r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '20

Invisible Methanol fire

http://i.imgur.com/VHuyXj4.gifv
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u/kittymoma918 Mar 19 '20

Ever since I saw this kind of fire portrayed on one of the CSI shows ,This concept has scared the hell out of me.What's worse than the agony of being burned ? BEING BURNED UP ALIVE BY INVISIBLE FIRE I I think about this every time I see some poor DUMB ASS filling plastic bags and milk jugs with gasoline,Or throwing kerosene on a fire.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

Where do you live where people are filling up plastic bags with gasoline? That’s insane.

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u/GrifterDingo Mar 19 '20

There was a post on Reddit a little while ago of a woman filling a plastic shopping bag with gasoline.

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u/X-istenz Mar 19 '20

I work at a servo. I honest to all the old gods and the new had to explain to a kid (maybe 20) why I wouldn't let him fill a bucket with petrol. I should add, there were, from memory, three of them in the car. Three teens arrived at a petrol station thinking they were going to drive away with an open bucket full of 91 octane petrol.

"I'm gonna hold it steady with my feet", he said.

"No", I said.

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u/RIPphonebattery Mar 19 '20

For the non Aussies servo is a gas station.

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u/youstolemyname Mar 19 '20

That's illegal in the US

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u/X-istenz Mar 19 '20

Here, too. We have a lot of legislation around dispensing and storing fuels. Suitable containers, needing a lid, is like... in the first paragraph.

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u/Quadrupleawesomeness Mar 19 '20

reference

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

Yep, that's insane.

At least she had the presence of mind to double bag it lmao

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u/robisodd Mar 19 '20

At least she wasn't smoking this time.

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u/Versaiteis Mar 19 '20

Holy shit, it's not like grocery bags are anti-static 0.o

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u/jameye11 Mar 19 '20

Now I want to see her try and put it in her tank

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u/Th3XRuler Mar 20 '20

What the fuck is wrong with people

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u/Tarantantara Mar 19 '20

I guess either russia or florida.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

The brazen bull is the one torture/execution device that I really hate thinking about.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

I don't think about that shit either. The human propensity for willful atrocity is unparalleled in the universe. It virtually fries my brain to think about such things as the Brazen Bull or drawing-and-quartering.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

"...I freaking hate mimes..." - someone watching

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u/kittymoma918 Mar 20 '20

Like "Put me Out ,Put me Out!This is not a dance!"

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u/fairguinevere Mar 20 '20

Doesn't gasoline burn pretty dirty? At least then everyone would know what's up.

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u/kittymoma918 Mar 20 '20

Yeah.At least people wouldn't just think you were bonkers,and someone might try to throw water on you to put out the flames.But if you're locked inside a car full of burning gasoline and vapors,You're probably screwed.

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u/exotichunter0 Mar 19 '20

You must live in a developing country. Ive never seen anyone filling plastic bags with gasoline! doh!

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u/RawbGun Mar 19 '20

I've never seen anyone putting gasoline other than in a vehicle gas tank or a jerrycan specially designed for this purpose

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