German boy causes toilet to explode

A 13-year-old German boy has been blown out of his home after he caused a toilet to explode, says the Mail On Sunday.

Dennis Bueller sprayed his downstairs lavatory with air freshener then began to play with a lighter, which ignited a fireball that hurled him through a window.

"I sprayed the toilet because it smelled," he said. "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."

Bueller, from the northern city of Recklinghausen, suffered burns to his face, arms, legs and upper body and will require months of treatment.

His father Artur commented: "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."