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Another Candidate for the Darwin Awards
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What year end review would be complete without those nominations? I voted for the couple who fell off the building and the gals taking the shortcut across the freeway....BRILLIANT!
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Unfortunate Husband II in "Urban Legends" sounds disturbingly like an incident in Calgary during the early 1980's.
It seems a guy had either cleaned his bike with gasoline or simply stored it with a full tank inside his PMQ (not sure what the circumstances were). Fumes leaked out and eventually reached the pilot light of the furnace or water heater in the basement (gasoline vapour being heavier than air) with the predictable result of an explosion and fire which pretty much demolished the PMQ.
I am pretty sure no one was hurt in the incident, but perhaps someone out there remembers more details.
It seems a guy had either cleaned his bike with gasoline or simply stored it with a full tank inside his PMQ (not sure what the circumstances were). Fumes leaked out and eventually reached the pilot light of the furnace or water heater in the basement (gasoline vapour being heavier than air) with the predictable result of an explosion and fire which pretty much demolished the PMQ.
I am pretty sure no one was hurt in the incident, but perhaps someone out there remembers more details.
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Thucydides said:
Are you sure that it was Calgary? One of the guys on my jet course in 1981 or 1982 (most likely the latter) was working on some of his motor bike parts in the basement of his PMQ and spilled some residual fuel from the tank. He'd started wiping it up when he heard the furnace start up and barely had time to think "uh-oh" before it went bang. No serious injury, but the flames burnt a small hole through the basement ceiling and into the front entranceway floor.
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And a Canadian one for 2008: A cotton swab in the ear can kill.
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This also falls under those funny warning labels. For example, on a rectal thermometer: Do not use orally. :-X
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This also falls under those funny warning labels. For example, on a rectal thermometer: Do not use orally. :-X
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This just makes me shake my head.... How stupid can some people be?
http://www.fwditon.com/attachments/2008/3/4/120463378388_Shell_-_19.11.07.wmv
http://www.fwditon.com/attachments/2008/3/4/120463378388_Shell_-_19.11.07.wmv
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And goes to show that unlike the movies, entire tankers do not always explode and take out every house for a 500m radiius...
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I had a flashback to that old British first aid film we use to have to watch as part of fire safety...
"Roll around Bill, roll around!" (or words to that effect)
"Roll around Bill, roll around!" (or words to that effect)
I've seen this video elsewhere on the internets. The concensus seems to be that he had a cell phone on in his pocket and got a call. He wasn't smoking or anything so it seems possible, and you can see him look at his pocket like he got a call just before the big event. But it could have been something else he did or something off camera too.
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