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| Thread ID: 124751 | 2012-05-17 06:45:00 | Where's the awareness? | tuiruru (12277) | PC World Chat |
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| 1275866 | 2012-05-17 06:45:00 | I've just been to the local petrol station to get the car ready for an early start journey tomorrow morning... There was a dipstick (polite term) driver sat there in his car at a pump, petrol going in, window wound down, smoking (and I mean really drawing on so there's a bright red glow!) a cigarette, whilst talking on his mobile phone at the same time. There are notices up about not doing either. In my will, I've stated I want to be buried, not cremated! What should I have done? |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1275867 | 2012-05-17 06:55:00 | Run?:waughh: | Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1275868 | 2012-05-17 06:57:00 | Certainly not to be advised, but I recall somewhere that the danger is not so much the cigarette but rather an open flame used to light it that is the problem. Something to do with the already burnt cigarette not containing enough heat to ignite the petrol. But I'd rather not put it to the test. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1275869 | 2012-05-17 07:16:00 | I flew back over night from Perth last night. The guy behind me dropped something down the side of his seat and couldnt find it in the dark ....so he lit his lighter as a light source. I woke to find that flickering yellow/orange light reflecting under my seat. For a moment a very short moment I thought I'm FXXxXXd Then his neighbour had a quiet forceful and very short conversation with him.. A. |
afe66 (13778) | ||
| 1275870 | 2012-05-17 07:30:00 | driver sat there in his car at a pump, petrol going in, window wound down, smoking Rather unlikely, it's not the fluid that ignites, it's the fumes, and if he had got out and walked over to it with the smoke then I'd run. But in the car, pretty unlikely. Having said that I extinguish my smokes before entering petrol stations. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1275871 | 2012-05-17 08:20:00 | Something to do with the already burnt cigarette not containing enough heat to ignite the petrol. It's the fumes you have to watch out for. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1275872 | 2012-05-17 08:28:00 | Years ago on my way home from work, while stop at the lights I saw one of my work colleagues filling up his car...with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He did turn up at work the next day. | wmoore (6009) | ||
| 1275873 | 2012-05-17 08:33:00 | How the HELL he got a lighter on the plane is a concerning question. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1275874 | 2012-05-17 09:08:00 | How the HELL he got a lighter on the plane is a concerning question. Yes, I agree, omg! lighters are a completely forbidden item on any aircraft! I personally would be very concerned if someone had a lighter on any plane I was in! LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1275875 | 2012-05-17 09:47:00 | There was a time, not so long ago, when it was considered perfectly safe, and even PC to smoke in an aircraft. The biggest danger then was considered to be corrosion to the cabin air discharge system, caused by nicotine caking the vents. No aircraft fell out of the sky because of people lighting their cigarettes. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
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