fred@umcp-cs.UUCP (08/07/84)
From: anne@bmcg.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Message-ID: <1101@bmcg.UUCP>
. . . You can use gasoline with no problems for years, but one
day you drop a tool and it sets off a spark, or your friend
walks over and drops a cigarette on some spilled gas.
Anne H. Anderson
Then there's also the matter of spontaneous combustion:
Several years ago my brother was cleaning some parts with gasoline, in
the bathroom. (!!!) He scraped some of the gasoline soaked gook into
the toilet and when it stuck to the sides of the bowl, he sprinkled
some household chlorine-bleach cleanser onto it. *
He wasn't injured, but the heat of combustion shattered the toilet,
(Why don't they make those darned things out of Pyrex?) scattering
shards of porcelain around the bathroom. My mother's insurance company
paid what was probably one of the stranger claims they ever had.
- Fred Blonder
harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
* Readers are advised to not attempt this experiment at home.
P.S.: I also have a story about why you shouldn't DRINK gasoline,
but I'll save it for another time.