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jminn1 wrote:Ya got me to! Good one.

And it's as dangerous to be yakking on a cell phone while pumping gas. Under some conditions, especially if you touch a grounded object while handling a cell, a small static discharge can happen. Gasoline vapors + small spark == boom.

Most gas pumps even have small stickers on them telling folks not to use their cell while pumping gas.

I see folks doing it all the time though. That's a ID==10T error waiting to happen.

Actually, the cell phone thing is not really ever been proven. While a piezo ringer was in the old phones, most new ones use speakers for their ring tones. Even the vibration motors are sealed, so the chances of the right fuel/air mixture being near them is slim to none, and slim left town. Static electricity is still the biggest risk for ignition at the pump. Here is a good test video https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/myth ... n-minimyth

I went to the quick stop down the road from me to buy some ginger ale last night because I was nauseated. So I walked up and saw these two police officers watching a woman who was smoking while pumping gas. I'm like 'look at this dumb person, what an idiot; and and with police right there too'!

So I go in and grab a 2 liter and while I was checking out I hear someone screaming. I look outside and that woman's arm was on fire! She was waiving her arm around arm just going crazy!

I ran outside and the police had put her on the ground and had put the fire out with an extinguisher. I go back in to get my soda and as I'm walking by realize the police had put handcuffs on her and were putting her in the police car.

So me, being the concerned citizen that I am (aka nosey), asked the officers what are they were arresting her for, figuring that smoking at the pump and catching her arm on fire would be punishment enough. Nope! One officer looked dead at me and said 'For waiving a fire-arm'!