Like cleaning your hands with gasoline near a stove.
POMPANO BEACH - A woman's trailer burned to the ground when she tried to clean her hands with gasoline and left the gas can on a stove with an open flame.The woman apparently never watched or forgot all those television shows or movies where gasoline easily catches on fire or tanks of it blow up. I'm only two years older, and I have no trouble forgetting.The 45-year-old woman had been painting inside her trailer about 2 p.m. in the 200 block of Northeast 25th Avenue when she decided to clean her hands with the gasoline, said Sandra King, spokeswoman for Pompano Beach Fire-Rescue. The woman placed the can of gasoline on a stove with a lit pilot and it ignited, she said.
The woman escaped with minor burns to her hands and was treated at the scene. The trailer was destroyed.
"One should never use gasoline as a cleaning solvent - ever - near an open flame because it gives off flammable vapors," King said.
She survived, so no Darwin award nominee for the homeowner.
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Somehow, I think Madge from... (Below threshold)1. Posted by kbiel
| February 6, 2008 12:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Somehow, I think Madge from the Palmolive commercials would disapprove.
1. Posted by kbiel
| February 6, 2008 12:01 PM |
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Posted on February 6, 2008 12:01
2. Posted by yetanotherjohn | February 6, 2008 1:18 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
As Rosy would say "This is the first time in the history of the world that open flame ignited gasoline. Come on people, don't you realize that it was really George Bush who burned down that trailer."
2. Posted by yetanotherjohn | February 6, 2008 1:18 PM |
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Posted on February 6, 2008 13:18
3. Posted by Mikey | February 6, 2008 3:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This reminds me of a story my dad told us. He was a cop in NYC during the 50's - late 70's.
They got a call of a gas leak so they went to make sure everyone evacuates the building. They were being followed by firefighters and someone from the gas company. They get to one apartment that smelled particularly strong of automobile gasoline. They figured they had a firebug so they busted down the down to find the renter in there, radio blasting in the bathroom while he cleaned oily rags in his bathtub with five gallons of gas. After they convinced him to put his cigarette out, he told them that it was fine because the window was open.
I could just imagine the guy sitting there with his zippo and the cigarette hanging from his lip.
3. Posted by Mikey | February 6, 2008 3:28 PM |
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Posted on February 6, 2008 15:28
4. Posted by Spurwing Plover | February 6, 2008 7:38 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Should stuck with SOAP and WATER its safer then gasoline
4. Posted by Spurwing Plover | February 6, 2008 7:38 PM |
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Posted on February 6, 2008 19:38
5. Posted by DoubleU | February 6, 2008 7:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Pompano trailer park,... yup.
Its not that the gas is flammable, the fumes are VERY flammable.
5. Posted by DoubleU | February 6, 2008 7:43 PM |
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Posted on February 6, 2008 19:43
6. Posted by Spurwing Plover | February 6, 2008 11:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
She should have stuck with SOAP and WATER
6. Posted by Spurwing Plover | February 6, 2008 11:53 PM |
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Posted on February 6, 2008 23:53
7. Posted by tj | February 7, 2008 5:16 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
sounds like the gene pool needs chlorene.
7. Posted by tj | February 7, 2008 5:16 AM |
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Posted on February 7, 2008 05:16