Don’t you have to be dead to win a Darwin Award?
He was pouring gasoline on a fire directly from the can. You are right... Darwin Award!
Fixed it.
Hmmmm ... 80 people sued the company that made the gas cans ... and put it out of business. In addition, Walmart decided to “chip in” $25 MILLION out of their own pockets to settle those claims!
I guess Walmart just decided to throw in $25 Million of their own money ... out of the goodness of their heart ... :-) ...
In order to win the Darwin Award one must become incapable of passing on one’s DNA.
Death, of course, is always a qualifier.
If it has one of those retarded new spouts, I hope he wins 800 million or so, and they have to change the name of the stores to HIS name. I HATE those cans with a passion that’s sinful!
Yes, clearly it’s the fault of Blitz that 80+ stupid people poured extremely volatile gasoline onto or into an open flame source...
Gasoline is intended to be used for one purpose only and that is as a motor fuel for internal combustion engines...Operative word is “internal”...It is unsuitable for ANY other purpose...Fuel pumps have a label warning against other uses...People who fail to heed such warnings are asking to get hurt...
It’s the motor fuel of choice for over 100 years precisely because it is so volatile, and vaporizes so readily thruout a very wide range of atmospheric temperatures, desert to arctic...Flash point of gasoline is as low as -45 degrees F...
Anyone who’s fueled a vehicle on a sunny day and watched the shadow of the pump nozzle has also seen the shadow of the vapor produced when gasoline is dispensed...Somewhere within that vapor plume the gasoline/air mix produced is within the flammable range...Introduce a combustion source and BOOM!
Firefighters regard such individuals as “job security”..
it was a 50 year old company that had 70% of the plastic gas can market. they were driven out of business — targeted by trial lawyer slugs.
STUPID should hurt
stupid SHOULD hurt
stupid should HURT
PSSST!! Hey Slings! Over here!!
Oh, the STUPID! It burns. burns, burns. . .
I have a lot of 5 gallon gas cans and the only ones that I can actually use are two old ones from about 20 years ago. All of the newer ones are so “safe” and do such a great job of preventing air pollution that it’s impossible to empty them, except into a large funnel, which is a pain in the butt.
This is why we can’t have nice things... such as an effin’ simple spout tube that doesn’t have safety triggers and springs and lovers that all don’t work spill gasoline ecerywhere, take 2 people to operate and soak you with gasoline.
One time I pulled up to the gas pumps at a gas station only to look over and see a Darwin contender leaning down pumping gas into a 5 gal. can while smoking a cigarette. I hadn’t turned off the car yet so I put it back in drive and drove to another gas station.
More “pussification” of the male gender at work. My old dad taught me the difference between gasoline, charcoal lighter fluid, and diesel fuel. He explained how to store and handle each and the precautions to take when using them. He always preached “Safety First”.
Never forget, fathers and father figures are important in the lives of young men. Mom never knew the first thing about these subjects, nor did we care, because dad had taught us the manly art of starting a fire safely without burning down the neighborhood.
Aren’t you supposed to pour the gas BEFORE you light the fire? And what prevents things from going ka-boom in the barrel if you light gasoline-soaked fuel in a barrel?