Around the World: Germany

Thaw effort blows up car

A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood. "He burned the vehicle out completely," said police in the western city of Hildesheim. The man left the heater on next to the frozen windshield washer tank and returned indoors. Shortly afterwards he heard two explosions and returned to find the car ablaze.