lighter to check gas can level

ihatemybike · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:14 pm

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1741 ... 29.article

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A Joliet woman suffered second-degree burns Tuesday night after she used a cigarette lighter to help her see how much gas was in a can she was been filling.

The incident happened at a 7-Eleven gas station at 1609 E. Cass about 10:30 p.m., police said.

The 27-year-old woman "was filling up a gas can, which was sitting on the passenger seat of the car. [She] then used a lighter to . . . observe how full the can was," police said.

The flame ignited the gas, and the can exploded, setting the car's interior aflame.

Apparently afraid that the fire would spread to the gas pump she had been using, the woman began to push the burning car.

The car was about five feet from the gas pumps and engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.

The woman was treated at the scene for second-degree burns to her right wrist and right thigh before being taken to Silver Cross Hospital. Her injuries were serious but not life-threatening.

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Sadly it appears she'll survive.

Xodius · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:39 pm

wow....darwinism....so close and yet...so close.
Scary what some people do.

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:43 pm

And to think those people maybe filling up next to you :shock:

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:43 pm

lol.. that's sad

when I was out at carolina beach with James (ohv) and his buds, one of their friends (who I won't name :lol:

) was attempting to get a fire going using wet wood, it was basically just smoldering

he took a can of lantern fuel / kerosene and poured it over into the fire, which flashed and lit the can, so he threw the can.

There were gobblets of fire all over the sand and from off in the distance you heard another camper shout,

"HEY MAN.. YOUR FOOTS ON FIREEEEEE"

all the while, i'm slowly slinking back around the side of his cherokee, because at this time I don't know that it's lantern fuel, I'm thinking that it's gas and waiting for the boom :lol:

Hey.. someone's gotta be unburnt enough to drive them to the hospital

bugnout · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:46 pm

Darwin award nominee...

Murphyman · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:20 pm

Reminds me of Zoolander.

Budke · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:48 pm

Hah, Zoolander....... :lol:

Khaki-KJ · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:34 pm

Unfreaking belivable :shock:

lighter to check gas can level

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