Parents Dump Gas on Wet Baseball Field to 'Dry' It Out, $50K in Damage and No Game

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/ ^ | 4/9/19 | Staff

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...and these ‘parents’ are going to be voting in the next Presidential election. They probably love the Democrat Klown Kar.

[rlmorel]

No wonder they don't let people own guns in that state!

This did have the feeling of the famous Exploding Whale

It seemed like a good idea until chunks of rotting, stinking blubber the size of men began raining down on them!

[a fool in paradise]

I've heard that it works to get rid of spiders in your basement.... < /sarcasm >

[bramps]

Can’t believe it wasn’t Florida.

[Nailbiter]

hold my beer

[fungoking]

In high school, we were the visiting team at Fulton, Mo and this is how they dried out their dirt infield.

Our warm-up in the outfield consisted of seeing who could “accidentally” over throw a ball so it would catch fire.

Then we played our double header.

[gov_bean_ counter]

And you wonder why we can’t have nice things????

[Tammy8]

And a coach did the same thing in Utah, I am wondering if this was put in a “Life Hack” video on social media or what?

https://www.fox23.com/amp/news/trending-now/fuelish-error-by-utah-coach-closes-down-baseball-field/937246896

[TigersEye]

I hope they at least had enough brain cells to get the kids of the field before they lit it up.
(no sarcasm tag inserted here)

[sparklite2]

How to dry a waterlogged ball field.

[Cobra64]

Jerks. Gasoline is a defoliant. (See tagline)

[Karl Spooner]

You realize that after doing that, the field will need a complete HAZMAT inspection per EPA regulations before it can be used for human activity again, right?

Yup, probably will cost millions to clean up.

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[Delta 21]

Prolly like trying to convince a thousand meskins its a bad idea to carry 5 gallon buckets of gas away from the pipe leak where gas is pooling on the ground and your shoes and pants are soaked with gas/mud and, um, hey can I bum a light???

[mrsmith]

High School parent: “Hold my beer.”
Other High School parent “ No, here. You hold my beer.”

[Terry Mross]

A hundred and twenty “adults” and not one smart enough to ask “Is everyone here sure this will work?”

[Ezekiel]

A baseball field in Connecticut is in shambles after 25 gallons of gas were dumped on a wet infield and set on fire in order to dry it out.

Sad that they didn't have enough fans.

[Buttons12]

This happened in Connecticut? No way. Maryland, surely. Or at least Minnesota.

[Intolerant in NJ]

And these people get to vote.....

[Jeff Chandler]

25 GALLONS?!!!!!!

[an amused spectator]

Sounds really crazy to me but I read several posts on social media today that claimed that was a method regularly used to dry baseball fields in the past.

Apparently it has been a "thing" in various places in the past.

Fast-forward to now - if the state enviro-nannies find out about ANY kind of petroleum product "spill", you're done.

They have to justify their existence, with your checkbook...

The fact that these Blue State buffoons didn't know that little reality is hilarious.