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You just can't make things like this up...from the Brush Colorado News Times................................
 

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Listen Hear Y'all I done something similar to that but I wasn't living in the Great Region known as the South. I was tuning my bike uo for a race on Sunday (this was on a Friday afternoonm I was running A hot mix of Nitro Methane in the bike, I was boogieing acroos the desert and noticed my bike tank turning from Competition Yellow to Scorched black, I guess my fuel cap leaked and a cigarette ash dropped on it and the fuel mix was so hot, you couldn't see it, So I dumped the bike threw sand and dirt on it to smother the flames. I pushed the bike back home about a mile and wasn't about t work on it out side in the dark ans summer heat, it was like 110 this was around August in Las Vegas. SOO I took the bike inside, pulled the tank, did a quick sanding job OUT SIDE, I had hosed it off before I brought it in, rewired it, rebuilt the Carb, and repainted it. (in the living room,) My Mom was Pissed when she came home. fortunately we had tile floors so they cleaned up OK but I nearly got beat to death, , the sad part is I blew to bottom end in about the 3rd or fourth lap. So things like that don't just happen in the South. maybe just to rednecks in general:rolleyes:
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Lesse, A man cleans his motor cycle in living room. later Wife nearly kills him in an explosion. This then called an accident? Okaaaaay, if you say so.
 
Ken, about 5 or 6 years ago, I decided to build a Big Block Chevy engine in the dining room. It was middle of winter and the dining room had tile floors. I got the thing built, complete long block. the fun part came when I realized it was too heavy for anyone to lift. Made a few phone calls, and after some Good Ole Southern Inginuity, we were able to get it out of the house.
 
Oh man that article was hilarious. My gut was hurting from laughing so hard. Then tried to tell the story to my wife and was laughing trying to read it out loud.
 
I hate to ruin a perfectly funny story, but the part about the gasoline in the toilet bowl doesn't ring true. I seem to remember an episode of Myth Busters dealing with exactly that. I went to their website and this is what I found.

It is possible to ignite a pool of gasoline using only a cigarette.
partly plausible

A cigarette has the potential to light a pool of gasoline but just doesn't have enough sustained heat. Gas ignites between 500 °F and 540 °F, the cigarette at its hottest was between 450 °F and 500 °F but only when it was actually being smoked. An ignition is very improbable.

Now they are talking about a pool of gasoline being improbable to light with a cigerette, but a pool of gasoline mixed with toilet bowl water? Sorry but I can't buy into this one.
 
Bruce, I was thinking the same thing. I also thought it may have been fumes that ignited and not necessarily the gas still in the bowl. not sure how much of a difference that woudl make. I have known for quite a while that liquid gas will not ignite by dropping a cigarette in it though. Regardless it is still a funny story.
 
The fact of the matter is that gas in it's liquid form does not burn. It is the fumes coming off the gas that burns. That is why an almost empty gas tank is more dangerous than a full one, there is more room for the fumes to collect. Also gas and water don't mix well, the gas just floats on top of the water, thats why you can't put out a gas fire with a water hose, it just spreads it around.
 
Doesn't mention if it is true or not, but there are several references to the story in different forms of very similar details going back several decades:

http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/accident/toilet.asp

From my experience, what raises my question mark, if the man spent enough time to get stitched up and brought home and his wife cleaned up the mess, I doubt the same ambulance team would still be on duty, and having worked with gasoline, you would have to be on some VERY strong painkillers to not smell a toilet bowl full of the stuff the minute you walked in the room...

Still crazy funny, and I'm sure I have met several people with the smarts to pull this off...
 
That's funny. I think I've heard other stories about guys getting blown up on the toilet. One of my favorite stories from the Tampa paper. A man, his girlfriend and his mother split a lottery ticket (2 bucks). right before the drawing they started arguing over what they would do with the money IF they won. The police were called. A window airconditioner was pushed out of the second story window in an apartment complex and one of them ended up with a broken arm. Pretty funny.
 
It IS the fumes that ignite alright. Haven't you ever seem a bunch of sparks fly when someone flips a cigarette out the window. Maybe this poor Ole soul hit the rim of the bowl and the sparks flew and the fumes ignited. This also has to do with the mixture of air and fumes being just right ... maybe he was making his own type of gas as well.

Me, I'm not about to test the theory one way or the other. I investigated during my career many cases of unexplained fires/explosions/etc. All could just about be guaranteed to have been caused by someone being stupid with cigarettes, or careless about where they were when they lit one. Like the one here in Chamblee many years ago when the fueling depot exploded when a trucker attached his tanker to the gasoline fuel tanks ... and then lit a cigarette while still standing at the fill station.

That explosion was caused by the fumes being ignited by the dumb_SSE driver tossing his match to the ground. He paid the ultimate price for that cancer stick ... and the rest of us watched the depot burn for many days afterward. :rolleyes:

Haven't you known of anyone turning on the gas to the BBQ, waiting for a second or more, and then throwing in a lit match? Another good way to find yourself on the other side of the neighbors house. :eek:
 
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I hate to ruin a perfectly funny story, but the part about the gasoline in the toilet bowl doesn't ring true. I seem to remember an episode of Myth Busters dealing with exactly that. I went to their website and this is what I found.

It is possible to ignite a pool of gasoline using only a cigarette.
partly plausible

A cigarette has the potential to light a pool of gasoline but just doesn't have enough sustained heat. Gas ignites between 500 °F and 540 °F, the cigarette at its hottest was between 450 °F and 500 °F but only when it was actually being smoked. An ignition is very improbable.

Now they are talking about a pool of gasoline being improbable to light with a cigerette, but a pool of gasoline mixed with toilet bowl water? Sorry but I can't buy into this one.
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funny you said that they also did the myth of this story. lighting a gas filled toilet cant blow you anywhere, just burns. doesnt even have enough "boom" energy to move a human. lol they pretty much have most myths covered at this point
 
Woof Juice. THAT is FUNNY! I actually lost both eyebrows once because of "Woof Juice"!!
 
Great story! I don't rule out out anything to probability. It's a crazy world and sh-t happens. Without people like these two, many would be out of a job. I say someone send it to myth busters. Lol
 
Wow that story sure has changed since I used to tell it to my friends in school 30 years ago. Except the version I heard was the wife sprayed lysol in the toilet which caused fumes that ignited when the husband threw the cigarette in the toilet and when the paramedics dropped the stretcher it's supposed to break the guys wrists...not his collarbone....lol.
 
We had a local guy, fill up his truck at a station. Got in and drove off. Lite a cigarette not knowing he had spilled some gas on his clothes. Caught fire, ran off the road and wrecked his truck, plus got some pretty bad burns.

But ya, I read this and laughed, very humorous, true or not,
 
I read this before and very funny, because I know lots of guys who have worked on their bikes in the living room while watching the game, without the wife's permission. I am thinking this wife just claimed it was an accident. They guy was smart enough to not contradict her.

I heard a story once about a guy thinking it would be tasty to replace the water bath in his smoker with Jack Daniels, as well as baste with it. I guess everything was fine until a little breeze came up and his chips went from smolder to ignite.
 
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