Flame thrown: Boy hurled through window when toilet exploded after he sprayed air freshener then sparked a lighte

Flame thrown: Boy hurled through window when toilet exploded after he sprayed air freshener then sparked a lighter

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:50 PM on 12th November 2008

A German schoolboy was blown out of his toilet and through a window when the lavatory exploded into a fireball after he sparked a lighter just moments after spraying the room with air freshener.

The toilet turned into an orange fireball when Dennis Bueller, 13, began playing with a lighter after he sprayed the downstairs WC in his home.

'I sprayed the toilet because it smelled,' said Dennis.

' Then I began fiddling with a lighter my dad left in there and suddenly there was this big orange whoosh! of flame. I woke up outside with my clothes burned off me and smelling like a barbecue.'
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Dennis Bueller's toilet exploded after he sparked a lighter just moments after spraying some air freshener

The tin of Purple Rose air freshener stated that it was not to be used near naked flame but Dennis admitted he hadn’t read the instructions.

The boy from Recklinghausen was rushed to hospital but later transferred to a specialist burns unit. He has suffered burns over his face, arms, legs and upper body and will need months of treatment.

His father Artur Bueller said; 'Poor Dennis. When the doctors have to change his bandages he has to be knocked out, the pain is so great.

'He said the downstairs loo smelled but I think he realises he was a bit dim in playing with a lighter.'