07-27-2005, 04:56 PM
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Suprise Me
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,259
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Originally Posted by dicksbro
No problem at all when people smoke in their own cars or homes or any public place even though I don't smoke (anymore) and don't like the smell ... but ... and I'm really serious ... had a scare a month or so ago. The feller who delivers gasoline to a filling station in town came into the station shaking. He'd been filling the underground tanks when he realized that a "LIT CIGARETTE" had rolled across the lot and caught on the edge of the tank opening. If wind had blown it over the edge ... the tank would have blown, the corner destroyed and a number of people ... including me ... killed or injured.
Please ... if you smoke ... put them out before you go into a gas station or into your ash tray before you get out of the car. Please!
Thanks.
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I would have been shaking in my shoes too...
A bit of trivia from my old mechanic.... (I have never put this to a test though) He said that it isn't gasoline that starts a fire, it is the fumes that are flamable. He would often have a small bucket (pint) of gas a day or two old that he would toss his cigerettes into and never had a problem as the didn't put off any fumes... 
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