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Workin' at the Car Wash
Darwinism at work.
At work, Manoel Messias Batista Coelho was responsible for cleaning out the storage tanks of gasoline tanker trucks. He had been employed in that capacity for two months when he ran afoul of fuel.
The 35-year-old began to fill a tanker with water, a standard safety procedure that forces flammable vapor out of the container. He returned an hour later to check whether the water level was high enough to proceed. But he had trouble deciding, because it was so dark inside the tanker.
A resourceful employee, Manoel forgot the very reason why he was filling the tank with water when he lit a cigarette lighter to shed some light on the situation. His little test successfully determined that the water level was not yet high enough for safety. The vapor explosion launched him through the air, and he landed in the company parking lot 100 meters away.
Manoel suffered severe burns, blunt force trauma, and an injury to the head that exposed his brain. Our witless car washer had learned his terminal lesson in safety by the time the firemen arrived.
I once poured 5 gallons of gasoline on a pile of sticks and lit it with a match. When I regained consciousness I was unable to hear and the Police and Firetrucks would be arriving in 3 minutes due to about 6 phonecalls about "a bomb being exploded in the neighborhood". The firemen told me to use kerosine next time. I even made it into the local paper...ah good days.
2 of my friends once got a small plastic bottle of gasoline once back in the ukraine, about 300 ml, and put it on top of a pile of sticks in a forgotten trench which was about 5 feet deep.
i was really against it, but they lit the sticks anyway and we all stepped back.
after about 20 seconds when nothing happened one of the guys decided to go look and i was like "no, don't, let's wait a little" and he was like "all right" and at that same moment the thing blew up in a giant fireball that reached 4 feet above the ground... man, that was brutal... we haven't played with gasoline ever since.
but we did play with gunpowder and that's a whole another story... who'd know hunting ammunition blows up even if you completely disassemble it and put it in a fire.
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| Originally posted by whiskers ...we did play with gunpowder and that's a whole another story... who'd know hunting ammunition blows up even if you completely disassemble it and put it in a fire. |
I love it when there is a huge loud explosion and afterwards everyone is screaming at each other just so they can hear eachother.
fun times, especially around the 4th o july.
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| Originally posted by {b.s.e.} someone with common sense? |
Paintchips?
harley. werd. 
robby, you're missing some teeth.
DAMN, all Iis DAMN!
That's right!
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i blew a bin up before...that was fun
filled it with deodrant cans, spray paint cans and anything that was pressurised and had 'caution! flammable' written on it, we even put in a can of old whipped cream for added fun 
started a fire in the bin, a few inches deep of petrol and half full of pressurised cans...few minutes later, the whole bin got blown apart, the only thing that was left intact was the lid as that had to be kept open or else it would just snuff itself out...
those were the days...anarchy and arsonist days 
100% certified rebel
2 of my friends used to make all sorts of experinets and they came up with some powder that went up in a large bum when set on fire (dont even want to know what all they mixed into that). One time after gym class we lit a dash of it on fire and it exploded really loud. After that those two idiots thought that it would be wery cool if they used all the batch up at once. Now here we have a big pile of stuff that goes BOOOM in one corner of a small locker room a guy throwing matches at it at the door (about 2m away) and 60 guys on the other side of the wall listening to what will happen.
What happend was that the pile somehow cought fire when the guy had given up hope and just wlked outside to tell us nothing will happen. That was the biggest BOOM i heard in my life and probably the biggest one the rest of the school heard. Becouse the rest of the school did hear it even those on the 4th floor 
Now you try explaining to the teacher what the hell was that explosion a while ago 
Doesnt qualify for a darwin award but whe could have been in some serious shit if the teacher found out just what had happened that day
I'll look for you guys on the Darwins this year.
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