Woman uses lighter to check gas can level, blows up car

[NHSparky]

Woman uses lighter to check gas can level, blows up car

August 29, 2009
(c) Chicago Sun-Times
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SURPRISINGLY, NOT FLORI-DUH

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A Joliet woman suffered second-degree burns Tuesday night after she used a cigarette lighter to help her see how much gas was in a can she was been filling.

The incident happened at a 7-Eleven gas station at 1609 E. Cass about 10:30 p.m., police said.

The 27-year-old woman "was filling up a gas can, which was sitting on the passenger seat of the car. [She] then used a lighter to . . . observe how full the can was," police said.

The flame ignited the gas, and the can exploded, setting the car's interior aflame.

Apparently afraid that the fire would spread to the gas pump she had been using, the woman began to push the burning car.

The car was about five feet from the gas pumps and engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.

The woman was treated at the scene for second-degree burns to her right wrist and right thigh before being taken to Silver Cross Hospital. Her injuries were serious but not life-threatening.

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Okay, the obligatory questions:

--Has she created children, and has she been medically prevented from creating any/any more?

--What's her DU name?

--What're the odds of her having voted for HopeyMcChangesnorter the previous November?

--Did she buy a lottery ticket after being lucky enough to survive all that self-induced stupid?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[jinxmchue]

More proof that common sense hasn't been taught in schools for a long time.

[NHSparky]

It goes well beyond that.  No, one doesn't learn common sense--one either has it, or they don't.  However, given gas pumps have pretty much the same warnings and labels anywhere you go, I'm pretty sure there was that one that tells you, "NO SMOKING OR OPEN FLAMES" in pretty big bold red lettering right next to the one telling you not to fill up your gas cans except by taking them out of your vehicle and setting them down on the ground.

And on that note, I'm going to need to fill up my gas cans pretty quickly.  Running out of gas to run the generator, snow blower, and lawn mower, so I'll have to have plenty on hand when winter comes.  Thankfully, I've got 20 gallons worth of gas cans.  Given that I only mow my lawn once every two weeks at most, and the fact they're calling for record snowfall this winter (thanks, Farmer's Almanac!), I get the feeling I'll be needing it as much as last winter when I ran the generator for six days during the ice storm.

[DumbAss Tanker]

One of our Democrats is missing.

[BlueStateSaint]

One of our Democrats is missing.

 

My wife just warned me about volume, as our daughter is still napping . . . 

[Airwolf]

Almost a Darwin Award nominee

[thundley4]

More proof that common sense hasn't been taught in schools for a long time.

Everyone knows that if you're checking the level with a lighter, to take the can out of the passenger seat, first.