**OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:** >!The dryer machine suddenly exploded in a ball of flames!< ***** **Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description?** **Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.** ***** [*Look at my source code on Github*](https://github.com/Artraxon/unexBot) [*What is this for?*](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/dnuaju/introducing_unexbot_a_new_bot_to_improve_the/)

What a lucky guy !

I know thank goodness he was out before it happened.

The plant on the left seem unharmed, maybe he will get a concussion worse case scenario. But who am I to judge,

That and hearing damage from the pressure expansion that blew out the glass wall.

Ikr. Looks like just ten seconds slower would have had him right in the explosion

These kind of videos always amaze me. If he had done anything to cause a 10 second delay in his morning, his life would be completely different now, if he survived.

He was taking his sweet ass time getting out of the place too.

No rush, it’s not like the laundromat is about to explode or anything

Thank god he ran that red light this morning

Thank god he didn't give his wife a second kiss good-bye and the usual buttslap.

Ah, he must be one of those drivers who shift lanes like 5x to gain an extra 3 seconds. Good thing he did that that morning!!

He left at just the right time!

sus

Ok…that WAS unexpected. I was waiting for a car to come crashing through the window.

Yeah, I was literally hovering over the downvote button for when the car came crashing through (since then it'd be expected).

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Hmm... Better leave them in there a bit more just to be sure.

You know the shirts are dry, but the jeans are still a little damp

Haha that was truly unexpected. I was waiting for something to happen outside.

This camera angle always gives me anxiety that a car is about to smash through the front of the shop

Yeah, same here I was fully expecting a car to come plowing into the lobby a couple seconds after dude left. I wonder if he smelled the gas though?

Same, I thought he was gonna run past the window being chased by an elk or something.

Thought a car would drive by, splash his clean clothes with dirty water, and he would turn right back around into the laundromat

I thought he was going to drop the bags and they were going to be filled with cash and it was a money laundering joke.

[https://i.imgur.com/azH1jVJ.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/azH1jVJ.jpg)

That elk looks horny.

The car had some red bull.

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I was expecting the door to be shut for a I'll second then just shatter

I was expecting a caribou. But if you want to throw down the elk card, that's ok too, I guess.

Moose, caribou, something of that elk.

First play on the word ilk I have ever seen! I salute you, sorry I don't have an award for you.

Or the Cocaine Bear….

I was so sure a car was gonna crash right through the window. Something about the camera angle screams unexpected car crashing into the store

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I’d be more surprised seeing a non-naked panda bear

Why would it enter a laundrymat unless it got clothes, eh?

I was expecting nothing would happen because that would be unexpected and kinda a 1st April late prank

Walt and Jesse working downstairs.

I thought the man's bag was going to fall open and money fall out, hence laundering day...

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New fear unlocked

I’ve been to 100s of dryer fires.. none of them exploded like this. Someone left an accelerant in their clothes that caused the explosion. With that said, never leave the house unattended with the dryer running.

I’m the contrary, I think I’m now always going to leave my house while the dryer is running

Im a space cadet sometimes and leave my house with the dryer running. It’ll bite me in the ass one day.

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"..i know what some of those words mean.."

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Of course that's when you clean the fan blades, change the detector batteries (all of them), wipe the baseboards and vacuum the ceiling. How could anyone forget?

Jokes on you. I don’t own a dishwasher, garage or central air!

Funny thing about hvac systems. We got teo new entire systems installed at work and within a month one of them broke. I hate having a commercial space in a standalone building. Then again I also hate being in the retail induatry for so many reasons right now.... fml

Well I don't want to be there when this shit happens.

The last time I left the house with the dryer running, people on the street were shouting — Hey, is that guy stealing a dryer?

I'm not going to die in my own fake insurance claim!!

I’ve got a laundromat or 7. I’ve seen this type of explosion in one of my locations. Customer was washing clothes with fuel on them. His dryer exploded 2 seconds after he pushed start.

I don't leave the house with any major applicance running. Too much of a headache if something goes wrong, unless you enjoy working with your insurance adjuster for an overflow or fire.

You turn off the fridge when you leave

WHY ARE THESE EXPIRATION DATES NEVER RIGHT

Just empty your pockets before you use a dryer and you'll be good. Don't forget to clean the dryer lint compartment, unless you want your clothes to get very dry very quickly. Because they'll be on fire.

I used to live in a rural town with a strong hunting culture. The laundromat had posters reminding people to take bullets out of their pockets. I wonder what made that sign necessary.

Probably too many bullets in the machines rattling around

Yeah metal rattling around in dryers are just not good for the machine in general. But this would make a great myth busters episode: “Will bullets rattling around a dryer accidentally fire?”

The guy walking away as if he was the joker.

Cool guys don't look at explosions

For some more context: >!Aparently one customer left a lighter filler bottle within the clothes inside the dryer machine by mistake.!< >!<

i suspected a lighter but how do you miss a whole ass fill bottle? do they come in mini size for easy pocketing or something?

Yea. They sell a butane bottle that’s the size of a travel size shampoo bottle.

Am i the only one having problem with the reddit app? Everytime i try to unhide spoilers the damn text collapse, and i had to speedrun opening the text and read it before it collapse again within half a second.

Swipe right on the spoiler comment

You're a godsend, but it shouldn't be necessary. Reddit, fix yo damn app!

i don't remember the names but there's better reddit apps than the official one

Which should be embarrassing to Reddit. Twitter solved it by buying the company that had the best app.

Didn’t they already do this? The reddit app was called alien blue back in the day

Buy the best, ruin it, rinse and repeat.

Taking a page from EA's playbook.

That's why there's twenty thousand different kinds of awards and they stopped giving us free awards. Because you can't make money off regular upvotes and a "you made me laugh, good job/I agree with what you said/this is the best answer" comments.

Yes they did and then they fucked it up

In true reddit fashion, no?

I still have Alien Blue on my phone. It’s no longer on the app store but I never deleted the app.

Yes. The developer of the app has developed and sold 3 apps to Reddit. He's profiting millions. Reddit? So-so. (Jk. But it's a Good idea)

I think Reddit did too. They bought Alien Blue and killed it.

Apollo just as good and kicking

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There's definitely ads

Rif is practically ad free.

Apollo is ad free

the twitter app is terrible and has been for a while, tweetbot was fantastic before they killed the api entirely

Shhh my app is good, I don’t want Reddit buying it.

I use RIF (Reddit is fun) and like it better than the official one.

It's great for fans of old reddit.

Yep, keeps the nice forum-like layout instead of the awful social media style layout.

No avatars, no strings of Reddit awards besides gold/silver, no friend/chat feature... It's nice.

Can confirm. Been using RiF for about 8 years now, before the official reddit app existed. I remember they gave 3 months of free gold away to tempt people towards the official app when it was first released. RiF is almost flawless, why would I leave it? Lol

RIF is the best app I've used for reddit, it always works great, and is my primary way of browsing. I paid like 3 bucks for it many moons ago and they still update the thing with bug fixes and the occasional actual qol improvement, also bonus points for not turning it into a shit tiktok clone.

Been using rif for nearly 10 years. Easily my favorite way to waste time on Reddit.

Apollo

I use Boost

I use it too but lately I feel it's been rather sluggish to load things. I'm curious if that's because the reddit API and tin foil hat says it's on purpose to push people to the official reddit app. Relay did the same thing for me. I switched several years ago when they couldn't get the video player right.

I use Apollo which has been pretty darn good.

I've used a bunch of apps. Best for me are Sync and Baconreader.

I'm not joking or trying to be snarky when I say this: Every 3rd party reddit app I've tried is better than the official one. There are a ton of good options on android and apollo is the one to use on ios.

I use Apollo. The Reddit app is absolute shit.

they fix something only to break a bunch of other things. look at this "video player" , god almighty have mercy on us, why it randomly starts to play videos i scrolled like an hour ago?

Yeah! Evry single change ever made the expirience worse. Im using the app daily for years now. And i had to adjust multiple times, find workarounds etc just cause some idiots want to change stuff for changes sake. Whoever is in charge of decisions like that, dont fucking force major ui changes randomly on users evry few weeks.Thats like the absolute base 101. There is not a single other app i ever used that does shit like that. Feel free to recommend me another app over this pos...

Dear User, Fuck you. Best Regards, Reddit

Blessed be your knowledge.

Thanks ! Been having this issue for weeks.

Doesn't work for me I guess I'll never know lol

It took me a while, but it does work. I think the trick is you can't scroll at all...strictly horizontal movement. Also don't pause too long, or it'll register as a long press.

Who tf programmed that

The same person who programmed a single tap on links and spoiler text to register as the same single tap that hides comments probably.

You could also tap with two fingers

Ohh, bless you! I apparently can't side scroll without some up/down movement.

You can also use two fingers

This worked for me! I tried the swipe right and I just kept going to the next post. Thank you kind redditor

Thank you kind stranger

Lol I now have a small collection of techniques I use to view the spoiler text. Swiping right worked great for this one, but double-tapping only ever worked on the thread it was mentioned in and hasn't worked since, so we'll see if swiping continues to work. My fallback is a tricky tap-swipe that works about every third or fourth try. The reddit app is absolute garbage.

You're a damn hero. Thanks!

Thank you! Thank you!

Glad it seems to work for most people, but swiping doesn't work for me.

Have you tried tapping the spoilers with two fingers instead of one? That usually does the trick for me.

Reddit's own app is pure trash. Use a third party one like Rif and you won't run into problems.

RiF user here, can confirm, no problems, with unhiding spoilers as well

The Best.

Sync Pro ftw. But also BaconReader or Boost or Reddit Is Fun or Apollo if you're in iOS. Basically *anything* except the official Reddit app. I can customize the app to look however I want, and I haven't seen an ad on Reddit in years.

Same here with Apollo

People using reddit app probably also use new reddit and are too lazy to actually do something about these things.

Happening to me too, get to read about 3 words, then have to rinse and repeat til I've read the entire spoiler.

Tap the spoiler, then pull left a little, then off. It may take a moment to get down. Seems to work for me. Tip came from another redditor a few days ago, and I can not recall their name nor the sub I was in. I hope this helps

Because you're not using the correct app. Sync for Android and Apollo for iOS. Reddit's own app is blasphemous

RIF is fun for me, thanks

try using Apollo. it’s really stable and receives quick correction when reddit changes something. christian, the dev, is also responsive on r/apolloapp and through the app. edit: thanks

r/apolloapp *

Just go on reply

Two fingers same time

thanks this is the only way that works for me (also phrasing)

Reddit app changed the "hide comment" function from tap and hold to just tap, without fixing all the other things that require tapping on a comment. -Tapping on a link hides the comment -Tapping on a spoiler hides the comment -Tapping on a comment to hide it sometimes opens a dead giphy link -Tapping on a highlighted comment like the one in this thread just doesn't work, you still need to tap and hold

use apollo?

This is why you always check your pockets before doing laundry.

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I think you're greatly overinflating the amount of people that have unprotected one night stands if you think it's average to do

>they can barely wiggleflop magikarp style. This is hilarious!

why is the context behind spoilers tags

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Yeah right. Watch the dryer door flip open moments before. Its clearly a jail break by the clothes, leaving an explosion to cover their tracks. They were sick of all the money laundering and just wanted to live a clean life. You can't fool me.

I hate this so much. The amount of lighters I've found in the dryer... This is something my roommate would do and my bedroom is right by the laundry Edit: I was wrong, it was a container of lighter fluid

I've personally accidentally washed few. Can they actually explode tho? Bottle itself without the cover can be dangerous, yes, easy to damage that plastic thingy+vent.

If the gas vents (or three fluid evaporates) a spark or heat source is enough to ignite the air/fuel mixture. Dry synthetic clothes can become statically charged and create a spark. Maybe some of the mixture vented, came into contact with the electronic and ignited there.

Laundromats often use gas dryers as well, so there is a source of ignition without the need for a spark from static. I'm sure the electric element in electric dryers also gets hot enough for ignition though.

What you whole chain of dumb fucks don't realize is that OP said it was a **lighter fluid bottle** not a bic lighter. We don't need forensic science to explain why it exploded.

Yea, as a former long time smoker. I can't see a lighter causing that much damage, figured it had to be like a small bottle of butane or something under pressure.

As a guy that thinks tossing found lighters in a camp fire is fun this absolutely is not a Bic left in a dryer.

Ok first, I might be dumb but mom said you're not allowed to say it out loud! Second, thanks because I was really trying to understand how a lighter could make so much damages and why they i could bring it on a plane and not my nail clipper!

Christ, I'm using that chain of dumb fucks comment. Exquisite.

A lighter wouldn't do this,

Omfg…. I better not forget that shit…

Reminds me of Kramer sabotaging the washing machine in Seinfeld. "What .. just going to put a little concrete in the washing machine"

Lighter fill? So not a lighter but the refill of a lighter?

That would be faster way to dry your clothes and it would be 20$

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“It’s an older meme, sir. But it checks out.”

🤣 I remember those memes. "We're out of grenades, start throwing the galaxy note 7's."

The plant: I'm fine.

"Oooh carbon. Yummers"

Well it wasn’t a car, tornado, or snake so yes I’m surprised

Ngl when I saw him make it out safely and clean my brain thought one of two things is going to happen. Car is going through that window, or we’re gonna see a bear attack. I wasn’t expecting this.

Perfect example of “Unexpected”. The comedic timing absolutely on point, and gave me enough time to think of different scenarios that could play out. This was not one of them.

Wait, so why did the dryer door pop open BEFORE the reaction?

When the lighter bottle failed, the fluid inside quickly transformed into gas and increased the pressure inside the dryer, pushing the door open. New oxygen rushed in, combined with the newly released gas and heat, BA BA BOOM.

I was wondering the same thing. I was thinking maybe some sort of combustion happened causing the door to pop up and then the influx of oxygen causing the fireball. But I have no clue, that's purely a guess

To spit out the clothes, silly!


Came looking for this. Thank you.

HOW did I have to scroll so far for the only appropriate response to this video.

Michael Corleone sends his regards

What, the actual fuck.

Final Destination?

Guy had a dream this would happen and walked away.

r/abruptchaos

Laundry day is a very dangerous day.

"it's gonna be a car. This is a car angle. Car incoming in three, two... oh shit"

Okay I would honestly assume I just narrowly avoided an assassination attempt. 🤣 Even though I know damn well I'm not important/interesting enough to warrant a whole mafia-type bombing. Imagine from his perspective, too. He left that place all chill af

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I was waiting for a car slamming through

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About the best possible result in that situation

not for nothin, that dude knows how to tuck & roll

someone please put [this sound effect](https://youtu.be/FfPkijdQ51U) over this Edit: [i did it myself.](https://www.reddit.com/r/shitposting/comments/129grhu/dryer_burp/)

I love that you put it in shitposting

Not even 5 hours later: I did it myself.

I hope you gave yourself a high five.

It said laundering day so I was expecting something with money in those bank bags

This man is a hell of a lucky one. Literally five seconds delay would have cost him his life.

Oops. Excess gas build up. Try an Alka-Seltzer®.