Posted on 01/18/2019 9:02:30 PM PST by BenLurkin
They must have learned from the nigerians who have experienced similar fates.
WTF were they thinking about as they were standing next to a High Pressure pipeline spewing GASOLINE 50 feet in the Air??
You can’t fix Stupid!!
Hay dos tipos de mexicanos allí...regulares y extra crujientes.
You can’t fix stupid.
Years ago there was a FReeper that said smoking around gasoline (he was a smoker) was safe and that one could even extinquish a cigarette in a bucket of gasoline.
He was challenged to try it and get back to us.
He had not posted since.
” and that one could even extinquish a cigarette in a bucket of gasoline”
It is possible to ignite a pool of gasoline using only a cigarette.
partly plausible
“A cigarette has the potential to light a pool of gasoline but just doesn’t have enough sustained heat. Gas ignites between 500 °F and 540 °F, the cigarette at its hottest was between 450 °F and 500 °F but only when it was actually being smoked. An ignition is very improbable.”
LiveLeak Cigarette igniting Gasoline Mythbust Challenge...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RbjLMFBOpY
Yet anyone with any IQ could see that what happened here was an extreme probability considering how many people were involved. Some one probably lit a lighter or caused a hot spark somehow.
A smoker will not be without his lighter.
Liquid gasoline will not burn. But the gasoline in the video was highly aerialized and easily ignited.
Sad.
Had a supervisor blown off a pump truck while we were pumping live oil on a location.
We always kept our distance from him, knowing he would the point of ignition.
Who is talking about Natural Gas here?
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