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.
OK. Getting burned isn't funny, but that was royally stupid.
What? You’ve never filled gas into your car with a lit cigarette in your fingers?
Unsafe and Insane
2003 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
(2003, Australia) Parents often warn that firecrackers can blow your hand off, but as a 26-year-old Australian learned, they can also remove your gonads from the gene pool. An ambulance rushed to an Illawarra park after receiving reports that a man was hemorrhaging from his behind. The mercifully unidentified man had placed a lit firecracker between the cheeks of his buttocks, stumbled, and fell upon it.
“We do caution people against these acts,” said Acting Senior Sergeant John Klepczarek of the local police.
Emergency surgeon Dr. McCurdie said the resulting wound looked like “a war injury.” The explosion was forced upward, “blasted a great hole in the pelvis, ruptured the urethra, and injured muscles,” rendering the man incontinent as well as sexually dysfunctional. He survived to tell the tale, making him eligible for the dubious honor of a Living Darwin Award.
Darwin notes: The title is a play on words, “Safe and Sane” is a brand of legal firework; insane people cannot actually win Darwin Awards (rules) and this winner doesn’t show any signs of insanity.
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2003-19.html
FAIL
Can you say “DUH”? I knew you could. :)
Did he win?
A picture is worth a thousand blonde jokes.
The 12 inch "Old Man"
Comes with his major award - the Leg Lamp!!!
The "Old Man's" phrases include:
"It's a MajorAward!"
"Fra-gee-lay! Must be Italian"
"It's a clinker!!!! That blastedstupid furnace dadgummit!!!" 
Doesn’t matter, see the rules below:
Reproduction = Out of the gene pool: dead or sterile.
Excellence = Astounding misapplication of judgment.
Self-Selection = Cause one’s own demise.
Maturity = Capable of sound judgment.
Veracity = The event must be true.
http://www.darwinawards.com/rules/
Outlaw woman was right and you were wrong. As you posted to her, “You made a simple error.” Well, YOU made a simple error, why did you assume it would be easy for her to admit when you seem to be unable to do so?
That is a horrible graphic!
If not government regulations, at LEAST warning labels on gas cans and lighters. snort*
My Bonnie looked into the gas tank
The fill of its contents to see
I lighted a match to assist her
Oh bring back my Bonnie to me.......
Actually, I originally got it from FR, it has been used quite frequently here, mainly on Zot threads.
When I was younger, I remember some twins throwing lit matches into the filler of their dad’s service station. Luckily, the underground tank had just been filled and there was not enough oxygen inside the filler tube to ignite.
Our JETSKI wouldn’t run last year because we had a fuel leak and the hull was too rich. It tried, but stalled like the choke was closed. No oxygen, no fire.
Apparently it’s not a joke.
You think she would like to have a “Do Over”?
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