CCTV footage has captured the moment a motorist used a lighter to see if his canister was full and sprayed burning fuel all over a petrol station. In the footage, the man can just about be seen on top of the vehicle, to the right, where it is believed he is trying to put diesel into a canister strapped onto the roof of his van. Because it is difficult to see, he takes out a lighter which ignites the fumes causing a mini explosion, and burning flames begin flowing out of the nozzle. The panicked man then drops the nozzle, which sprays burning fuel over the forecourt and other vehicles as he tries to flee for safety in the city of Taraz, Kazakhstan. One brave car driver is seen rushing back and getting into his own vehicle as the fire spreads to a silver grey jeep and a white Lada that were parked on the other side of the tank.
Leave it in the car, find and pull the emergency shut off switch on the outside of the store, call 911. A fire that starts in the tank will extinguish itself so long as it isn’t provided with more oxygen to burn (i.e. outside the tank). Your gas tank won’t explode if you leave the nozzle in, but you will have a sudden, uncontrollable and catastrophic accidental flamethrower if you pull it out.
Watched a dude on the other side of the pump from me light up a cigarette the other day. Immediately stopped my pump and left. I refuse to be a victim of one of these situations
That was a wild ride. Started thinking the white car was going to reverse into the blue one, then thinking the blue one was going to end up taking off without pulling out the pump, then spot some dude standing on top of something only to end up with a volcano of flames that starts spraying on everyone’s cars.
OSHA has pretty much taken a hold in most countries now and with stricter safety precautions unfortunately a lot of these oxygen thieves are avoiding natural selection by the skin of their teeth. Ironically that does mean they are able to participate in many more near disasters than they would have 20 years ago.
Damn idiot. At least they had a fire suppression system.
And what the hell was he filling from the roof?
I thought the little white car was going to steal the gas.
CCTV footage has captured the moment a motorist used a lighter to see if his canister was full and sprayed burning fuel all over a petrol station. In the footage, the man can just about be seen on top of the vehicle, to the right, where it is believed he is trying to put diesel into a canister strapped onto the roof of his van. Because it is difficult to see, he takes out a lighter which ignites the fumes causing a mini explosion, and burning flames begin flowing out of the nozzle. The panicked man then drops the nozzle, which sprays burning fuel over the forecourt and other vehicles as he tries to flee for safety in the city of Taraz, Kazakhstan. One brave car driver is seen rushing back and getting into his own vehicle as the fire spreads to a silver grey jeep and a white Lada that were parked on the other side of the tank.
My favourite is the guy in the passenger seat who got out to wipe the windscreen while everything was on fire and about to explode… Priorities.
so then what happened?
How do people like this exist?
Too many warning labels
That little van that had just pulled in backing tf out
using lighter to check if its full
natural selection at it’s finest
r/AbruptChaos
And the extinguisher remains untouched
NEVER PULL THE NOZZLE OUT.
Leave it in the car, find and pull the emergency shut off switch on the outside of the store, call 911. A fire that starts in the tank will extinguish itself so long as it isn’t provided with more oxygen to burn (i.e. outside the tank). Your gas tank won’t explode if you leave the nozzle in, but you will have a sudden, uncontrollable and catastrophic accidental flamethrower if you pull it out.
If there’s a fire at the nozzle… DO NOT REMOVE IT!!!!
Watched a dude on the other side of the pump from me light up a cigarette the other day. Immediately stopped my pump and left. I refuse to be a victim of one of these situations
White van was like, AW HELL NO!
That was a wild ride. Started thinking the white car was going to reverse into the blue one, then thinking the blue one was going to end up taking off without pulling out the pump, then spot some dude standing on top of something only to end up with a volcano of flames that starts spraying on everyone’s cars.
Points for the suprise.
Hello friends! Would you like to be on fire too?
White van skedaddles!
Was he smoking? Or did gas spill into something super hot?
wow that escalated quick. really really quick!
How in the literal hell….?
How STUPID can you be?
At what point did his brain not get common sense?
“Hmmm…gas is flammable. I know this because I saw that idiot on YouTube pour gas on that campfire. Oh well….LET ME PULL OUT MY LIGHTER!”
Dumb. That should be a trip to jail for being so stupid.
He could’ve literally hurt or killed someone by being that damn stupid.
Natural selection only works if you die and don’t procreate.
For almost half a minute i thought there is a monkey on the lamp and it will hop in the car. Turns out it was a person on a van. I need some sleep
Shit, is that a halide fire suppressor at the end? Get. The. Fuck. Out. Of. The. Fog!
This feels like a video that would shown in school and you have to pick out what’s wrong in this scene.
That was the most r/maybemaybemaybe thing I’ve ever seen
So I was watching the all the cars on the left, waiting to see the stupidly then fireball on the right holy
Made ya look!
“If it can be fucked up, it has been fucked up before” – me
Dude was probably running in to get a pack of cigarettes and had no idea.
That was quite the timely escape
Watching on my phone in low contrast- I thought someone was getting railed on top of the camper, nope, just fucked.
Sometimes I imagine having the following conversation with someone:
“Oh wow! I saw what happened! Do you need to go to the hospital?”
“No, I’m fine, actually.”
“Here, let me fix that.”
Well, that escalated quickly. I’m surprised that it didn’t blow up!
He went back and pulled the nozzle out AFTER he set his tank on fire. Sure, lets make things worse.
Actually didn’t go as bad as I was expecting.
I love how the driver came out just to clean that little oil on his car while there is a disaster going on behind him like:” oh no my car!”
OSHA has pretty much taken a hold in most countries now and with stricter safety precautions unfortunately a lot of these oxygen thieves are avoiding natural selection by the skin of their teeth. Ironically that does mean they are able to participate in many more near disasters than they would have 20 years ago.
As a health and safety officer, the amount of people who stand very near things on fire, fuel etc are very very scary.
lol, the van was like “fuck this shit, I’m out.”