Posted on 05/14/2021 12:05:31 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Alcohol caused a car accident — but not in the way you might expect.
A car burst into flames Thursday after a Maryland motorist unwisely used hand sanitizer while smoking. A harrowing video taken from a news chopper shows the vehicle smoldering in a parking lot as firefighters rush to douse the blaze.
“Using hand sanitizer and smoking a cigarette is a bad combo in unventilated areas like a car,” a Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service official told the local ABC affiliate. The crew responded to the freak inferno, which occurred around 5:30 p.m. at the Federal Plaza Shopping Center in Rockland
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Friday always has the best stories.
Not a COVID death — but it could have been.
I saw a guy wearing a face shield thing with a hole drilled in for his cigarette ,LOL
“Just like the Walmart employees I see smoking with a masks around their chin because they worry so much about covid but not the cigarette.”
You obviously have never met a Walmart employee!
He wanted clean hands when he was grabbin that gagger.
Hand sanitizer is about 140 proof (70%) ethanol.
It’ll go up.....
Reason number 11,412 on why you should not buy products from some guy out of the trunk of his car.
Never a good idea. No matter the price.
Well the guy can’t complain. No doubt he has been told. Smoking is bad for your health.
Further proof that stupid people do exist. /s
‘freak inferno’??
only morons would think it’s a freak accident for alcohol to ignite when placed next to an open flame
...and to think that hand ‘sanitizer’ has been TOTALLTY DEBUNKED. Too bad there are so many sheep that people are destroying cars based on that myth.
Well to be fair the driver was likely high on fumes and not thinking straight
I think you may be able to find YouTube videos of people smoking cigarettes while they fill up their gas tanks. Sometimes, regret becomes the main reality. Particularly when you blow your self up. If it can be done wrong, or dangerously, people have a way about finding out how.
Yep.
Two Car B Que stories in one day.
Talk about fake news we know how this country feels about us cigarette smokers!
It’s the open flame that does it. Must’ve lit it while still wet on his thumbs and evaporating.
I assume that this dolt survived. Therefore, he is not eligible for The Darwin Award. Too bad, he would have been a finalist for sure.
If it can be done wrong, or dangerously, people have a way about finding out how.
Kind of like seniors who insist on smoking while they
are on oxygen. It saturates their clothes and up they go.
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