Brothers celebrate lottery win by blowing up house

Feb 18, 2013, 12:59 pm (60 comments)

Kansas Lottery

Two brothers who were celebrating a $75,000 winning lottery ticket by purchasing marijuana and meth accidentally blew up their house on Friday, said Sgt. Bruce Watts of the Wichita Police Department.

The explosion sent one of the brothers — a 27-year-old — to the hospital, where he remains in serious but stable condition with second-degree burns on his hands, arms and chest.

The other brother was sent to jail, Watts said.

The brothers were in a house in the 100 block of North Nevada Court, near Douglas and West Street, about 7 p.m. Friday, Watts said. One of the brothers went to the kitchen to refuel the butane torches they planned to use to light their bongs. He emptied a couple of large cans of butane lighter fluid, leaking butane into the air.

"The butane vapor reached the pilot light in the furnace, and as you might expect, ka-boom," Watts said.

The victim was wearing a lottery T-shirt during the explosion.

The man's girlfriend loaded him and her kids into a car and drove him to Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis for treatment of second-degree burns to his hands, chest and arms. She sped off and has not been found.

Officers went to the house with a warrant, where the other brother ran out, admitting he had marijuana and methamphetamine. He was arrested.

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Thanks to hearsetrax for the tip.

Wichita Eagle

Comments

LottoPerro

Funny and stupid at the same time.  The title of the story made me LOL, celebrating a lottery win by blowing up a house.

Lucky4Life's avatarLucky4Life

God is having a grand old chuckle on this one.  I can't even hit $2 on powerball last 2 draws and these fools get to blow $75K.  Makes me want to cry and scream at the same time.

KyMystikal's avatarKyMystikal

I don't know why the movie "Half Baked" came to mind?

plumsage's avatarplumsage

and the kicker is now the money is going to have to go to bail, hospital bills (if he doesn't have insurance) and a lawyer if this goes to trial.

maringoman's avatarmaringoman

haha excuse me while I laugh at this one. The two brothers should contact Joseph Taglieri https://www.lotterypost.com/news/234380 and form a club

Ronnie316

I like the "girlfriend seen speeding away" part. Probably the smartest thing she has ever done. I hope she and the kids do well with the remainder of the $75k. lol. lol. lol.

Lucky4Life's avatarLucky4Life

better call Saul! lol

Ronnie316

Quote: Originally posted by maringoman on Feb 18, 2013

haha excuse me while I laugh at this one. The two brothers should contact Joseph Taglieri https://www.lotterypost.com/news/234380 and form a club

I Agree!

Ronnie316

Quote: Originally posted by plumsage on Feb 18, 2013

and the kicker is now the money is going to have to go to bail, hospital bills (if he doesn't have insurance) and a lawyer if this goes to trial.

Hopefully girlfriend and kids got the money.

HoLeeKau's avatarHoLeeKau

Quote: Originally posted by Ronnie316 on Feb 18, 2013

Hopefully girlfriend and kids got the money.

Why???  She had her kids at a house where Darryl and his other brother Darryl were going to be doing drugs.  You telling me she wouldn't have been doing it too if the house hadn't sploded?  Maybe that's why she sped off, because she was already high and didn't want to go to jail.

surimaribo24's avatarsurimaribo24

Now this is the funiest sht ive read for the day ...

rdgrnr's avatarrdgrnr

Sounds like a scene from a Cheech and Chong movie.

surimaribo24's avatarsurimaribo24

Quote: Originally posted by rdgrnr on Feb 18, 2013

Sounds like a scene from a Cheech and Chong movie.

Green laugh

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

How stupid & idiotic, he should have use the money to go too rehab so he could be a good dad to his kids.

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