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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German oil delivery man who got his addresses mixed up accidentally pumped 3,000 litres (5,280 pints) of heating oil straight into a house's basement, police in the western town of Marburg say.
The mishap happened when the man attached the pump to a disused pipe at the front of the house next to the one he was supposed to deliver to.
He then pumped enough heating oil to fill around 30 bathtubs down the sawn-off pipe, completely flooding the owners' basement and ruining their belongings, before spotting his mistake and alerting police.
"The house's front door is very close to that of the neighbour's, and the filler neck flap was just to the side of the door -- unfortunately it was defunct and belonged to the wrong house," Marburg police spokesman Martin Ahlich said on Wednesday.
Fire services succeeded in pumping out 2,000 litres of the oily mess but a substantial amount got into the sewers and water authorities had to be called in to prevent environmental damage, police said.
"The man said he'd been delivering oil for 15 years, but he didn't think he'd been there before," Ahlich said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German oil delivery man who got his addresses mixed up accidentally pumped 3,000 litres (5,280 pints) of heating oil straight into a house's basement, police in the western town of Marburg say.
The mishap happened when the man attached the pump to a disused pipe at the front of the house next to the one he was supposed to deliver to.
He then pumped enough heating oil to fill around 30 bathtubs down the sawn-off pipe, completely flooding the owners' basement and ruining their belongings, before spotting his mistake and alerting police.
"The house's front door is very close to that of the neighbour's, and the filler neck flap was just to the side of the door -- unfortunately it was defunct and belonged to the wrong house," Marburg police spokesman Martin Ahlich said on Wednesday.
Fire services succeeded in pumping out 2,000 litres of the oily mess but a substantial amount got into the sewers and water authorities had to be called in to prevent environmental damage, police said.
"The man said he'd been delivering oil for 15 years, but he didn't think he'd been there before," Ahlich said.
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