Hey man, don't ask me, I just report the news, I don't make it:

A cup of coffee nearly cost a Twin Cities family the biggest investment most people will ever make: their home.

It is only fitting a story about something so destructive, one that sounds cooked up, would take place in a kitchen.

"I was in shock, I didn't know what to think," Ron Greenberg said.

Understandable, considering a cup of coffee forever changed Greenberg's morning routine.

"That's what I was doing here, is holding onto the thermos here, by the handle, twisting this, when the thermos broke away, the handle broke away from the thermos and it started shooting black stuff out there," Greenberg said.

Greenberg's two-year-old breakproof Stanley thermos broke.

"It was like a smoke bomb going off," Greenberg remembered. "It filled up the whole kitchen and the whole living room with a cloud of black smoke."

I mean, where do you start?