If it wasn't tragic, It would be funny

SuperDave

In Palm Bay Florida Last evening a man tried to syphon gasoline from his car in a closed garage with a SHOP VACUME! Palm Bay florida, June 9,2013. He is suffering burns over 60% of his body. Hard to believe..!!!

J Spencer

That's tragic, but comes under the comedian Bill Ingvall's routine " HERE'S YOUR SIGN"

Chris Smith

That reminds me of the guy who washed his shop uniforms in gasoline before the normal wash and dry at the laundry mat. Can you guess what happend when they went in the gas dryer?

hudsontech

There's a special award for these folks - the Darwin Award. But to be honest I led a charmed live - probably most old car nuts my age can relate to the using gasoline to clean everything from carbys to our hands. Tho, I used to wash the dishes for my wife - real great for removing the grease out of your hands.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

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If you're going to be dumb, you're got to be tough.

37 CTS

I know someone who used a lighter to work on a flamible weed killer plastic sprayer nozel, inside his house. Nearly burned the house and months in the hospital. Also know of another guy using a shop vac to clean spilled gasolene in a car. That did not turn out well.

54SuperWasp

I guy I know had his RV on a camp ground. When he woke up in the morning and took a walk around, he noticed there was a big plastic gas tank, a rubber hose, and that someone had vomited just nearby. Obviously that person had tried to syphon the gas tank. But what he did not know, is that the RV had two gas tanks, but one of them had been modified into a septic tank...Michel

SuperDave

The Rest of the Story...........................This mornings newspaper (Florida Today) reports that The Fire Marshal said ....You won't believe this.... "It probably wouldn't have happened if the garage door had been open"..

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I once had a mechanic refer to my spark plugs as "sparkle plugs". Needless to say I got out of there ASAP before he started working on anything.

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Michel, That is one ugly mental picture eeyew.

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I remember back in my days people would light a match to see how much gas they still had in their tank. They never found out. Those were the cars of the 30's with the tank at the rear of the car. My father always told me, use a stick to measure. Walt.

ratlee2

This story reminds me of the guy at work who put hand sanitizer on his hands and then lit his cigarette. As you can imagine he caught himself on fire. We all got safety training because of that dumba**.

RL Chilton

Walt-
An interesting side note on the match over the gas tank trick: My brother, who used to work at a service station when he was younger, once took me over to where the plates are in the ground that cover the hole where they fill up the gas tanks. He flipped one open and told me to look down the hole. As I bent over to peer down the dark hole, he drops a lighted match down the shaft. I, of course, just about had a heart attack. Meanwhile, the match goes out as there is not enough oxygen for anything to happen. Whilst catching my breath, he smacks me on the back and remarks, "Cool, huh?"

hudsontech

Another story that came out ok but could have had a really tragic ending. Couple towns over from Groton, CT, where I was attending a Coast Guard school a lady in a trailer was washing her nylons in a pan of gasoline. The resulting explosion blew out both side walls of the trailer - she did, however survive the blast, tho sevearly injured. So if you wife askts you to wash her nylons in gasoline - check your life insurance policy first.

Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN