20 February 2008: Putting out the flame

A man in Germany was angry when his girlfriend lit up a cigarette in his home and refused to put it out.

So angry, in fact, that he used the entire contents of a fire extinguisher to put out the cigarette, caking her and the apartment in powder.

A police spokesman said "it looked like a bomb had gone off in there."

It seems he was successful in putting out the cigarette. The flames of passion between them also seem to have been extinguished.