Stop that right now! We'll be in a friendly port before you know it
and there won't be a clunker in the bunch. ;o)
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.
...what a dumb-ass.
How could she have made it 27 years w/o killing herself?
Plenty of Honorable Mentions in Darwin Award. Sheesh...
Check it out for yourself
Chicago democrat?
LOL!!
Why should I check it out? Find me a “winner” (your word) who didn’t die. What’s gotten you into a twist. You made a simple error.
Nope, it's a clinker. Trade it in, NOW!
LOL.
Am I the only one who’s sick to death of the word CLUNKER?
And the new Honarable Mention of Darwin: 1rudeboy
Ah, but mine was a play on words.
You remember the old coal burning furnaces?
You used to get small cinders out of them but the big pieces were "clinkers" because that was the sound they made when they struck each other. "Clink"
I guess I'm dating myself.
Sorry, I don’t remember those! I’ve heard the term before, though. :)
Living here in the South, I don’t think even my older relatives had many coal furnaces! Perhaps it is a regional thing?
Remember burning coke rather than coal? Now THAT’s old... :-)
The trial lawyers are already gathering. Who to sue? The lighter manufacturer? The gas company? The can manufacturer? The gas station owner? The car manufacturer? Bush? God?
After the first 8 times this happened to me i realized that i should start using a flashlight...
Aww . . . have a tissue, little girl.
Old Aggie joke:
A sorority is hosting a Halloween party in SingSing on the Brazos—er, I mean, College Station.
The head Coed answers to door to a trio of Aggies, dressed in long white robes, but covered from head to toe in soot, and dragging a giant hose behind them.
“Mahh gracious! Who’re y’all s’pposed to be?!”
“Whah, Maam, we’re Three Wahs Men who’ve just come from a Far.”
Did you lose the Isuzu?
Ban fire now.
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