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vacuum cleaner fireball

2015 Reader Submission
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It can happen to everyone - you picked the wrong gas pump at the station and instead of diesel the car is filled with gasoline. The German ADAC motor club solves this problem 5000 times a year.

It did also happen for two guys (34 and 35 of age) from Recklinghausen at a gas station in Herne. They filled in 40 liter of gasoline but they tried to solve it on their own. They first tried to suck the gasonline with the good old trick using a tube and their lungs. That did not work quite well so they fell for another plan - they pushed their Caddy van over to the industrial vacuum cleaner of the gas station. They connected the tube to the nozzle of the cleaner and switched it on. Now such a cleaner can get quite hot and when it started to suck in the mixture of air and gasoline it did what it had to do: it did explode in a nice fireball.

The cleaner does not exist anymore and the van and another Opel Astra were in flames. Three extinguishers did not help and the fire was only under control when the firemen arrived. The story has an interesting twist however when the local WDR tv station was interviewing the station tenant - the gas station's gasoline tanks are under the cleaner places and with a little more gasoline the guys could have made it for some international fame, as their last action.

As it happend, nobody was hurt and insurances will pay for the damage. Police is investigating for involutary inflammation.

Submitted on 02/22/2015

Submitted by: guido lexikos
Reference: 30.1.2015 Falsch getankt: Männer saugen Benzin mit Staubsauger ab

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
This seems convoluted enough and we don;t get too many stories like this, so I will vote HM!Thanks Guido!


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Unbelievable. Thanks, Guido!


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