Lighting a match while your friend is pumping gas.

[amdforever2]

Originally posted by: Eli
WTF? I don't get it.. Why are there flames all over the ground? Did the other dude dump gas all over the place before his "friend" lit the match?

Residue.

Years of drips/drops of gasoline accumulating on the ground.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: Eli
WTF? I don't get it.. Why are there flames all over the ground? Did the other dude dump gas all over the place before his "friend" lit the match?

Gasoline actually isn't flammable. Gasoline fumes, however, are extremely flammable. So, the idiot who lit the match ignited all of the gas fumes around him, but left the rest of the passengers unhurt.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
On a related note, you can see the guy that lit the match running around on fire in the CC cameras, where was he going? Heading for the carwash, maybe?

He was stupid enough to light a match around someone pumping gas, so he certainly isn't smart enough to "stop, drop, and roll".

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: NSFW
darwin

too bad the guy still lived

wouldn't first degree burn to your testicles take you out of the gene pool?

I guess he should have adapted.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: Eli
WTF? I don't get it.. Why are there flames all over the ground? Did the other dude dump gas all over the place before his "friend" lit the match?

I'm guessing it was a still day, and the fumes were hanging around the pumps. It's really the fumes that are explosive. You can put a match out in gasoline on a windy day(no fumes around the gas).

I'm aware of these things, but fumes are poof - gone.

Originally posted by: amdforever2

Residue.

Years of drips/drops of gasoline accumulating on the ground.

:laugh:

no.

Originally posted by: preslove
Gasoline actually isn't flammable. Gasoline fumes, however, are extremely flammable. So, the idiot who lit the match ignited all of the gas fumes around him, but left the rest of the passengers unhurt.

Again, I'm aware of these things. There are more than fumes burning in that video.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: Eli
WTF? I don't get it.. Why are there flames all over the ground? Did the other dude dump gas all over the place before his "friend" lit the match?

I'm guessing it was a still day, and the fumes were hanging around the pumps. It's really the fumes that are explosive. You can put a match out in gasoline on a windy day(no fumes around the gas).

I'm aware of these things, but fumes are poof - gone.

Originally posted by: amdforever2

Residue.

Years of drips/drops of gasoline accumulating on the ground.

:laugh:

no.

Originally posted by: preslove
Gasoline actually isn't flammable. Gasoline fumes, however, are extremely flammable. So, the idiot who lit the match ignited all of the gas fumes around him, but left the rest of the passengers unhurt.

Again, I'm aware of these things. There are more than fumes burning in that video.

I am guessing once the initial fire started, the guy pumping the gas dropped the pump. The video mentioned that the clerk had to hang it up. So idiot 1 ignited the fumes directly around idiot 2 who dropped the pump giving more gas for idiot 1's fire to burn with.