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- Shawn4168, on 04/08/2009, -7/+42............................................______ __
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........................................_........ ..._,-%.......` - pplant, on 04/08/2009, -2/+36'Officer I was just drying my car off at 125 mph.'
- angusm, on 04/08/2009, -1/+30Darwin let him off lightly.
- badqat, on 04/08/2009, -0/+22Arson is fun!
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -0/+21It's not a pool of gasoline in this case, it is gasoline soaked into porous material, which acts as a wick.
- CoreyTamas, on 04/08/2009, -0/+19It's finally official: You can be charged for being stupid.
- V3n0M, on 04/08/2009, -1/+19"NO ONE is that stupid"? Have you read these comments??
- Janv1er, on 04/08/2009, -0/+17I burst out laughing when I saw that is WASN'T the onion.
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -0/+16Oh, c'mon!
Is anyone actually buying that excuse? He was trying to burn the place down. NO ONE is that stupid. - FlopinDonkFest, on 04/08/2009, -0/+16I've used gas to clean my hands a few times after having sap or gluey crap stuck on them after cutting down pine trees or something similar... I'm pretty sure it was gas I used. Maybe the Fumes brained my damage and now I can't remember for sure.
- ptrcd003, on 04/08/2009, -1/+15A pool of gasoline, not a rag soaked with it. Its common sense, stop relying on some tv show to explain life to you.
- Chak2007, on 04/08/2009, -0/+14http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1959/thestupiditb ...
- aaronisreal, on 04/08/2009, -0/+11He's a liar.
"...he decided to use gasoline for cleaning up his apartment, and then tossed a lit cigarette into a pile of gas-soaked cushions and clothes."
What a crock. - Hetman, on 04/08/2009, -1/+12In that episode they did not take into consideration any thing but Gasoline. This is arson. But I am not sure what temperature you have to reach to ignite cloth. And if a cigarette is capable of doing that then it would ignite the gas also. I mean you hear of people falling asleep with cigerettes and catching there bed and couches on fire, so I think it is possible.
- Nintendesert, on 04/08/2009, -1/+11Actually, it is.
- Drull, on 04/08/2009, -1/+10I don't think I've ever known anyone to clean with gasoline.
- wannaBdug, on 04/08/2009, -10/+19He wasn't thinking when he decided to use gasoline for cleaning up his apartment, and then tossed a lit cigarette into a pile of gas-soaked cushions and clothes. What? What was he thinking about?
- kspanks04, on 04/08/2009, -4/+12Well...according to mythbusters you cannot ignite gasoline from a lit cigarette.
"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." - skersh, on 04/08/2009, -0/+7Dugg for rare appropriate use of facepalm.
- bradjenkins0, on 04/08/2009, -0/+6Gas is an excellent cleaner of oil based contaminate. Unless his apartment was soaked in grease, it probably didn't do much good.
Makes a good paint stripper too. - Otto, on 04/08/2009, -0/+5Gasoline doesn't ignite. Gasoline vapors mixed with air do. And igniting those with a cigarette is not difficult to do. It's just not as simple as tossing a smoke into a puddle of gasoline, is all.
- inigomntoya, on 04/08/2009, -0/+5I learned at a young age that pulling the fire alarm at school (for any reason) got you detention!
- Otto, on 04/08/2009, -1/+6Umm... I've lit gasoline off a thrown cigarette before. Intentionally, in my case, but it's relatively easy to do. Don't know what the Mythbusters were thinking, but they got it wrong.
You can't light a POOL of gasoline from a cigarette, but when it's thinly spread or poured onto the ground, then yes, it's actually quite easy to do. - jfreder, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4The 5th word is arson. I bet they are charging him with that.
- Janv1er, on 04/08/2009, -0/+4http://xane.gamez-interactive.de/Pub/Pictures/Fun/ ...
- secrity, on 04/08/2009, -0/+3Vegetable oil can be wiped off or washed off with detergent and water.
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -1/+4http://instantrimshot.com/
- drinking12many, on 04/08/2009, -0/+3Arson was his intention and an arson charge is what he got.
- inigomntoya, on 04/08/2009, -0/+3I used to get my hands all gummy climbing pine trees when i was a kid. I would use vegetable oil to clean them off.
- redux2redux, on 04/08/2009, -0/+3How far behind was he on his mortgage payments?
- inigomntoya, on 04/08/2009, -0/+3They did! That's how they caught me...
- stopbrorape, on 04/08/2009, -0/+3Saw it on my local news.
Hello Wisconsin! - Solkre, on 04/08/2009, -2/+5Better chances than admitting you just wanted to burn the ***** down.
Maybe he's the soldier from TF2. "FIRE FIRE FIRE!" goes to find medic.
Screw pulling the alarm, those are for wusses! - banderwocky, on 04/08/2009, -1/+3Wow. Just wow.
- rdjrdj, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2No. It's not a good excuse. Ever.
- evisr8r, on 04/08/2009, -1/+3wow, no way. I thought the vapor could ignite, seems like i've always heard of some dumbass who was smoking while filling a container and blew up. I can sort of understand the pool part since it immediately brings the temp down, don't know.
- Glassmentality, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2This guy should have been Darwin'd.
- secrity, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2I have heard of people cleaning stuff in the house with gasoline and having the vapors lit by a water heater or stove pilot light. I have cleaned greasy stuff with gasoline, but it was done outdoors or in the garage -- and I knew that it wasn't a Good Idea..
- malaak, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2We call these people "Cheesebillies"
- Shawn4168, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2Your school should have installed one of these:
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/fail-o ... - Otto, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1secrity: So... are you suggesting that a cigarette can't light fabrics on fire then?
- AremRed, on 04/08/2009, -2/+3The guy is probably lying. It takes very extreme circumstances to ignite gas with a cigarette, especially like you see in the movies.
http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/mpmain.html
Scroll 3/4 of the way down to the section "Cigarettes as Lighters" - mnemy, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1About as believable as "officer, I didn't know that pulling the trigger would shoot the gun!"
- Colecoman1982, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1Yea, I can't imagine how they could have come to that conclusion given the facts of the case...
- Otto, on 04/08/2009, -1/+2What?
-Pour some gas on the concrete or pavement.
-Flick your lit and well-burning smoke straight at the ground. Hard.
-Tell me that those aren't flames surrounding your feet.
It works. It's even easy to do. And once again, reality proves theory wrong.
The key to doing it, BTW, is to make the cherry come apart into several sparks. This increases the chances of igniting the vapor. Of course, gas doesn't burn, it's the vapor air mixture that does it. So you have to provide maximum burning surface area in order to ignite that vapor. Just tossing a smoke casually into gas won't light it, but flicking it hard against a solid surface near the vapor will. - V3NOM, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1http://bash.org/?4753
- oxymoron69, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1He was cleaning his apartment with gas... you don't think in all that time some of that liquid would turn to vapour and potentially ignite?
Besides, the smoke landed on fabric soaked with a flammable substance with more than likely, a cloud of gasoline vapour all around it.
Hey, have you ever thrown a lit cig at night? They tend to throw off some little pieces of the heater(sparks) when they hit something. - TheNeptune, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1Shouldn't you be asking who cleans their couch with gasoline? That wasn't your indicator that he was lying?
- Hetman, on 04/08/2009, -3/+4It was an honest mistake. Nothing you can do about it.
- garlicdeath, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1You know, that episode doesn't really apply here.
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