Okay I fixed a typo, but a more complicated explanation. My friend's old place had a microwave mounted above the oven, and one day the mounting broke and the microwave fell out. In the wall behind it, the gas line fed into the oven, and strapped to that was an electrical outlet. The microwave has been plugged into that outlet. An outlet is supposed to be rigged inside a little box that's connected to conduit which the actual electrical wires are inside of. Instead though, whoever wired the thing didn't do that - they just had some conduit end, capped of the unused wires, wired in a 2-plug outlet, and used metal banding to just strap that onto the gas line. Which is all unsafe AF.

I'm gathering that through sheer incompetence, they rigged a spy movie improvised bomb