Posted on 08/29/2009 8:27:29 AM PDT by lex33
August 29, 2009
A Joliet woman suffered second-degree burns Tuesday night after she used a cigarette lighter to help her see how much gas was in a can she was been filling.
The incident happened at a 7-Eleven gas station at 1609 E. Cass about 10:30 p.m., police said.
The 27-year-old woman "was filling up a gas can, which was sitting on the passenger seat of the car. [She] then used a lighter to . . . observe how full the can was," police said.
The flame ignited the gas, and the can exploded, setting the car's interior aflame.
Apparently afraid that the fire would spread to the gas pump she had been using, the woman began to push the burning car.
The car was about five feet from the gas pumps and engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
The woman was treated at the scene for second-degree burns to her right wrist and right thigh before being taken to Silver Cross Hospital. Her injuries were serious but not life-threatening.
Herald News
Here’s your sign................
She didn’t watch enough Yosemite Sam cartoons in her youth.
I do hope that charges will be laid.
What are the chances alcohol was involved?
Religious experiment gone awry,
Darwin Temple priestess.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The fuel is more volatile, and the flames are invisible. You could be on fire and not even know it.The risk is more in the 'mild' (blowout) explosion category, speaking as one, who, uh, had a a minor no-harm (but scary) accident while charging lead-acid batteries a long, long time ago (as a kid; trying to collect hydrogen over water as the batteries boiled) ...
Geez - I hate when that happens ...
I stopped to pump gas today and the idiot across the way was leaning against his car filling his tank with a lit cigarette in hand.
I just didn’t know what to say.
You didn’t expect her to lift it out of the back seat. We can only hope it was a Prius.
Pray for America
That was good. I haven't laughed so much in a quite some time.
A major candidate for the Darwin Awards.
Stupid checks 1, 2, and 3 are indictments that she is a lib. It also helps that she lives in Chicago.
“She didn’t watch enough Yosemite Sam cartoons in her youth.”
Or, maybe she did, and determined them to be worth emulating.
They also tend to make a more satisfying bang when the flames reach the ultra-dense fuel tank... less mess to clean up afterward also.
Second city tv was funny so was the Red Green show a quote of note from Red green Were pulling for ya.
I just want to know if her Obama Biden bumper sticker was burned off...............
**Her injuries were serious but not life-threatening.**
makes this one an Honorable Mention or RUNNERUP for a Darwin Award, for a Darwin award the Recipient must remove themselves from the GENE POOL.. LOL
This has ACORN member/Obama Voter ...written ALL over it.
**“She didn’t watch enough Yosemite Sam cartoons in her youth.”**
She probably didn’t see any 3 Stooges, either...
Many of BOTH have been Removed from airplay, as some people are just TOO STUPID to appreciate the HUMOR.
AND THESE PEOPLE VOTE ... God help us all.
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