Posted on 08/28/2009 7:26:30 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Woman burned filling gas can
August 28, 2009
SUN-TIMES NEWS GROUP
A 27-year-old Joliet woman suffered second-degree burns after using a cigarette lighter to see how much gas was in the can she was filling.
Police reports say it was about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when the woman drove to the 7-Eleven at 1609 E. Cass St. in Joliet in a yellow 1970 Chevrolet.
"(The woman) was filling up a gas can, which was sitting on the passenger seat of the car. (She) then used a lighter to use as a light to observe how full the can was," police said.
The can ignited from the lighter's flame and the resulting explosion also set the vehicle's interior ablaze.
Apparently fearful the fire could spread to the fuel pump she was using, the victim began to push the burning car.
Firefighters reported the Chevrolet was "approximately five feet from the pumps and fully involved" when they arrived.
The woman was taken to Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet and treated for serious, but non-life-threatening second-degree burns to her right wrist and right thigh.
Reminds me of little Johnny who played one of the wise men in the Christmas pageant. He showed up for the dress rehearsal in a fireman’s hat. When questioned by his teacher, he said, “But you said that they came from afar!”
She didn't die, thus she is disqualified.
Dang, you’re quick! :-)
This will give Illinois dems good reason to force station owners to remove self serve and replace with full serve ONLY like in NJ. This, of course, will close some stations and increase the cost of gas as it did in NJ.
Obviously she needs to sue the oil companies for producing not one but two dangerous products.
I clicked on this article because I thought some weird thing had happened - something you never would have thought of to cause this accident....only to learn she was just a dumbass.
i had thought you meant to say "far,"... i liked it...
Fire... far, it all depends on where you live :)
My dad used to start fars, and he had R in his tires, and the bombers that he worked on dropped bums!
But spell check is my friend, and a close one too, I might add!
And the Darwin Award winner goes to.......
oops, posted about the same response as you.
He probably meant to say FAR. That is a southern drawl way of saying Fire. Poking fun of the hick who set herself on FAR. A friend of mine is from Arkansas, when her mother got angry she would say “That just makes me mad as far Marilyn Rae”
Straight out of an old Three Stooges routine.
Not all Darwinians die. In any case, she should qualify for some STUPID award.
Hookt on Fonics Werks Fur Yoo!
“Forced Fars” here in the Ozarks.
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