[KeyLargo]

[FourPeas]

How long before the call for additional government regulations?

[ClearCase_guy]

[Outlaw Woman]

And the ‘winner’ of this year’s Darwin Award is:

[SIDENET]

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.

"You can't fix stupid."

-Ron White

[JrsyJack]

"(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.

I am surprised she didn't try using the gasoline in the can to put the fire out.

[Constitution Day]

Firefighters reported the Chevrolet was "approximately five feet from the pumps and fully involved" when they arrived.

Poor old Chevy. I hope they can fix it.

[SIDENET]

the victim began to push the burning car.

This is known as: "compounding the fail".

[dog breath]

I hope the poor woman is not in too much pain, thats a very high price for being stupid.

[Loyal Buckeye]

As mayor, Ralph Perk became the subject of national ridicule on October 16, 1972, when he accidentally set his hair on fire while he attempted to use a welder’s torch for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a convention in Cleveland [1]

[Smokin' Joe]

"(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.

Incredibly dumb. "Gimme a match, I think my gas tank is empty..." was a joke when we were kids.

The can ignited from the lighter's flame and the resulting explosion also set the vehicle's interior ablaze.

Nope, the gasoline vapors ignited, which is why she got in trouble to begin with...

Apparently fearful the fire could spread to the fuel pump she was using, the victim began to push the burning car.

Either a brave and selfless act or derived of fear of liability, but either way an act of repentance.

I pray she heals quickly and well and learns from her pain...

[GeronL]

Darwin nominees must stop themselves from breeding

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Publik skool anyone?

[Daffynition]

[albie]

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.

[skully]

bets she was an Obama voter??

[cripplecreek]

Obviously she needs to sue the oil companies for producing not one but two dangerous products.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

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.

[BornToBeAmerican]

And the Darwin Award winner goes to.......

[mbs6]

Straight out of an old Three Stooges routine.

[OneWingedShark]

...what a dumb-ass.
How could she have made it 27 years w/o killing herself?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Chicago democrat?