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.
When I was still crawling, my parents heard a snap behind the tv...it was me going after cheese in a mousetrap. I don’t remember that episode.
I honestly hope so. Otherwise ...
One day a few years ago I heard glass breaking one night. I looked outside and saw someone breaking into a neighbors house. I called another neighbor for backup and we went to the house.
It turned out to be her derelict son who was high and forgot his house keys, so breaking a window was his best bet.
He also needed a few stitches from glass cuts.
He didn’t learn his lesson. A year or so later something happened to him. I suspect he fried his brain on drugs because he became almost a vegetable.
I used to have a poster in my workplace that said:
There is no such thing as Idiot-Proof. There is only Idiot-Resistant. The ingenuity of idiots knows no bounds.
Gillette, Wyoming? That’s weird. I thought all of the idiots in Wyoming moved to Rawlins.
I don’t even know where to start….😖
boy that headline really stinks
Might explain why so many kids these days don’t bother to get drivers licenses - they literally can’t.
“...engulfed the MUSTANG...”
AAAAHHHHHH!!! Poor pony.
“Willing to bet weed and/or alcohol was impairing all of them.”
I wouldn’t be surprised. But the sad part is, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were just that stupid.
We’re getting stupider and stupider as a society, because there are warning labels on everything. If people don’t know not to put hands and feet under a running lawnmower, they probably shouldn’t have children. I wonder about these kids’ parents...
Not that dumb though.
It’s mind boggling.
😂
I was a scout but still did stupid things at 16. Very fortunate.
It’s hard to believe, but apparently someone WAS this stupid. Must have been vying for the Darwin Award.
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