Double Bonus Round: Worker checks for gas leak with match, blows up Bronx public school

DNAinfo.com ^ | 08.21.2015 | Murray Weiss

[ameribbean expat]

THE BRONX — A worker who lit a match to check if gas was coming out of a fuel line in a science classroom sparked the blast that destroyed part of a Bronx school Thursday night, officials suspect.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You wouldn’t believe what goes on down there with the building trades.

Thanks again to the unions.

[knarf]

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Oscar Jimenez, 40, was working at Tibbett Diner nearby when the blast happened. At a press conference held by the Mayor and the Fire Department Jiminez said “My name is Oscar J. Jiminez. But you can call me Jose...”

[wny]

Architects don’t design natural gas systems....

[Thumper1960]

I sure hope it’s not the actual gas. LOL Might go boom.

[Raycpa]

Well, it worked.

[nascarnation]

No it’s been this was for decades without incident. I assume it’s where they inject the stinky.

[W.]

Don't miss the

Big summer blow-out!

[Thumper1960]

Could be. Must be like living near a chicken farm.

[Popman]

——Obviously not someone who works for the gas company, or is a gas certified plumber.——

You don’t have be either...you just need a single molecule of common sense...

[nascarnation]

There’s just a few farm houses in the area within the stinky perimeter, LOL.

[TalBlack]

This worker, what is his uh immigration status?

[Scrambler Bob]

Ravi Shenoy with Shenoy Engineering applied in May to provide gas connections from the basement to the sixth floor science lab, according to Department of Buildings records.

Any H1B’s involved?

[Tucker39]

When visited in the hospital, he said, “See? I told them there was a leak. I showed them right where it was.” But since he said it in Spanish, nobody understood him.

[LaRueLaDue]

I used to work at a refinery that had a chemical plant adjacent that made mercaptans. My office was in the chemical plant office building. It was pretty amazing how bad that can smell when they are loading the railcars. And they have all sorts of controls on the loading, etc. to keep the leakage of the chemicals to near nil. Very strong chemicals, mercaptans. I don’t think I would want to be around if there was a leak of them, anywhere... But, unbelievably, you do get “used to it” to a certain extent. We kept apples in our cars, as they would absorb the smell...

[nascarnation]

I worked in a plant that was full of automatic transmission fluid. Every night upon coming home my wife would have me put my work clothes right into the washer.

[MeshugeMikey]

"I do believe that this was a mistake," Mayor Bill de Blasio told 1010 WINS Friday afternoon. "It does not appear that was something that should have bee done."

whata GENIUS!!!

de Blasio for President!!

[left that other site]

Even I, a little old widow lady biker bass-player, know that one checks for gas leaks with DISH SOAP, not a MATCH!

[COBOL2Java]

Yeah. It’s called mercaptan. It stinks and it’ll burn your eyes in high concentration. if it gets that bad, run like Hell.

And if it's dark, use a flashlight. If you don't have a flashlight, just take out your Bic lighter and...oh wait.

[Noumenon]

It was an earth shattering KABOOM!