Posted on 02/29/2012 4:16:57 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A 43-year-old man in North Carolina died Tuesday after drinking gasoline and lighting a cigarette, police there say.
Gary Allen Banning of Havelock, N.C., was taken to a local hospital late Monday after police responded to a 911 call from a resident reporting an apartment fire. Banning was transported to the University of North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill where he died early Tuesday. He had suffered severe burns.
According to police, Banning accidentally drank from a salsa jar containing gasoline at a friend's apartment, spitting it out and getting it on his clothes. He later lit the cigarette that ignited his clothes.
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How did he “accidentally” drink from a salsa jar? He nay have misjudged the contents of the jar but he surely did not drink from it by accident.
sounds like a Darwin award nominee to me...
The whole story is BS. There is no way he would not have rinsed his mouth after drinking gasoline.
White lightning in a Salsa jar did him in.
Hmmmm, that’s weird, apparently, my tagline got mangled. I will fix it. It’s supposed to be below average IQ
Dreadful. RIP.
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