on a lighter note...

[WAB]

In the 50's - 60's I remember on several occasions family members (1 time my mother in her nightgown in the morning returning from driving me to high school with charts) running out of gas. Walking to the gas station and paying $5.00 refundable deposit for a rectangular sheetmetal 1 gallon can (same type we would get paint thinner (mineral spirits) in. Sometimes with a spout, sometimes without. Walk back to the car with a gallon of gas. If no spout about half would spill onto the ground. Drive to the gas station and return can and get deposit back in cash or gas. My dad would drive across the street to another station to purchase gas for 1 cent per gallon less! $0.34 instead of $0.35 per gallon. If there happened to be a "gas war" occurring it dropped to $0.30 per gallon.

Back in the day I ran out of gas coming home from duck hunting. The stores can didn’t have a spout so I took the barrel off my shotgun and used it. That gasoline cleaned the barrel up real nice!

 

[jpr9954]

Changing the subject a bit with a true no shit story.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avwdq/us-america-customs-cow-dung-cakes-india-covid

 

[JimP]

Back when you were kids did you ever make the rounds to the closed service stations and drain the hoses that were connected to the pump?

You had to find the ones that didn't use padlocks on the pump handle but there were enough of them that we used to make a pretty good haul of gas in a couple of hours. We did get chased off a couple of times.

 

[spike.t]

Man, I used to run oil refineries and I’ve seen some good fires, but these folks are setting up for something really special!

Some of the videos I have seen from people taking fuel from crashed tankers in different countries here is unbelievable.....and some of the end results aren't too good .....but strangely enough no plastic bags in sight.....

 

[Newboomer]

Man, I used to run oil refineries and I’ve seen some good fires, but these folks are setting up for something really special!

They breed and vote. Holy Shit!!!

 

[Sand Rat]

Changing the subject a bit with a true no shit story.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avwdq/us-america-customs-cow-dung-cakes-india-covid

They sell them on the side of the road everywhere in India. Pic from 2019.

 

[BourbonTrail]

You gotta be kidding!
can you imagine the mushroom cloud when two of those come together?
Which reminds me, just last week I watched car get rear-ended at a stoplight by a dump truck. What if?

Two words: Ford Pinto

 

[davsel]

Gas-hoarding woman suffers burns after her car bursts into flames

Jessica Gale Patterson, 28, was driving through Pickens County in her white Pontiac G6 on Thursday night when an officer attempted to stop her over a stolen license plate.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A gas-hoarding South Carolina woman has suffered burns to her body after her car crashed and burst into flames while she was fleeing from police. Her burning vehicle is pictured

On Thursday, gas hoarding caused another vehicle to go up in flames in Florida.

A silver Hummer, which was parked by a gas station in Citrus County, had four 5-gallon fuel cans in the back when it exploded

 

[Dr Ray]

Gas-hoarding woman suffers burns after her car bursts into flames

Jessica Gale Patterson, 28, was driving through Pickens County in her white Pontiac G6 on Thursday night when an officer attempted to stop her over a stolen license plate.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A gas-hoarding South Carolina woman has suffered burns to her body after her car crashed and burst into flames while she was fleeing from police. Her burning vehicle is pictured

On Thursday, gas hoarding caused another vehicle to go up in flames in Florida.

A silver Hummer, which was parked by a gas station in Citrus County, had four 5-gallon fuel cans in the back when it exploded

Yikes

 

[BRICKBURN]

 

[spike.t]

Jeez.....

 

[Randy F]

It was never a question of “if”, just “when”.

 

[Boyd Brooks]

I only had a $10,000.00 budget for my new deck. Isn’t it a beauty!

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[jpr9954]

They sell them on the side of the road everywhere in India. Pic from 2019.
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I wonder if it was for good luck or to be used as heating fuel like buffalo chips.

 

[Newboomer]

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All set for the big flood.

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[Firebird]

 

[jpr9954]

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Coming back from the SHOT Show last year, this turned into a reality. It was late January 2020 and we had a number of Chinese passengers on the flight and one got sick. Our plane was met in Baltimore by emergency services and we waited half an hour while the sick passenger was removed. They took him to the hospital to test for "novel Coronavirus". Supposedly, he was negative but we did make the NBC Nightly News.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...-plane-at-bwi-amid-coronavirus-scare/2204109/

 

[jeanes]

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$1.79 gas and some mean tweets would go well right now.