This is a story that was found in a newspaper and is circling around about an ex-husband who had this annoying habit of bringing greasy old carburetors and things into the house to work on.
The story goes on to tell about this guys’ bad day.
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“So he pushes his motorcycle from the patio into the living room, where he began to clean the engine with some rags and a bowl of gasoline. When he finished, he sat on the motorcycle and decided to start it to make sure everything was still OK. Unfortunately, the bike started in gear, and crashed through the glass patio door with him still clinging to the handlebars.
His wife had been working in the kitchen. She came running at the noise, and found him crumpled on the patio, badly cut from the shards of broken glass. She called 911, and the paramedics transported the guy to the emergency room.
Later that afternoon, after many stitches had pulled her husband back together, the wife brought him home and put him to bed. She cleaned up the mess in the living room, and dumped the bowl of gasoline in the toilet.
Shortly thereafter, her husband woke up, lit a cigarette, and went into the bathroom. He sat down and tossed the cigarette into the toilet, which promptly exploded because the wife had not flushed the gasoline away. The explosion blew the man through the bathroom door.
The wife heard the explosion and her husband’s screams. She ran into the hall and found him lying on the floor with his trousers blown away and burns on his buttocks. The wife again ran to the phone and called for an ambulance.
The same two paramedics were dispatched to the scene. They loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying him to the street. One of them asked the wife how the injury had occurred. When she told the, they began laughing so hard they dropped the stretcher and broke the guy’s collarbone.”
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Now the article was pretty much about how the man got what he deserved by always cluttering the house with his dirty engines and parts. But in my opinion it’s the wife who should be shot for doing something as stupid as pouring gasoline into a toilet. She’s lucky she didn’t kill the poor bastard. And as far as the paramedics are concerned, why wouldn’t they have found out why he was injured before loading him onto a gurney and to make matters worse, they were so unprofessional that they burst into laughter at the poor victims’ expense causing them to drop a freaking patient and injure him further.
I’m starting to think that the guy who accidentally drove the bike through the window wasn’t the stupid one. Just a guy with bad luck. While everyone else involved deserves a Stupid Bullet right in the head.
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October 5th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Bullshit.
What I have trouble with is “The explosion blew the man through the bathroom door”.
The amount of vaporized gasoline in the toilet bowl would not have the energy when ignited to lift a man off the seat let alone blow him through the door. Not even if his ass cheeks made a perfect seal around the bowl.
I’m not going to get into the math on this one because it isn’t worth it.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Bullshit some more.
I heard this story first when I was about 8 years old. That’s eight years ago. There is no way all of the events happened again in the same fashion. It’s just a story that you have taken the time to add a few adjectives and fine details too, like the ‘blowing through the door’ thing.
October 7th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Just to put the nail in the coffin, cigarettes don’t burn at a high enough temperature to ignite gasoline. That’s right, go pour some petrol on your driveway and throw a lit cigarette into it… most likely the gasoline will put out the cigarette, if anything. Not even the vapors will ignite. The real danger of ‘cigarette smoking’ around gas has nothing to do with the cigarette itself, but with the use of lighters around it. A single spark can ignite gasoline vapors, and a lit flame is hot enough to ignite the gasoline itself. All those Hollywood movies with a ‘cigarette thrown out a car window into a trail of gasoline’ sequences are full of shit.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Mythbusters tested this and proved the above rejections. A cigarrette cannot light gas and explosives in a toilet do not launch people sitting on the toilet. Look it up or watch the show.
JJ
October 19th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
urban legend. snopes.com has the, er, poop.