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30 Mar 12
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Silly tart, you don't have to let it breathe.
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Cooker was on....hand on heart....any of us could have made the same mistake...
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de-silly-cant!
As they say dahn sarf. |
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Perhaps, just once, on this occasion she could have been given special privilege to leave the kitchen.
Seriously though, bloody awful thing to happen, but common sense? Genuinely a victim of the official suggestion to panic buy, and store jerrycans at home. The fire brigade said that was a stupid idea, and now this womans paid the price for the rest of her life. Tragic. |
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Yes, very fuelish behaviour.
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She octane-o better
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No-one four star to do it
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She lives in Moorgate one of the the most affluent streets of massive traditional detached homes in York.
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Sky News are 'live at the hospital' - jeez they are shameless
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And theres a petrol station 300 yards from end of road.
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but all is not lost - a nutter has managed to get in shot, sort of being wrestled away by a minder.
was waiting for the reporter to take a knock |
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Woman transferring petrol in her kitchen with the cooker ON!!
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gas coker even
naked flame  |
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She didn't have a jerrycan (all sold out) so she saw a couple of containers and thought diesel do.
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The founders of the Darwin Awards might as well set up shop in Yorkshire imo.
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She feels super apparently.
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There is very little to laugh about in this sad event. There are many people, especially women and youngsters, who would have absolutely no idea of the volatility level of petrol. It is something they will never have experiencd. That probably holds true for many of the male population, as well.
I don't know what has happened in this case, but they will have been lucky not to lose the house!  |
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Was advised to do so by Francis Maude,apparently.
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There's a great bit on the report from her 86 yr old neighbour "i was in the garden having a nice cup of tea when i saw smoke coming from next door,i though oh they must be having a brbecue with the weather so nice,then i saw a woman on fire"
I know ya shouldn't laugh but how can anyone be so grossly stupid |
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thats wot happens if you marry a budist monk
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the silly piece of advice Maude gave before-caught her out
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At the end of the day....................I go with "naydam"
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Yes, I rated Naydam's reply five star
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At least the daughter showed some common sense...she waited in the garden while her mother filled a jerrycan for her next to a gas cooker.
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The stupidity shown by the public recently has been amazing.
some of the fools queue up for petrol that is not running out and then they decide to pour it out in front of a hot oven. |
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Imagine if the goverment says that theres going to be a ban on "sex"
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Or if their was going to be food shortage, the lemmings would go crazy.
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Fair play to the public, the media can whip them up into a frenzy about anything (millennium bug, swine flu, WMDs, banks going under, no existent strikes) and they will still believe the next one.
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You have to laugh at the headlines in the papers, along the lines of total panic to the petrol shambles.
All that happened was that the demand was greater to what they had in stock. The government seen as villain in this frenzy only honestly advised that having some petrol in reserve for an emergency would be a decent idea. |
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poor woman ,hope she eventually recovers in time - but you really do get some daft people - surprised more accidents don't happen similar to this
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Saying "fill a jerry can" means "tip it from a tub into a jug in the kitchen with the gas hob lit" does it?
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Fuel sales up by an enormous amount right at the end of the financial year?
Haven't we done well? G&Ts all round |
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naydam 30 Mar 12 15:27
There is very little to laugh about in this sad event. There are many people, especially women and youngsters, who would have absolutely no idea of the volatility level of petrol. It is something they will never have experiencd. That probably holds true for many of the male population, as well. I don't know what has happened in this case, but they will have been lucky not to lose the house! ShockedSad i agree that there is nothing particularly funny about this. but anyone who has ever visited a petrol station cannot have missed the clear no smoking, no naked flames signs. your defense of her foolishness is the same as defending someone who puts a toaster in their bath with the intention of heating of the water. one of the unpleasantries in of all of this is the failure of the likes of Karl Turner to see the irony in his calling for Maude to resign. the woman's tragedy has been ruthlessly and cynically hijacked for political ends. |
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ruthlessly and cynically hijacking something for political ends is what politics is all about, particularly so over the last two decades. Hence the success of lawyers (Blair and Howard) and media types (too many to mention) - both of which are adept at arguing any issue from either side at any time.
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kinda inconsiderate setting yourself on fire with petrol that in short supply tbh.
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The problem is that the (bad) advice was given by somebody who would also have no comprehension of handling petrol in a domestic environment.
She was doing her daughter a favour by giving her some petrol for her car. They would have had no idea whatsoever about vapour. How could they? Boiling a kettle is probably the limit of their hazard knowledge. Hopefully, many more of the population will learn from this, and not dabble in areas which they know nothing about. Doubtful, though. |
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i agree with your initial post naydam.
though if proper handling of petrol isn't already a prerequisite for a driving license, it should be. |
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Naydam,
I think something that we British are very good at appreciating is that something can be tragic and funny at the same time. Blackadder Goes Forth is a fine example of this - many of us found it to be hilariously entertaining, yet of course the First World War was a horrific example of humanity at its worst. I'm always doing stupid, absent-minded and dangerous things, and if I die or end up horribly injured from falling down a manhole, mixing up the stapler and the telephone etc. I give the world my full permission to take the p*ss out of me mercilessly on Internet forums. There's so much unavoidable tragedy in the world anyway that a) when someone does something as silly as this you kind of have to shake your head at it, and b) ultimately it all comes down to laugh or cry, and I vote for the former. |