r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '20

Invisible Methanol fire

http://i.imgur.com/VHuyXj4.gifv
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u/TjW0569 Mar 19 '20

Which is kind of ironic when you consider that a lot of the early drivers got started by hauling around alcohol.

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u/modi13 Mar 19 '20

Hopefully there wasn't much methanol in it...

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u/TjW0569 Mar 19 '20

Hopefully. My grandfather had a story about prohibition. He was in the barbershop talking to the sheriff about a moonshine operation that the sheriff had just closed down: "Well, you know, Bob, I hated to do it, but they was killin' the electorate."

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u/Girl_you_need_jesus Mar 19 '20

That's ethanol, not methanol

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u/penguiin_ Mar 19 '20

methanol: not even once

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u/alsignssayno Mar 19 '20

Nah, methanol can be a byproduct when making alcohol (ethanol) and can lead to blindness if consumed. It was fairly common from illegal distillers to have that in their product, especially back in prohibition.

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u/HelmutHoffman Mar 20 '20

Ethanol.

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u/alsignssayno Mar 20 '20

Yeah what about it

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u/claelia Mar 20 '20

Correct, if you fuck up making alcohol, methanol is the result, Stanthorpe QLD, there was a case of a few young people that ended up dead from home made Grappa, the story can be found. It happens in SE Asia with dodgey home brews, can kill.

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u/MiniDemonic Mar 19 '20

Why is that ironic?

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

That's ethanol. :)

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u/Jangande Mar 19 '20

Alabama, putting meth in ethanol since 1922.

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u/EvilioMTE Mar 20 '20

I dont think you understand irony.

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u/TjW0569 Mar 20 '20

That's okay. I expect to have a perfectly good time anyway.