Freezing Weather

[kev2471]

Two Idiotic Reactions to Freezing Weather:
[Don't try these at home]

1) This is a true story about John Porter, from New York State, USA, whose pipes in his home froze one winter. Anxious to unfreeze them, Mr Porter backed his car up to an open window so that the exhaust would warm up the house.heat a two-gallon can of petrol

A little while later and Porter, his wife and their three children had to be rushed to hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.:licker:

2) George Gibbs, from Columbus, Ohio, suffered second-degree burns on his head. This is what happened one freezing cold winter morning. Unable to start his car, George diagnosed the problem as a frozen fuel line which he thought he could correct by running warm petrol through it. He then tried to heat a two-gallon can of petrol on his gas stove in the kitchen. Ah.....
:Angryfire

 

[snp-g]

Darwin Theory in action.

 

[miggy]

That reminds me of a dodgy gas fitter that installed my parents kitchen appliances. A week after it was done we could smell gas so called the gas fitter back. He checked for a gas hob leak with a lighted match. That was a very frightening true story unfortunately.