So this guy put a little gasoline in his washing machine

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So this guy put a little gasoline in his washing machine

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http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S16722.html?cat=1

St. Paul man's washing machine explodes

A St. Paul man is thankful to be alive after his washing machine exploded this morning in his basement.

Glenn Johnson, of St. Paul, put gasoline in his machine to clean some greasy clothing. Johnson says he's done this for 25 years to break up grease stains.

He puts detergent, water and a little gasoline together and after what happened this morning, he says he'll never do it again.

"I've done it a hundred times before," Johnson tells 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. "This is the first time it ever exploded on me."

Johnson is a mechanic and says it's a trick his father taught him years ago. He was only supposed to use a little bit of gasoline however, he admits he may have overdone it.

The St. Paul Fire Department says after he put the gas in the washing machine, the vapors dispersed through the building. Then they found an ignition source, probably the hot water heater.

Johnson said he saw a ball of fire coming up from the drain and hit him directly on his body. It burnt both of his legs and the force of the blast blew him out of the laundry room.

Dazed, Johnson says he got up and went back into the laundry room to put out the fire, neighbors called 911.

Warnings are printed all around the washing machine about putting flammable materials the machine. When 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS asked Johnson about the warnings, he said he had no idea they were there.

Now, Johnson said that is the last time he will do that, and he says he's learned his lesson the hard way.

Johnson works on the transmissions of cars throughout his yard, which neighbors consider to be eyesores and would like removed. They hope the landlord will make some changes.
 
He's the reason hair shampoo bottles say "For External Use Only".
He'll hire a lawyer and sue the machine manufacturer and gasoline company.
 
And of course the only reason the lawyer will waste his time on the case is because juries all to frequently get made up of people without a single brain cell between them. All they can do is "feel", and if the plaintiff puts on a good enough sob story, they feel sorry and want to give him something to make it all better. They can't deal with multiple syllable words like "responsibility", "consequences" or "predictable". Small group liberals in action.

Ken
 
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KMaurer said:
And of course the only reason the lawyer will waste his time on the case is because juries all to frequently get made up of people without a single brain cell between them.
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My wife once was in a jury pool for a personal injury case. They asked her what her profession was... "Mechanical Engineer". "Dismissed!"

On her way out she talked to another person who got rejected... Her profession? Physical therapist.

Pretty damn stupid to let the lawyers exclude all the people who might have a clue from the jury pool... [rolleyes] (note I'm not dinging on you, Keith, Darius, Jesse - if you can do it, I understand why you do it... but the legal system should be structured to not allow that kind of "tweaking" the jury so you can get the most stupid jury that doesn't have any knowledge of it's own on the subject of the case. )
 
Let me stand up for a certain amount of this sort of screening during voir dire. If a case depends heavily on evidence or testimony from a particular area such as mechanical engineering, then a qualified mechanical engineer on the jury could dominate the other members based on his or her beliefs about the case. An attorney rarely wants the case tried by a jury of one. OTOH, I agree that in most jurisdictions it gets done to a much greater extent than it should be.

Ken
 
So he uses gas to take the grease off his clothes. What does he do too keep his attire from smelling like a goddamn molotov cocktail?

Arrrr

-Weer'd Beard
 
I used to use gas to clean my hands when I was younger and working in my Grandfathers warehouse doing pipe and fitting work. It was great at getting grease off your hands and arms.

But, they never put it the wash.. Gas is also great for taking care of posion ivy. Pop the blisters and pour gas on them. Again, things that we did when we were young. Now I just use Ivy Dry.
 
JonJ said:
He's the reason hair shampoo bottles say "For External Use Only".
He'll hire a lawyer and sue the machine manufacturer and gasoline company.
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If he sued and I were on the jury I would want to see deomonstration...how much gasoline.....what was the ignition source....then the balst blowing his dumb @ss right out of the court room....

P.S. Gasoline is a great degreaser....as is that orange hand cleaner stuff you can buy at K-MArt...and kerosene
 
Weer'd Beard said:
So he uses gas to take the grease off his clothes. What does he do too keep his attire from smelling like a goddamn molotov cocktail?
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Eau d'hoppes??

Story reminds me of an idiot friend at high school: he wanted to see if there was any gas in his dad's car, so he took off the gas cap and lit a match to look inside. BOOM! He survived but was off school for 6 months while they rebuilt his face.
 
An old time version of the gasoline and the washer

click here to play the song while you read

Ma tried to wash her garden slacks but couldn't get 'em clean
And so she thought she'd soak 'em in a bucket o' benzine.

(chorus - get along home Cindy, Cindy, etc)


It worked all right. She wrung 'em out then wondered what she'd do
With all that bucket load of high explosive residue.

(chorus - get along home Cindy, Cindy, etc)

She knew that it was dangerous to scatter it around,
For Grandpa liked to throw his lighted matches on the ground.
(chorus)

Somehow she didn't dare to pour it down the kitchen sink,
And what the heck to do with it, poor Ma jest couldn't think.
(chorus)

Then Nature seemed to give the clue, as down the garden lot
She spied the edifice that graced a solitary spot,
(chorus)

Their Palace of Necessity, the family joy and pride,
Enshrined in morning-glory vine, with graded seats inside;
(chorus)

Jest like that cabin Goldylocks found occupied by three,
But in this case B-E-A-R was spelt B-A-R-E----
(chorus)

A tiny seat for Baby Bare, a medium for Ma,
A full-sized section sacred to the Bare of Grandpapa.
(chorus)

Well, Ma was mighty glad to get that worry off her mind,
And hefting up the bucket so combustibly inclined,
(chorus)

She hurried down the garden to that refuge so discreet,
And dumped the liquid menace safely through the centre seat.
(chorus)

Next morning old Grandpa arose; he made a hearty meal,
And sniffedthe air and said: `By Gosh! how full of beans I feel.
(chorus)

Darned if I ain't as fresh as paint; my joy will be complete
With jest a quiet session on the usual morning seat;
(chorus)

To smoke me pipe an' meditate, an' maybe write a pome,
For that's the time when bits o' rhyme gits jiggin' in me dome.'
(chorus)

He sat down on that special seat slicked shiny by his age,
And looking like Walt Whitman, jest a silver-whiskered sage,
(chorus)

He filled his corn-cob to the brim and tapped it snugly down,
And chuckled: `Of a perfect day I reckon this the crown.'
(chorus)

He lit the weed, it soothed his need, it was so soft and sweet:
And then he dropped the lighted match clean through the middle seat.
(chorus)

His little grand-child Rosyleen cried from the kichen door:
`Oh, Ma, come quick; there's sompin wrong; I heared a dreffel roar;
(chorus)

Oh, Ma, I see a sheet of flame; it's rising high and higher...
Oh, Mummy dear, I sadly fear our comfort-cot's caught fire.'
(chorus)

Poor Ma was filled with horror at them words o' Rosyleen.
She thought of Grandpa's matches and that bucket of benzine;
(chorus)

So down the garden geared on high, she ran with all her power,
For regular was Grandpa, and she knew it was his hour.
(chorus)

Then graspin' gaspin' Rosyleen she peered into the fire,
A roarin' soarin' furnace now, perchance old Granpa's pyre....
(chorus)

But as them twain expressed their pain they heard a hearty cheer----
Behold the old rapscallion squattinn' in the duck pond near,
(chorus)

His silver whiskers singed away, a gosh-almighty wreck,
Wi' half a yard o' toilet seat entwined about his neck....
(chorus)

He cried: `Say, folks, oh, did ye hear the big blow-out I made?
It scared me stiff-I hope you-un was not to much afraid?
(chorus)

But now I best be crawlin' out o' this dog-gasted wet....
For what I aim to figger out is----WHAT THE HECK I ET?'
 
Whether this moron harms himself is of no consequence; the important thing is that his idiocy harmed no-one else, such as burning down an apartment building.

The more tragic version of this all-too-common action is Mommy using gas/turpentine/paint thinner to clean the KIDS with - then the fumes hit the water heater pilot light (usually in a mobile home) with predictable results. [angry]
 
SiameseRat said:
[rolleyes] You know, if they can add fluoride to the water supply, why can't they add birth control, too?
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Too general.

Now if we required anyone receiving WICS, food stamps, etc. to be on NorPlant while receiving benefits, we'd be on to something.[wink] If you can't provide for those you already HAVE, you certainly should not be breeding more!


And gas is, at best, a mediocre solvent. It leaves behind a residue that naptha, paint thinner and - best of all - body shop prep solvents do NOT. All have the attendant fume flammability/explosion liabilities, however.[shocked]
 
Scrivener said:
Too general.

Now if we required anyone receiving WICS, food stamps, etc. to be on NorPlant while receiving benefits, we'd be on to something.[wink] If you can't provide for those you already HAVE, you certainly should not be breeding more!
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I like the way your mind works. [wink] Scrivener for President!
 
I will sometimes clean out a spot of grease with a little gasoline or brakecleaner and then put it in the wash.

Not a problem that way, although lately I've taken to using orange handcleaner with a brush to scrub out grease spots. It works well and doesn't smell so bad.
 
My grandma taught me to dab stains with Lestoil. Works really well. If you use too much it does get kinda stinky and you have to re-wash. Though without looking at a bottle of Lestoil I have no idea if it's flammable or not.
 
Scrivener said:
Now if we required anyone receiving WICS, food stamps, etc. to be on NorPlant while receiving benefits, we'd be on to something.[wink] If you can't provide for those you already HAVE, you certainly should not be breeding more!
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AMEN to that!
 
SiameseRat said:
My grandma taught me to dab stains with Lestoil. Works really well. If you use too much it does get kinda stinky and you have to re-wash. Though without looking at a bottle of Lestoil I have no idea if it's flammable or not.
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http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/products/msds/lestoil/lestoilconcentratedheavydutycleaner.pdf

Per said MSDS it reads as follows:

Stable under normal use and storage conditions. Do not store near flames or extreme heat.
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I'm guessing that means that it is. [wink]
 
Pilgrim said:
Ma tried to wash her garden slacks but couldn't get 'em clean
And so she thought she'd soak 'em in a bucket o' benzine.

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My mother-in-law often tells about how she and her sisters used to clean the collars on their dresses and their father's shirts with benzene. Then for some unexplained reason the septic system in their apartment (in Brooklyn) stopped working. Luckily there were three guys on the crew that came to clean out the tank, so that the other two could pull out the first guy who passed out almost instantly. [shocked]

Ken
 
Isn't benzine still the main ingredient in 'dry' cleaning?
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I'm not sure what solvents they use. What I do know is that whatever they've used in the past keeps my wife busy -- she cleans up hazardous waste sites.
 
Pilgrim said:
Isn't benzine still the main ingredient in 'dry' cleaning?
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I believe it's also an active ingredient in the old surplus WWII USGI bore cleaner that's out there. Be very careful with that stuff.
 
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