Ann Arbor house explosion caught on police body cam

It was an accident, according to police, as the 76-year-old man who lived inside a home on the 700 block of 7th Street didn’t have electricity or water and had been using 20-pound propane tanks to heat his home when something ignited the gas.

[@mastermind.det313]

We don't need a war for our houses to blow up.

[@yellowman9941]

Wow

[@kaelhooten8468]

Dude lived in Florida. Not poor, not a victim. He was a cheap boomer who didn’t want to pay his bills, let the utilities lapse (because he barely lived there) and it blew. He’s not a victim, not an elderly person who is impaired. Find a place to live?! He hasn’t lived here for decades. Fake news

[@AmiraLelani]

Thank you for this. I know this guy. He's a massive hoarder as well. There's a lot of serious corruption that happens in Ann Arbor that not too many people know about. Four days ago the temperatures was almost 50 degrees. So what would the propane be needed for?

[@AmiraLelani]

I believe that he did this on purpose for money. Which explains why he was already outside waiting. If he were inside when the explosion took place he would be dead.

[@kaelhooten8468]

@@AmiraLelani no way?!?!? What was he cookin up? He wasn’t blasting wax or something a la 2004 era?!?! What edt: ohhhhhh that makes sense. Very convenient he’d cleared the building just enough to sustain non-life threatening injuries. His hearing is f’ed if he didn’t protect that… maybe look for hearing protection to prove intent.

[@kaelhooten8468]

That makes sense. He was just out enough to sustain minor injury. If he had hearing protection on that would clinch it.

[@kaelhooten8468]

@@AmiraLelani I wonder if they’ve evaluated his hearing damage