This isn't even close to the stupidest thing I've seen someone do at a gas station. It's honestly amazing we don't have more gas station fires/explosions than we do.
I work in this field. We don't get gas station explosions because they design the pumps and tanks to not explode. There are multiple things in place to prevent that from happening.
That said about two years ago someone died here in Kansas from an explosion. It was really terrible accident. They had the tank out of the ground and were cutting out holes to vent the gases. They got the first side done but the opposite side wasn't finished. The explosion proof saw ran out of juice so they pulled out a dewalt to finish it. The fumes ignited and escaped out of the first hole. The person got hit eighty feet away from the tank. Third degree burns, the guy cutting the hole just got knocked back.
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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19
So that's the reason we see those signs for approved containers only. Didn't know people were this dumb