Gas Station MORONS

[Munkie]

Mythbusters busted the "cell phones and gas pumps = kaboom" theory.

Cellphones and gas pumps

Poor Buster...

[Andara Bledin]

No, taking a ridiculous argument to its logical conclusion. Straw man would be if I said you're saying that people should light fireworks while filling up.

Actually a straw man argument is taking a statement by the other side, making any fundamental change, no matter how minor, and then presenting the new idea as if it were analogous to the original idea for the purpose of it being struck down.

Original idea: An event that is remotely possible has never happened to anyone on the planet.

Changed idea: An event that has happened to other people, but never happened to one particular one.

If you break them down, you can see that they are not the same concept at all, and thus the second statement really has no bearing on the first one.

Humans love worrying about things. Otherwise we wouldn't make up so many silly things to worry about. Like swimming after eating. Stomach cramps have never happened, but people will still warn you not to swim right after eating or you'll drown.

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[Willis]

Just had a moron earlier this afternoon. Not long, just mid length. Might be uninteresting to some of you, I just feel like ranting because of this SC.

SC=Chevy Blazer
Not so sucky=Some pickup truck

I picked up a friend and we were going to get something to eat and relax. I stop at the gas station near his complex and it was kinda busy when I got there but a couple of pumps were open. This is one of those one way gas pump stations and this lady was in the second one. I didn't think she was a SC because I just figured that someone was in front of her and had left shortly before I pulled up.

Since my gas tank is on the driver side, I had to k-turn and backup. No big deal since I'll be facing the correct direction anyways. As I'm doing this SC comes in front of me semi taking up room for me to maneuver. I mean he could have waited 5 secs and he wouldn't have looked like an ass. I continue to back up, and go inside to pay. SC comes in seeing a FORMED line and just kinda stands to the side near the front. I was the 3rd person with others behind me by that time. The door was jarred open and he's just ranting and raving to his friend outside in the passenger seat about how waiting in line is stupid and he's gonna "just go to the front." Everyone, all of us men, just kinda looks at him and he decides it might be a good idea to just wait like everyone else. Afterwards I go pump my gas and get ready to leave.

Not so sucky customer waiting in his truck arrived on the scene. This guy sees me trying to leave and he starts backing up towards the pump before I can even get started. I figure he was just trying to claim his spot before anyone else tried to but wasn't being overbearing. There was people pulling into the driveway forming a line in the right lane of the adjacent street so I gave the guy the benefit of the doubt. People here will take advantage of a scenario like that in a heartbeat. So, I maneuver around to his left so no one can take the spot and everything is cool.

As I'm leaving and am the 1st car in the down slope of the opposite driveway (every entrance is pretty much one way), SC comes barreling out from the other end. He speeds to the end of the corner, does a k-turn so I decide to drive around him since I wouldn't be anywhere near him as he went on his way back into the gas station lot for whatever reason. The reason I did that was because he'd be to the far left and me the far right and things can keep on moving. As I'm doing this he drives forwards right towards me, glares at me, backs up and holds his hand out as to say wait with a very smug look on his face when he saw it was me from before and proceeds to go back the opposite direction, the right. My left, his passengers' right. When he did that he kinda stopped for a moment. Both of our windows were open and I just said "you're good don't tell me to wait with your hand since you don't know what that means." He was going into the exit btw. He didn't say a word and just looked forward after I told him that. I had the feeling he did that k-turn on purpose since I *had* to do one to get to my pump. I was in the station before him doing my k-turn when he came barreling in.

As I left, the gas station was PACKED to the brim with lines forming from traffic at every entrance with blinkers on for the gas station. If he went back for gas I know he must've waited a while unless he cut somebody.

[edible_hat]

Mythbusters busted the "cell phones and gas pumps = kaboom" theory.

They did it wrong though, they didn't even mention the actual theory that is the real reason why transmitters should not be used near petrol pumps. The closest they got was in the revisit (which they still got wrong) when they said something about a piece of metal near the phone.

Original idea: An event that is remotely possible has never happened to anyone on the planet.

We don't know for sure that it's never happened.

Changed idea: An event that has happened to other people, but never happened to one particular one.

I've never heard of people electrocuting themselves by climbing power poles.

But to keep you happy... no human has died of aardvark flu, so we should go around kissing sick aardvarks.

Stomach cramps have never happened, but people will still warn you not to swim right after eating or you'll drown.

Stomach cramps from swimming right after eating has happened to me! Obviously I didn't drown though.


ETA: whaddaya know, it actually has happened: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in617547.shtml

[Andara Bledin]

ETA: whaddaya know, it actually has happened: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in617547.shtml

You should check out Snopes. They debunked that one, too. The Fire Marshall said specifically, that the cell phone was not the cause.

Actually, one should never take "breaking" news reports as gospel for any event. In the rush to be first and most sensational, they're often full of mis-information and incomplete facts.

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