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A martial arts enthusiast pulls a vehicle with a rope connected to his eye sockets during a performance in Hefei, Anhui province November 30, 2009. Picture taken November 30, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily

Pictures of the year: Oddly

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    Man blows up apartment spraying for bugs?

    Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:42pm EDT
    A cockroach is trapped on a sticky card after escaping from the race tracks during the Great Cockroach Derby in Singapore, August 10, 2006. REUTERS/Kimitsu Yogachi

    NEW YORK, July 21 - A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.

    Oddly Enough

    Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper.

    The accident occurred as Maceda was spraying for pests in his kitchen. Somehow the bug spray ignited a blast that blew out the apartment's front windows and triggered a fire that quickly spread, the newspaper said.

    Police told the newspaper that the Saturday blaze also caused smoke damage to the apartment above.



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