Man Tests Lighter At Gas Pump, Learns Lesson The Hard Way

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  1. COMPUABLE

    COMPUABLE First Sergeant

    Man Tests Lighter At Gas Pump, Learns Lesson The Hard Way
    (Click Here to See the Video)
    via huffingtonpost.com
    If you were looking for a sign that all those warnings at the gas pump mean something, well, here's your sign.

    The dunce cap of the day goes to a driver in Australia, who flicked his lighter as he filled his car with gas last week. Turns out the lighter worked!

    Footage captured by a security camera shows flames shoot up and lick the man before spilling onto the concrete below him -- just feet from the pump.

    He flees, leaving everyone else at the station in danger.

    Good Luck! -- COMP
     
  2. gman863

    gman863 MajorGeek

    I saw a guy with a lit cigarette at the self-serve pumps at Kroger a few weeks ago - luckily before I started filling up.

    I hauled a** out of there in record time - the gas station is still intact, but seeing someone that stupid was not a risk I was willing to take to save three cents per gallon with my Shopper's Card.
     
  3. COMPUABLE

    COMPUABLE First Sergeant

    >> I saw a guy with a lit cigarette at the self-serve pumps at Kroger a few weeks ago - luckily before I started filling up. gman863 <<

    The event reminds me of "The Survivors" movie scene (with Walter Matthau and Robin Williams) where Walter and Robin's characters inadvertently cause a HUGE gas station explosion (Click Here: to see the Original Trailer)

    BTW This was a hilarious 'early' Robin Williams movie (from almost 30 years ago, back in 1983) and Matthau plays the excellent sort-of 'straight man and comic foil' to Robin's comedy in the movie.

    Good Luck! -- COMP​
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Local news story:
    Two yokels are having a small bon fire ( during a burn ban ) and place a jar full of gas next to it. They step back and shoot the jar. This starts a grass fire that gets out of control. Thinking they can put it out by driving over it with their Jeep, the Jeep gets hung up on a rock, puncturing their gas tank and you guessed it.......Jeep is a goner. The fire spread to 7 acres before the local fire department got it out. :-D:-D
     
  5. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    All epic FAILS.
     

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