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Probably planning to drive down into the Houston area and sell it for $10 a gallon.... I'm surprised they didn't shut the pumps off with that much fuel going on one feed and check out WTF was up, then again, might not have been the brightest bulb on shift... | |||
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With that quantity of fuel involved, it definitely warrants a call to 911 and request police and fire department assistance. ------------- $ | |||
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A Grateful American |
Read most responses, skimmed a couple. You did good. I would have done the same. My father was burned alive when his clutch grenaded at about 160MPH severed fuel lines, engulfing he and the car and the car rolled and flipped across the finish line and off the track. He died a few hours later in the hospital. My mother(preggers with me), and uncle were there. They lived with that horror and I picked up on it. JP-4 is 50/50 gas and kerosene, and I have been involved in 2 aircraft fires. It burns very hot, and is hard to get under control and out if you don't act real fast. I have been involved in several brush/grass fires and some other instances of fires. "Fear" of being burned badly, or perishing has always nagged at me. Not a phobia thing, just a very healthy respect for the potential. Transporting that amount of fuel in open and soft containers, there is great likelihood he would have had a spill and fire in transporting, or an accident would have been a very big and rapid fire. You, were minding your own business. The man was involved in actions that were dangerous to others. Thank you, for calling it in. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
good call. I got no problems if this fool wanted to kill himself, but he was putting other's lives and livelihoods at stake. You may well have saved his kid's lives if he has any. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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| Just for the hell of it  |
I would have stopped pumping my gas and gotten the heck out of there and then called the police/fire. Gas is highly flammable. That much with open tops are asking for trouble. You did the right thing. If he had driven off I don't see a good outcome and likely some innocent person would get hurt. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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I had a similar situation years back. Left immediately and called 911. I do not confront someone who is that stupid. They generally have poor impulse control. | |||
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Thanks for the posts, definitely cemented my opinion. | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
I say good call as well. In all likelihood, you probably saved his life and possibly others as well. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Fuck that moron - good call. | |||
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| Cogito Ergo Sum |
You did great. | |||
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I hope they confiscated his gas, and locked his ass up and/or fined him, at least for unapproved containers. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
I've seen a number of reports of similar shenanigans out of Texas. People suck. Hopefully when they inevitably perish painfully in a hellish inferno, they don't take anyone else with them. At least this guy's containers have lids, right?   | |||
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Holy shit. That is exactly what the guy I saw was doing!!!!!!! From the above linked story....  | |||
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Unhyphenated American |
Did her husband have the proper tools,(non static creating type)? __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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Who knows what you may have prevented? Good call. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Non-static-creating... wrenches? If such a thing exists: Probably so. He is, or was, an HVAC contractor. He installed the black pipe for our gas clothes dryer. (Previous owner had run semi-rigid copper from the black pipe going to the water heater, up, across the ceiling, and down the wall on the other side. Not exactly code.) Looking at the picture of the guy pumping gasoline into a plastic trash can... That's mind-numbingly stupid. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Freethinker |
When someone’s endangering me or the people around me, it becomes my business. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
You made a good call. | |||
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| Unhyphenated American |
They exist, made of brass or other non ferrous materials. http://remcoproducts.com/the-d...d-anti-static-tools/ __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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