The alleged dryer...
If a gunman is caught by police, the news story would call him an 'alleged' shooter until he had his day in court with formal charges. If the gunman had been caught on video, the story would be the same... alleged.This morning I saw a story on Yahoo News UK about a tumble dryer that caused a huge explosion that blew the entire gable wall off a house. No eyewitness, but the neighbors claim the blast was caused by the clothes dryer, though the Fire Chief states the cause of the blast was not established.
If so... the culprit was an alleged dryer. Get it right Yahoo News UK... it was alleged the cause of the explosion was caused by a dryer.
I saw the photos of the site and believe there is something suspicious about the way the entire wall was torn from the building. To think it was a dryer that caused such a blast. Hmmm... If it was a gas dryer, perhaps a leak from a pipe and a spark from the motor, blasting the wall in the laundry room. That's my opinion, at least right now it is.
I did a job on a 100 year old hotel renovation. It was near the beach and the foundation was made with pilings into the sand. A crane accidentally struck a wall made with 2 layers of brick (and no inner steel reinforcement) and the side of the building collapsed. The hotel was in a historic registry and the wall had to be rebuilt using as many of the original bricks as possible. Alleged bricks, that is...
Something suspicious about they way the wall was pulled off the building.
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It may not be the CAUSE of the explosion, but it nonetheless was a dryer.
So, the term is alleged cause, not alleged dryer (nor alleged brick).
Alternatively, one could correctly say, the cause was allegedly the dryer
(indicating that someone put forth the theory that the source of the explosion was the dryer). Otherwise, it is not an alleged dryer (unless it was never proven to dry clothes).
Not that I know anything about pulling walls of buildings, but I have a reasonable handle on timelines.
Get your alleged facts straight Chat
I would expect to see more disarray, but physics isn't always intuitive.
It's very funny, and some scheme for insurance most probably...