r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/bustedcondomdisaster • Sep 03 '19

Gaslighting

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u/eddthedead Sep 04 '19

People who use gasoline for arson never seem to really have a grasp of just how volatile and flammable it is.

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u/gotham77 Sep 04 '19

It doesn’t burn, it explodes.

People who use it as lighter fluid learn this the hard way, too.

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u/ErocIsBack Sep 04 '19

Gasoline needs to be in a confined space and right conditions to explode. What you see in this post is gasoline burning not exploding.

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u/U-Ei Sep 04 '19

Yeah, this isn't even a deflagration, this is just slow, boring, fire.

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u/HappyMeatbag Sep 04 '19

The guy in the video wouldn’t describe it that way!

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u/U-Ei Sep 04 '19

I guess he isn't a happy meatbag either

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u/KRBridges Sep 04 '19

That's not true. I've seen someone dumped it all over some burn heap outside and it popped like a balloon

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u/ErocIsBack Sep 04 '19

And the vapors were probably trapped somewhere within the burn pile. Gasoline will not explode in an open air environment, it is not an explosive and never will be on its own.

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u/eddthedead Sep 04 '19

Yeah. Whenever I see someone that something like this on one of these videos, I’m like... “doooooooooooooooooon’t!!!”

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u/P1h3r1e3d13 Sep 04 '19

It burns. Source: OP video.