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carwash attack !

2005 Reader Submission
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This story happened in a district called Forest, city of Brussels in Belgium. A man stop at a gas station and proceed to fill his car tank up. Unfortunatelly he made a mistake and filled the car with gas instead of diesel fuel. A diesel car cannot run on gas, you will blow your engine away. Actually he realised his mistake before he started the car. A few meters away there was a selfservice carwash, so the man pushed his car to the vaccum cleaning place and put the vacuum cleaner hose in the filling opening of his car. Having done so he introduced coins in the machine and the vacuum cleaner started. It exploded, and the car along, as soon as the gas reached the electrical engine. The man, the car and the vacuum cleaner all died (almost instantly) on the spot...

Submitted on 10/09/2005

Submitted by: gerry
Reference: la derniere heure, 2005

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James said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I like the story, and you posted a reference, but could you possibly give us a link to the actual article (even if it's in French or Flemish?)...A link to verify this, and I think we may have a Darwin Award candidate! BTW I say DA because the fellow could have easily gotten someone from the gas station to help him. My guess is that a fatal dose of male pride intervened (better dead than embarrassed, I suppose! :-)

Jack said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I'm not entirely happy with this story for some reason, but I'll agree with James. Can you please give us a URL? Thanks.

Greg said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I'm PAing it awaiting an article. I could search the archives, but any articles will be in either Flemmish or French in all probability, so I won't be able to read them!

Sheryl said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I'm putting this in PA too, mainly because of the lack of a link to an article. I'm not happy with the story either, I'm just not entirely sure that the vacuum would explode. More details please.

Tracy said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I have searched, but cannot find a verifiable link - please give us an URL to accept this as a DA

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