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it looks like he reaches for his phone and not a lighter.

if you google cellphone gas tank this video comes up a couple times
 
IIRC, I think he was going to answer a call on his cellphone. As he tried to get it out of his pocket, the gas vapours accumulating under the station roof exploded. He died three days later due to his burns.

Easy to come to judgement on someone when you only see footage on Youtube...
 
IIRC, I think he was going to answer a call on his cellphone. As he tried to get it out of his pocket, the gas vapours accumulating under the station roof exploded. He died three days later due to his burns.

Easy to come to judgement on someone when you only see footage on Youtube...
not a good idea to park that thing under a roof like that. its just a recipe for disaster, which ultimately cost the guy his life...
 
IIRC, I think he was going to answer a call on his cellphone. As he tried to get it out of his pocket, the gas vapours accumulating under the station roof exploded.
Mythbusters busted cellphones igniting gas vapours cos they just aren't powerful enough. Could maybe have been a torch though?

Since Darwin won in the end I guess we'll never know for sure.
 
You are looking at Europe's new settlers in action, poorly trained and underpaid night
workers often times without even legal papers, governement only works 9-5 right?

Oh, wait, was he checking the fuel level in the tanker with a lighter?

Xxxx, what was the quote from the Smokers' mothership live fuel gauge guy in Waterworld
before it blew up? "Oh, thank God it is all over!" or sumxxxx like that?
 
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