Lock her up!
Posted on 05/12/2017 7:57:03 AM PDT by Morgana
TUNKHANNOCK — A woman accused of dousing someone with gasoline during a fight at a gas station in Wyoming County has been sent to prison.
Kimberly Brinton was sentenced to two to six years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to risking a catastrophe and drug charges from a separate incident.
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Lock her up!
She was smoking by the gas pump, you look in her eyes and wonder what was she smoking?
But what about her intent??
Based on the Hillary Clinton standard, you have to demonstrate intent to do harm. Couldn’t this woman say she didn’t intend to douse someone with gas , then legally there’s her excuse, not unlike how Hillary has skated due to lack of evidence of her intent to break laws???
She’s about a 3 hot and a 10+ crazy ...
Worse than that is are the smokers at the scenes of car accidents.
When the accident happens, people light up. I have no clue why, but they do. Then people driving by and running up sometimes have cigarettes, then sometimes tow truck operators show up and light up too.
Car wrecks are nothing but powder kegs of smokers igniting things.
Typical Steelers fan.
Also, the story and the timeline, along with that picture, actually makes this a funny story !
She has good teeth.
OK ... maybe a 4. But she’s still WAY into the No Go Zone.
Blows the Hot vs Crazy scale out of the water.
LOL, completely at the wrong end of the spectrum, in the “No Go” area!
Her boss comes running out screaming to put it out.
The employee said "Sorry, I forgot."
Forgot? Just how do you forget that?
I’m a little surprised they gave her 2 to 6 years jail time. The two women didn’t hit each other and Donovan threw water on Brinton before Brinton tried to pump gas on Donovan. I know pumping gas on someone is bad but there doesn’t seem to be evidence that she did it in order to set Donovan on fire. It seems more like a stupid, unthinking reaction to having Donovan throw water at her.
I am reading a great book called “The Aviators” about Eddie Rickenbacker, Charles Lindbergh, and Jimmy Doolittle.
I didn’t know a lot about Rickenbacker(I knew he was our leading ace of WWI, a race driver, saved the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and was the head of Eastern, but man, he was one tough bird, I mean, knarly and nasty tough.
When he was the head of Eastern Airlines in the winter of February 1941, he was flying to Atlanta in a DC-3 (to do an inspection) which crashed in fog on the approach (hit some trees). The pilot, in his last act before the nose plowed in and buried both him and the copilot in the ground killing them, was to shut off the gas pumps.
Rickenbacker was pinned in the wreckage from 11:30 PM until probably around 10 AM the next morning, and was pinned in the wreckage with his face and torso crushed against the back of the corpse of the navigator the entire time..
He suffered a dented skull, other head injuries, shattered left elbow and crushed nerve, paralyzed left hand, several broken ribs, a crushed hip socket, twice-broken pelvis, severed nerve in his left hip, and a broken left knee. Most shocking, his left eyeball was expelled from the socket. His displaced eye happened when he tried to free himself by wiggling, hearing his broken ribs that had the shattered ends protruding from his torso snapping and popping, breaking more as he tried, and when he gave one heave with his head, he impaled his eye socket on a sharp piece of wreckage in the dark that he didn’t see, and poked out his eye.
While he was trapped, he heard some survivors outside the plane who were discussing lighting a bonfire to stay warm, and he had to scream (as best he could) not to light a fire, because there was gas everywhere and he would have been immolated.
But he didn’t die. Searchers eventually found the plane around 6:30 AM and had to cut him out of the plane. They hauled him out to the road, and they were loading dead bodies into the ambulance and drove away. When he asked why, he was told the state paid an ambulance $20 to haul a corpse, but only $10 to haul a living patient.
This happened in February 1941, and it took him nearly a year to get back on his feet. In October 1942, working for the government, just barely recovered, he was sent to the Pacific as a consultant to give pep talks to the military personnel, whose morale was very low, and their performance was suffering.
The B-17 he was in ran out of fuel, had to ditch, and he and a bunch of others survived adrift for 24 days, nearly starving and dying of thirst. One man died of his injuries in the raft.
His will to live was so strong, he would not let anyone else die (his force of character was that strong) that the others adrift with him grew to hate him so much they wanted to live just to spite him. One guy tried to commit suicide by going over the side, and Rickenbacker hauled him back in and tongue lashed him so severely with so much foul language that years later, survivors couldn’t bring themselves to repeat the words he used on the guy who he saved.
Man. What a damned tough guy. They just couldn’t kill him.
She had a drug prior. Plus the gas situation was very serious.
I don’t smoke, and would Never do so anywhere near gasoline.
However, I’ve had Lucky car mechanics adamantly tell me a cigarette can’t cause a gasoline fire ‘cuz it burned at a lower ignition temp point than gas.
Look at what Myth busters found:
MythBusters Special 7: Hollywood on Trial
http://mythresults.com/special7
It is possible to ignite a pool of gasoline using only a cigarette.
*Partly plausible -
A cigarette has the potential to light a pool of gasoline but just doesn’t have enough sustained heat. Gas ignites between 500 °F and 540 °F, the cigarette at its hottest was between 450 °F and 500 °F but only when it was actually being smoked. An ignition is very improbable.
I recently came upon a wreck where the two vehicles ended up 3/4 mile apart because one fled the scene even though the airbags had been deployed and one wheel came off at the scene of the crash.
Seems like the ignition should be disabled if the wreck is bad enough to deploy the airbags, but I'm the cautious type.
Sometimes you have to get away.
In my youth, I loved to watch my neighbor light his grill. He would douse the charcoal in gasoline...wait a minute for the fumes to build...and then THROW a lit match at the grill. It would flare up in a large ball of fire.
And I'm pretty sure that just about anything that is 'on fire' will ignite gas...you throw anything burning near evaporating gas, its going to ignite.
A cigarette, however, isn't typically burning with a flame. So, it normally wouldn't ignite gas.
So, why is it a bad idea to light up near gas?
1. That lighter people use to light the cigarette...well that is certainly a flame.
2. If a 'cherry' from a cigarette falls off, it gets very red on the way down, as its descent is the same as fanning it with wind...and when it hits, small sparks fly around. I would not bet my complexion that those sparks wouldn't light gasoline.
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