Now, near as I can gather this happens far less frequently as portrayed in Hollywood movies, but happens none-the-less. With such an intricate set of moving parts set around the combustion of some very volitile organic substances, it does not surprise me that something could inevitably fail, producing flames and smoke and what have you.
Now common sense would have you know that if your car begins to smoke, and you think it may have caught on fire, and you do not have the proper safety devices in order to extinguish the fire, you should do two things:
1) Park the car some place safe
2) Remove your self a safe distance until emergency personel are able to extinguish the blaze for you.
Our next idiot was able to do only one of those.
Now, I don't know about you, but should I ever start driving, and I suspect my vehicle is on fire, I would much rather pull my car into a crowd of Nuns and Orphans then pull it into an 8 pump gas station filled with people pumping gas.
Now let me just point out the stupidity in its full form. He didn't just pull into the gass station, he pulled into the centre pump... heres a map of our pumps: numbered for east reference-- x's making the location of the burning car, r's making the path he took into the lot...
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Street
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...r.......--------Fence-------------------
...r.......................................
...rrrrr...................................
.......rrrrrrrr............................
..............rrrr.........................
.........[--]....rr...[--]..................
.........1--2.....xx5--6..................
.........[--]......xx[--]..................
....................xx.......................
...........................................
.........[--]........[--]..................
.........3--4.......7--8..................
.........[--]........[--]..................
Thats where he left his burning car!
Once more, he didnt inform anyone his car was on fire... He just got out of his car, checked the hood to see that it was infact burning, and then started running down the street to safety.
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After the car was noticed to be on fire, all the pumps were turned right off (and powered down) and staff members ran from all directions with fire extinguishers...
I figured it was best left to the imagination, as I'm ot too sure how many of you watch the news, but we would have made it on the news had anyhting happened, and since we didn't, it would have been safe to assume nothing did...
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