Posted on 07/11/2024 7:14:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Gillette 18-year-old who had a bucket of gasoline in a car was burned early Wednesday morning. After gas had sloshed out of the bucket inside the car, a teen lit it on fire thinking it would burn off the spilled gas but not damage the car.
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An 18-year-old man was badly burned after he transported a bucket of old gasoline to a bonfire overnight Tuesday and his friend lit some gas that had spilled from the bucket, police in Gillette, Wyoming, report.
Gillette Police Department officers responded to the intersection of North Burma and West 4th avenues at midnight as Tuesday turned to Wednesday for a report of a vehicle on fire, GPD Deputy Chief Brent Wasson told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday.
There, the officers found an 18-year-old male who’d been burned in the fire.
He was taken to Campbell County Health and was still being treated as of midday Wednesday, Wasson said.
A Bucket Of Gas
The investigation indicates that a 17-year-old male was driving his friends to Northwest Park. The friends included the 18-year-old male, two 17-year-old females and a 20-year-old female, Wasson said.
The 18-year-old male reportedly sat in the car, holding a bucket of old gasoline between his feet as they rode to the park. The teens’ plan was to have a bonfire when they got there, Wasson related from the report.
A bonfire would have been illegal, he noted, because of current fire restrictions.
Some of the gasoline spilled from the bucket and probably on the 18-year-old’s clothing as well, Wasson said.
Once the 17-year-old parked the car, he lit the spilled gasoline on fire, “believing it would burn off the gasoline but preserve the surface of the seat,” said Wasson.
The flames engulfed the Mustang, he added.
The 18-year-old removed his T-shirt and tried to smother the blaze with it, said Wasson. But his shirt caught on fire, causing the burns.
“It appears that the rest of his clothing also ignited,” the deputy chief said, adding that an investigation is underway and police have classified the incident as an arson investigation.
The damage to the car amounted to about $2,500, said Wasson.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
After this Lane Kiffin will recruit him to make the Rebels' offense more explosive.
Darwin Award contender?
It is truly difficult to comprehend the level of stupidity that is being displayed here, not just by the victim, but all the others involved.
Willing to bet weed and/or alcohol was impairing all of them.
Just what we need to hear.
At first I thought it was the Bee. No one could be this stupid.
Darwin Award
They should teach fire safety and gun safety in all high schools.
Why don’t they?
< sigh >
Transporting gasoline in an open-topped container is industrial-grade stupid.
And it went downhill from there.
...hold my beer...
Yes they can!.................
a teen lit it on fire thinking it would burn off the spilled gas but not damage the car.
He’s young and I suspect will have many more Darwin efforts. But this is one of the more impressive, non-fatal, first efforts I’ve seen
Gen Z.........................
If someone isn't stupid already, being young, inexperienced, and on drugs will help make them that way.
Darwin understood the dumb and defective dont get to reproduce which prevents their dumb and defective genes from being passed on. Evolution is brutally efficient.
Well DUH!..... can kids get educated any longer???
In fairness, when he lights his farts, it doesn’t burn his pants.
Time to outlaw gasoline.
Oh yeah, they’re working on that...
In a part of my apartment complex (in the 70s) that had cars parking beneath the second floor apartments a car caught fire and set the apartments on fire, while it was burning I asked the fire investigator what happened and he said a young guy was using his zippo lighter to try and see how much gasoline was in the tank, the investigator had already talked to the guy and told me that he believed the guy really did just that.
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