Silas Whitman was lighting a cigarette when his cow farted
The Kansan
April 26, 2020
NEWTON, Kansas -- Harvey County Sheriff Chad Gay announced his department was called to the scene of an explosion at the Silas Whitman farm Sunday. The farm is located about eight miles west of Newton, just north of US50.
Upon their arrival, deputies found Whitman, 42, with serious burns to his face and chest, and his cow's rear badly burned.
Whitman was able to tell deputies that he was standing behind the cow and decided to light up a cigarette. All he remembered was flicking his lighter.
Deputies determined that the cow farted at the moment Whitman lit up his lighter, thus causing the methane gas to explode.
Whitman was ruched to the Ascension Via Christi St. Francis burn center in Wichita. A veterinarian was called to treat the cow.
Methane is a highly explosive gas. There have been several reports of methane gas explosions during colonoscopies.
CDC director Robert R. Redfield, said he was sending a team to the Wichita hospital to get Whitman's permission for CDC to use him in its "You Can Quit" anti-smoking TV commercials.
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