Hairdressers, not the brightness

WalterMitty

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Hairdresser-Jennifer-Mitchell-Dies-When-Car-Explodes-After-She-Lights-Cigarette-Igniting-Peroxide/Article/201003415583415?lpos=UK_News_News_Your_Way_Region_4&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15583415_Hairdresser_Jennifer_Mitchell_Dies_When_Car_Explodes_After_She_Lights_Cigarette_Igniting_Peroxide

Darwin award winner i think.

Danbo!

WalterMitty wrote: »

Hairdressers, not the brightness

Ahem

Gummy Panda

Cut and paste story for m.boards users please

orourkeda

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Danbo!

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A hairdresser was killed when she lit a cigarette in her car, apparently igniting hydrogen peroxide fumes from her equipment, her parents have said.


Jennifer Mitchell, 19, had been due to marry her fiance next year
The body of Jennifer Mitchell, 19, a mobile stylist from Shaftesbury, Dorset, was found earlier this month after her Mini was engulfed in flames.
Her parents believe the chemical - used for dyeing and bleaching - may have leaked and caused the fatal explosion when she lit up.
Bob Mitchell and wife Pauline are urging others in the profession to take care when carrying around hydrogen peroxide, a common tool of the trade.
Mrs Mitchell told the Bournemouth Echo: "We want to warn people how volatile hydrogen peroxide is, even if it is kept in the boot of a car - Jennie's friends have all said they carry it."
Mr Mitchell, a fireman and BT engineer, added: "The hydrogen peroxide had ventilated in the car. She opened the window, which introduced oxygen.
"Jennie was a smoker and it's likely that she lit or had alight a cigarette."
Ms Mitchell, a qualified hairdresser, spent much of her free time enjoying horse riding and surfing.
She was due to marry her 21-year-old fiance Russell Andrews next year.
Police were called to Stalbridge Common just after 9am on Tuesday, March 9, following a report of a vehicle ablaze.
Fire crews extinguished the flames and the teenager's body was found inside.
Her death was described as a "tragic accident" by the Dorset force and no appeal was made for witnesses.
Ms Mitchell's inquest briefly opened at Dorchester Crown Court last Tuesday.
The evidence will be heard in full later this year.
Her funeral service will be held at Yeovil Crematorium on March 30.

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Shelga

What is this brightness of which you speak?

BaZmO*

Bit harsh OP, it was an accident. It's not as if she had a bottle of peroxide in her hand at the time.

SV

that's a terrible story..
poor girl RIP

WalterMitty

Shelga wrote: »

What is this brightness of which you speak?

i was thinking of how the car looked after she light the ciggie. Should read Brightest of course!

Gummy Panda

I don't see what's so stupid about it.

She didn't know it was leaking into the car.

phasers

Wow what a stereotype, she even drives a mini

The_Kew_Tour

Jesus the person dies and Op thinks its funny.

Fail

El Weirdo

phasers wrote: »

Wow what a stereotype, she even drove a mini

FYP.

Her funeral service will be held at Yeovil Crematorium on March 30.

Overkill much?

Degag

BaZmO* wrote: »

Bit harsh OP, it was an accident. It's not as if she had a bottle of peroxide in her hand at the time.

adrian280582 wrote: »

Jesus the person dies and Op thinks its funny.

Fail

To be fair to the OP, if he had not made a joke about it, someone else would have.

This is After Hours lest ye forget.

AgileMyth

Hardly Darwin winning standard. The most recent nominee is a guy who put an electrical fence around his car to prevent it being stolen...and then walked into it.

Gummy Panda

phasers wrote: »

Wow what a stereotype, she even drives a mini

Still jealous of the girls down in Barcode on a Friday night?

Bonito

Degag wrote: »

To be fair to the OP, if he had not made a joke about it, someone else would have.

This is After Hours lest ye forget.

When you croak it we'll remember to make a few gags about it

TheDictionary wrote:

"The Brightness" = Not WalterMitty

Must have been a massive leak and very concentrated stuff. Hydrogen peroxide fumes are basically just oxygen.

starbelgrade

I wonder if she was going anywhere nice when she was driving the car?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Degag wrote: »

To be fair to the OP, if he had not made a joke about it, someone else would have.

This is After Hours lest ye forget.

Just because this is after hours, doesn't make it ok to joke about dead people, have a laugh at their misfortune etc etc. "This is after hours" is a load of bollox of an excuse to be inhumane.

Horrible way to die. Poor woman.
RIP.

Degag

Bonito wrote: »

When you croak it we'll remember to make a few gags about it

I hope ye do!

Barrett Rancid Cobbler wrote: »

Just because this is after hours, doesn't make it ok to joke about dead people, have a laugh at their misfortune etc etc. "This is after hours" is a load of bollox of an excuse to be inhumane.

Horrible way to die. Poor woman.
RIP.

It may not be right or nice but that's just the way it is.

star.chaser

Bonito wrote: »

When you croak it we'll remember to make a few gags about it



Must have been a massive leak and very concentrated stuff. Hydrogen peroxide fumes are basically just oxygen.

i think your getting this mixed up with hydrogen. hydrogen peroxide is more like a bleach. used a lot in industrial cleaning products. we used to mix this with other chemicals and it had to be done outdoors because of the reaction it has and the fumes that come off it when its mixed.

Bonito

Nope. Hydrogen peroxide vapours are oxygen. This process occurs naturally or can be sped up with the catalyst manganese dioxide.

L.Jenkins

WalterMitty wrote: »

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Hairdresser-Jennifer-Mitchell-Dies-When-Car-Explodes-After-She-Lights-Cigarette-Igniting-Peroxide/Article/201003415583415?lpos=UK_News_News_Your_Way_Region_4&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15583415_Hairdresser_Jennifer_Mitchell_Dies_When_Car_Explodes_After_She_Lights_Cigarette_Igniting_Peroxide

Darwin award winner i think.

I always said smoking kills and that would do well in the Anti Smoking campaign!!!

TechnoPool

ah lads, bit early.


RIP:o

L.Jenkins

May the girl rest in peace, but as one of the lads said, her unfortunate and untimely departure is worthy of a Darwin Award.

Riddle101

Wow i'm quite surprised with After Hours nowadays. It's like AH has some sort of multiple personality disorder because you get some threads on here where someone dies and people come off as insensitive and mean when posting, but then you get other death threads where it seems to be looked down apon to be making controversal comments. Just thinks it's weird.

L.Jenkins

Riddle101 wrote: »

Wow i'm quite surprised with After Hours nowadays. It's like AH has some sort of multiple personality disorder because you get some threads on here where someone dies and people come off as insensitive and mean when posting, but then you get other death threads where it seems to be looked down apon to be making controversal comments. Just thinks it's weird.

I think it was possibly the fact that I was making a mockery of the situation, which I don't intend to do. It would make an interesting anti smoking add though.

star.chaser

Bonito wrote: »

Nope. Hydrogen peroxide vapours are oxygen. This process occurs naturally or can be sped up with the catalyst manganese dioxide.

Warning from hydrogen peroxide container:

"Avoid inhaling hydrogen peroxide fumes. If inhaled, get to fresh air"

hairdressers use it to bleach hair. it's not oxegen and neither are it's fumes.

Bonito

star.chaser wrote: »

Warning from hydrogen peroxide container:

"Avoid inhaling hydrogen peroxide fumes. If inhaled, get to fresh air"

hairdressers use it to bleach hair. it's not oxegen and neither are it's fumes.

Ever tried sniffing pure oxygen for a while? :pac:

Seriously though. Depending on it's percentage of concentration it can be pretty dangerous.

Capt'n Midnight

Apollo 1 all over again

it's not like you can smell/see/taste oxygen which is what H2O2 releases (yes you can smell the peroxide but meh..)





But just how how much / what strength did she have ??
1 liter of 20 volume peroxide would only give off 20L of oxygen ,( about one ounce of it ) , which should not affect the concentration in the volume of the car which is a couple of hundred litres, with continual air through the vents and when you open the doors


If I had to guess I'd say it was the propane propellant in an aerosol / hairspray

Bonito

That's what I've been trying to tell them