# Exploding diaper

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-diaper/25912>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 17, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-diaper/25912 "2000-07-17T23:39:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-diaper/25912/1 "2000-07-17T23:39:59Z")

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I have the news on in the background. They said, “This sounds like an urban legend, but…”

It seems someone in Texas left a full diaper sealed up in a plastic bag in the hot Texas sun for several _days_. As the contents decomposed, flammable gasses built up and spontaneously ignited causeing $3,000 damage to the house.

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**Author:** ![rundogrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-diaper/25912/2 "2000-07-18T00:57:22Z")

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That’s what you get for feeding chili to a baby.

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**Author:** ![BigJoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BigJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigJoe)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-diaper/25912/3 "2000-07-18T01:00:22Z")

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Ummmmm…?

So “Shit Sometimes Explodes”?

LOL

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-diaper/25912/4 "2000-07-18T01:00:27Z")

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Hahahahaha. I like that one almost as much as the one about the woman who killed herself (on purpose) by downing a ton of mexican food and then a box of baking soda, the resulting rreaction causing her gut to explode.

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-diaper/25912/5 "2000-07-18T01:03:46Z")

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Gee when I saw this thread, I thought you’d been at my house this morning, when the youngest child in the Ellen clan couldn’t contain himself in just one diaper. The things we moms must do.