cheers DD
(Definately Dodgy)
Because in this case, it can be everyone in the near vicinity involved, not just the one with the phone.
The most potent explosive device yet invented, short of a nuclear weapon is the fuel/air bomb. So the potential exists for a really big bang.
Is it likely? No, not at all, as you have already said. It is highly unlikely but it is not impossible and the owners of the premises request that you don't use your phone on the forecourt
I may not be as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I always was.
Yeah, the reason for the ban is static electricity. The phone's not actually dangerous on its own. What can cause a fire is a mismatch between car upholstery (usually synthetic) and clothing. Wool over cotton clothes on synthetic car seat covers can really build up charge, I've got a few nasty shocks that way myself.
So: pull up, hop out, insert pump and latch handle down. Wait three min while fuel tank fills... hmm what to do? That's right, I'll check texts and messages. Driver's seat is right there so I'll hop back in again. Fabric rubs and builds up charge. Oh look, pump's done, go to pull the handle out - *spark*
Right at the interface between fumes and air.
It's rare (usually seen in the US, land of enormous gas tanks), but Mythbusters covered it a while ago and experimentally verified that while you need a few things to line up, low wind, warm air, etc etc, it can happen.
Yeah i get that. But even if i saw someone filling up and using their phone its on them. Im not some sjw who needs to go around telling people what not to do.
Another time i was filling up my car and my boy was holding the pump. The pump stopped and over the speaker a voice told my boy to step away and the filling would resume. When i went inside some clever little bitch explained to me the risk of petrol splashback and why kids arnt allowed near it.
First time i ever heard of this. But fine. If thats the rule okay. I just let it go and said nothing. But no this bitch had to continue and belabour the fucken point and explain the rules and risk and danger if petrol got in his eyes. So i unloaded on her. Not harshly but she got the point not to fucken lecture people on how to fill up when they had been doing it before they were even fucken born. Didnt feel sorry for her and zero fucks given. If theres some sort of rule fine politely explain there is and thats it. But dont push it.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Also if you dropped the phone really hard there is a chance of a spark. Another reason not to is the forecourt is fucking busy, who wants to be the cunt run over because he was checking his facebook while going in to get a pie?
Re the static build up, it is more common for women apparently as they are in and out of the car like lunatics grabbing children, make up, wallet etc whilst filling. Us blokes are more like to stand there contemplating life's mysteries or the women filling up next to us's arse which is bent over nicely as she reaches in for her wallet.
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