Beware the exploding deodorant can!

wow! its the first time i heard this.. thanks for the information and i will remind my brother about this.

waaaaaaaaahhh! this is freaky. good thing i dont have a car! seriously, they should remove all those types of products. i know they have a warning to keep it out of fire, but it is still dangerous. we should be looking for alternatives.

No, but I know how dangerous these can be as I have seen kids messing about with them. Where I used to live they would make fires and throw them onto it, they seemed to think it great fun to have them explode. They are so dangerous and I dont think many people realise how dangerous they really are.

the incident that happened to us was not so much dangerous as just silly. we were living in Tempe arizona at the time, someyears back and had been grocery shopping. somehow a tube of ready to bake biscuits had been tossed up onto the back window space in our car, actually two tubes and suddenly on this very hot day as we were deciding whether to take our groceries home first then go to our favorite restaurant we heard a loud bang, and we both looked in the back. we had exploding biscuits shooting out of both tins, biscuits all over the back seat. another timewe weredriving through santa ana past a huge fire in a Sears warehouse when we had to stop. the aerosol cans in the factory kept going off like guided missiles and were hitting cars and everything else. we just sat there for a long timee as traffic had been halted and was being routed around the danger zone. every few minutes another can would sail out the windows of the warehouse.we must have been in that line for almost an hour as they got traffic unsnarled.

Wow. I guess your son will think twice before leaving aerosol proucts in his car. They tell you not to expose those cans to heat and most people don't realize how hot their car can get when it's parked. A metal can left on the dashboard could get especially hot in the sun. I'm glad he wasn't in the car when it exploded. Thank goodness for that. As for me, I haven't really had anything like that happen to me. The worst that has exploded in my car was a can of soda that exploded because it froze in the car in the winter time.

Something similar to this was on the show "Mythbusters" on the Discovery channel. They left soda cans in a hot car in hopes of them blowing up.

Well, that is the very exact reason that we older folk have the saying, "I told you so" but you didn't listen.. I am thankful that he didn't get hurt but when we were younger we had to learn by doing also.. The lessons that we can learn can get to be very expensive..