Associated Press – July 21, 2007:
A 19-year-old woman caught fire after she was fiddling with a cigarette lighter as she pumped gas, authorities said.
Brianna Sanchez was at a Sun Dial gas station with her boyfriend Friday night when the incident occurred, said Sgt. Jackie Budd, a spokesman with the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office.
Budd called the incident a “freak accident” and said there was no reason to believe otherwise.
He said witnesses reported the woman was casually pumping gas and that she had a lighter in her hand. That’s when flames shot out of the gas tank.
The woman and the immediate area caught fire. A person at the scene put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher.
>>I saw it too. It’s Albert Einstein’s face in the smoke.
Naw, it’s God’s face.
He’s looking down on His creation thinking “How the fuck could I have gone so wrong?? I’m God, damn it! It’s one thing to be snacking on forbidden apples, but this fucking toilet-paper-brained piece of trailer trash fired up her lighter at the pumps! Christ. That’s it; I’m bringing on the End Times”.
#32 – ECA,
Would touching the car discharge the static? My car’s tires are rubber.
Mister Mustard:
Thank you for that spit take. Now I gotta break out the Windex to clean the coffee off my monitor.
Scott – the ∆V exists between you, isolated from earth ground, and the vehicle, which is likewise isolated.