life but were shocked to come home and find their kitchen a bomb site at West Bay, near Bridport.
It is thought the out-of-date Marks & Spencer salad dressing had fermented causing gases to build up which were released in the explosion.
Mrs Britten, a retired nurse, said: "We could have been blown away if we were here.
"I thought at first the place had been hit by a big firework rocket mortar because there was debris everywhere.
"It was just like a bomb had hit the place."
(Bath Chronicle)
'EXPLODING SALAD DRESSING RIPPED MY KITCHEN APART'
14:37 - 15 November 2002
A bottle of salad dressing had more kick than Ann Britten expected when it turned into a bomb, ripping apart her kitchen.
Mrs Britten told yesterday how the bottle exploded, sending the fridge door flying into her kitchen door.
The bottle then ricocheted and smashed through a window ending up 20ft down the garden.
The coconut and lemon-grass dressing exploded with such force it also pushed out the kitchen wall and caused impact damage around the loft hatch above the fridge.
Mrs Britten, 54, and husband Geoffrey, 64, had retired to Dorset for the quiet life but were shocked to come home and find their kitchen a bomb site at West Bay, near Bridport.
It is thought the out-of-date Marks & Spencer salad dressing had fermented causing gases to build up which were released in the explosion.
Mrs Britten, a retired nurse, said: "We could have been blown away if we were here.
"I thought at first the place had been hit by a big firework rocket mortar because there was debris everywhere.
"It was just like a bomb had hit the place."
(Bath Chronicle)