Ka-BOOM!

I'm just glad I wasn't there... So I opened the rear hatch on the station wagon to load the groceries. *huh!?!* Spare tire cover's on the other side of the car, torn up. Look at donut spare. Yup. Glad I wasn't in the car when it decided to spontaneously KaBOOM! Totally wasted. I guess it was hot in there, huh? Funny thing: it had to have really shaken the car, cos the safety cutoff switch for the fuel pump had kicked in. Found that out when I tried to start the thing and... nothing. Noticed I couldn't hear the fuel pump (usually quite loud on this car), so went back and tripped the switch. But really: yeh, I've been saying bad things about donut tires, but did it have to go all "Katie Kaboom" (Animaniacs) on me?