CallPhones at petrol Stations

[MadDuck]

..... got an email today via Head office (Fletcher Distribution - they big on OSH for obvious reasons) about the incidents of cell phones ringing at petrol stations and while people filling their cars. i.e. cars have caught fire. Some statement issued by BP Wellington.

Has anyone heard anything along these lines? Was wondering how that works when bikers turn up with cellphone in pocket or in backpack and fill the bike.

[wkid_one]

Big thing in the states - if you look closely most service stations have a sign up prohibiting the use of cellphones on the forecourt.

Funny thing is - the car that starts right next to you filling your tank up is more likely to ignite the fumes than your phone.

Maybe they should all make us push our cars and bikes off the forecourt before starting them?

[Skyryder]

Did a quick internet search. These are the first three links thatI came across.

http://www.techimo.com/newsapp/index.pl?photo=10975

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/gasphones.html

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/8885.shtml


I carry my cell phone 'on' when I am filling. I think the prudent thing to do if your cell phone rings when filling is shut the pump off and walk away a few metres to answer it. Keeps everyone happy.

Skyryder

[MadDuck]

hmmmm well there ya go. Two of NZs biggest corporates got sucked in by the internet and fake stories.

The lesson is - now lets see! Dont believe everything you read?

Thanks Skyryder I will have fun on Monday

[Redstar]

how about you set your phone on vibrate mode and stick it in your undies that way no one will know it was you that blew them all up and your last experience will have been a pleasant one

[MadDuck]

hahahahaha..ok Redstar. Let me know next time you at Mobil Red Beach to fill up and I will give it a go

[James Deuce]

We've been here before.

IF you drop a cellphone and the battery connection shorts, it may start a fire.

The chance is slimmer than junior in the car next to you flicking the parental unit's lighter on and flinging it out the window.

After the last thread I had a stand-up argument with a 12 year old attendant at a petrol station that not everything you see on the Internet is true, when my wife rang me and I answered.

[Skyryder]

how about you set your phone on vibrate mode and stick it in your undies that way no one will know it was you that blew them all up and your last experience will have been a pleasant one

CNN) -- A 16-year-old California girl suffered second degree burns Thursday when her cell phone caught fire in her back pocket, according to the Ontario Fire Department. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/01/exploding.phone/

Year right.

Skyryder

[Bob]

Over here in the UK/England, the attendants are ordered to make an announcement over their public address system to tell people to turn their phone off if they start using it. If they don't, then the attendant is supposed to turn off their supply of fuel.

Far as I know, it is the risk of dropping the phone and risk of electrical fire.

Classic one recently? In petrol station filling up, when man drives in, starts filling up and then gets on the phone. Tannoy announcement made. So he starts telling the person on the other end of the 'line' how he has to end the call and starts chatting about how silly it is! Next tannoy announcement "End the call NOW, or we will stop the petrol supply and call security".

Oddly enough, call ended abruptly... prat.

[600ss]

been in the fire service 8 years full time never been to a fire on a forecourt caused by cellphone .......caused by stupidity maybe but not cellphones