a workman from eastern indiana gas and electric had come the week before and had sucked all the gas back into his truck , and he would have sworn you could have crawled right inside one of those tanks and lit up a cigarette , but they exploded anyway - they exploded at the exact moment the windows of the oatley tap were exploding out into the street ( along with a number of patrons wearing denim shirts and boots ... and elmira rescue units hauled em away ) .