Forget ISIS and teens—the greatest threat facing our everyday lives are bedbugs.

And just acknowledging the word bedbug makes my skin crawl, so I don't know that I could say I wouldn't make the same mistake that a desperate man made this week.

Via the New York Daily News, Scott Kemery was reportedly trying to kill a colony of bedbugs when he dumped a bottle of alcohol out in the backseat of his car.

Apparently satisfied with a job well done, he lit a victory cigarette and, in the process, exploded the whole damn thing.

He was reportedly able to flee the burning car on his own but suffered first- and second-degree burns in the process.

But all's well ends well—pretty safe guess he doesn't have bedbugs anymore!


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