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Death By Welding Experiment
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(3 September 2018, New Zealand) Howard Miller, 39, is greatly missed by his peeps, yet his death-by-welding-experiment was the fault of no one but himself, and its audacity earns him a Darwin Award. The facts provide an important safety lesson:
Miller spent his last moments helping a friend weld an exhaust manifold onto a classic Holden Kingswood sedan. He arrived at 4:30 pm with an LPG bottle filled with both components of oxy-acetylene welding gas: acetylene and oxygen. Even writing this causes me to instinctively shudder!
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ORIGINAL SUBMISSION:
A guy in New Zealand wanted to do some welding on his mate so car so true to fashion a homemade welder.... instead he literally blew himself to pieces
Submitted on 09/04/2018
Submitted by:
Julie Robertson
Reference:
nzherald.co.nz