Posted on 01/29/2020 11:07:50 AM PST by Red Badger
Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Firefighters in Florida said a hazmat team responded to a gas station where a man filling up his boat confused a fishing pole holder for the gas tank.
Orange County Fire Rescue said the customer at 7-Eleven in Orlando was attempting to fill up his 18-foot boat about 11:35 a.m. Monday when he accidentally pumped 30 gallons of gas directly into the cockpit.
Fire Rescue said the man pumped about $60 worth of fuel into the cockpit and then put another $40 of gas into the actual gas tank.
The hazmat team was able to siphon most of the gas out of the boat and no injuries or evacuations were reported at the station.
Anybody wanna buy a center console cheap? That’s gonna take a while to clean up before it’ll earn a new inspection sticker.
LOL!.............
I filled my '76 300D Mercedes (diesel) with regular gas once. In a hurry. Strange gas station.
Me neither. Then again, I have never owned a boat.
They say a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into.
This guy took it literally...............
Boats depreciate greatly in the first ten years.
Freshwater boats are worth more than used salt water boats.
There is also a big difference in price from a Grady White to other brands.
The outboard motor is where a large amount of money is.
FYI, most people going out on the ocean ALWAYS have two engines. Not just one.
Lastly, they get exponentially more expensive as the length increases. A 26’ boat is probably 2X the price of an 18’ boat.
Pulled up to a gas dock in the Great South Bay of Long Island, NY once back in the 70s. Noticed a heavy gasoline odor and asked the attendant if they’d had a spill. He said No as he re-set the pump and came over to hand us the nozzle. Suddenly a guy on a 28’ Pacemaker in front of us started yelling. It only took a quick glance for my Buddy and I to cast off and get outta Dodge. The idiot was pumping fuel down a rod holder into his bilge.
Owner of the dock came out, shut off the pump, pulled the hose out, cut the Pacemaker’s line and pushed it out into the current.
CG was called and took him in tow about an hour later. Don’t know how it all worked out in the end, but didn’t see any smoke by the time we got to the ramp.
apparently this guy didn’t know much about boats
A floating bomb!....................
We knew what you meant!.............
YUP
That’s why the gas dock owner cut him loose.
Boats being docked, fueled, tied off or baked into storage are a litany of disasters.
Had a slip next to a big public ramp. Neighboring slip owners and my wife and I would sit in our slips as bad weather was due (for example) and watch stupid recovery of boat to trailer accidents fiascos.
For the last ten years I have had a cabin at the Lake of the Ozarks with thousands of power boaters. Fueling deaths every other year, PWC wrecks, drownings, jumps from bridges “for fun”, you name it.
“The Public Works Department used to spread it on the roads to keep the dust down.”
As kids we would follow the spraying tank truck around on our bicycles. The low spots on the road would provide nice spots for the oil to collect and provide spots to easily spin the bike tires. Of course our parents would be upset when we returned home with oil covering our bicycles, shoes, and clothes. Good times from 60+ years ago.
To be fair, ownership of a boat at all is a litany of disasters, or so I’ve seen and been told. :P
After fishing all night on Center Island Reef in LI Sound, my Buddy and I spent many an hour watching the ramp antics at Roosevelt Park, Oyster Bay. The best would be in the afternoon as we waited for the weekend navy to recover their crafts before we launched for a night’s trip.
This guy isn't AOC's boyfriend is he?
Saw a pickemuptruck burning bright at a gas station many moons ago, just before the halogen nozzles activated.
Read the dude was filling plastic gas cans in the bed, which had a plastic bed liner.
Static-sparked when he pulled the nozzle out, nozzle was dripping some residual gas, poof!
ALWAYS fill gas cans on the ground!!’
“They say a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into.”
It’s a place to get expensive fish meat, too!
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