When exactly does carrying an explosive gas in a child’s balloon sound like a good idea? I actually surprised by how lucky they were. The really funny part I thought though was that the police found them sitting at home as if nothing was wrong. Your car blows up and you just go home?

TheDenverChannel.com – News – Strange-Looking Car Leads To Explosives Charges

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office found a suspicious-looking car Sunday afternoon behind the old Duggan’s gas station in the 4500 block of South Santa Fe Drive frontage road. Passersby had called in to report some type of explosion or car accident.

When a deputy arrived to check it out, he found a white car that showed obvious signs of an explosion. All the windows were blown out, the vehicle doors were bent towards the outside and the roof was pushed about a foot higher than normal.

The deputy traced the license plate to a home in the 3600 block of South Grove Street in Sheridan. Sheridan officers talked to the people inside and a man and a woman admitted that they were in the car.

Deputies called in an ambulance, who took the couple to Swedish Medical Center for possible shrapnel wounds and broken eardrums.

H/T from Notes from the the Technology Underground by way of Boing Boing and Gizmodo.