Idiot left his engine running. That could have accounted for something.

No deaths, no injuries.

Darwin fails yet again.

He got in and then got back out. He built up a static charge. It didn't have anything to do with the cell phone.

demanton: He got in and then got back out. He built up a static charge. It didn't have anything to do with the cell phone.

Peasant. A leather interior and anti-static all-weather floor mats could have avoided this.

If you live in a town called Versailles and you pronounce it "Ver-Sails" you deserve to DIAF.

/I mean seriously.

I Said: Ver-sails?

Not "Vers-eye"?

In NYC it's "HOW-stun". In Texas it's "Hyew-stun."

platkat: Sun God: I Said: Ver-sails?

Not "Vers-eye"?

In NYC it's "HOW-stun". In Texas it's "Hyew-stun."

wut?

SoHo is South of Houston Street.

GAT_00: Hau Ruck: Peasant. A leather interior and anti-static all-weather floor mats could have avoided this.

Discharging the static buildup by just touching the car the base part of the pump, anything but the handle could have prevented this.

Are you suggesting you should deliberately shock the shiat out of yourself by touching your car when you get out? Masochist.

I fail to see what the cell phone had to do with anything, subtard.

Ver-sails? Really?

both the reporter and the cop say "ver-sails", several times. Came in to plotz about this, leaving satisfied.

testaclese: If you live in a town called Versailles and you pronounce it "Ver-Sails" you deserve to DIAF.

"Ver-Sails," I would like to point out, is also the home of fark.com. The gas pump didn't explode from a static charge -- it was consumed by too much awesome.

For a moment, let's consider what the conversation he was having was like the moment the roof of his car set itself ablaze.

OnmyojiOmn: Ver-sails? Really?

NEWSFLASH: Most of the country knows fark-all about France or the French language. Or anything else.

Whatever. I'm moving to Big Sink Road.

In Ruston, Louisiana there is a street called Vienna. There, they pronounce it VYE-anna.

True storeh!

Sun God: platkat: Sun God: I Said: Ver-sails?

Not "Vers-eye"?

In NYC it's "HOW-stun". In Texas it's "Hyew-stun."

wut?

SoHo is South of Houston Street.


I mean the whole planet Houston.

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Busted

I've been through Versailles, Indiana, so I'm really getting a kick...

The real fun is if you're in the Omaha area. Papillion. "Pah-peel-lee-on" - complete with a butterfly on the water tower.

/Do they still not follow Daylight Savings in neighboring Switzerland county out there in Indiana?

Yep, ver-sails. See also Kaye-roe, Illinois.

Moscow, TN is just lucky as all hell that there's really no way to mispronounce "Moscow."

Sun God

I Said: Ver-sails?

Not "Vers-eye"?

In NYC it's "HOW-stun". In Texas it's "Hyew-stun."

I used to live on Houston Street when I was a student at Virginia Tech. One day I was walking about and some guy asked me how to get to "Howston" Street. I told him I never heard of it.

(They say "Ver-sails" in Pittsburgh, too. No I don't like it either but that's how it developed. The locals didn't name it since it was originally a township; it was probably named by some assclown cartographer in Harrisburg who probably never even visited the place but just sent a letter to the Slovak immigrant postmaster.)

Hau Ruck: GAT_00: Hau Ruck: Peasant. A leather interior and anti-static all-weather floor mats could have avoided this.

Discharging the static buildup by just touching the car the base part of the pump, anything but the handle could have prevented this.

Are you suggesting you should deliberately shock the shiat out of yourself by touching your car when you get out? Masochist.

That is why you touch the car with the upside of your arm, and not your finger.

doahart: demanton: He got in and then got back out. He built up a static charge. It didn't have anything to do with the cell phone.

THIS

THIS*THIS
heck, THIS^Infinity

The cop even said it was the getting in and out that caused the spark!

/ Subtard
// Wants the controversial greenlight

I stopped there once on my way to New Berlin.

testaclese: If you live in a town called Versailles and you pronounce it "Ver-Sails" you deserve to DIAF.

/I mean seriously.

Or maybe they can call their town whatever the fark they want? I grew up about an hour away from a "Ver-sails", knew that the french would pronounce it "Vers-eye", but didn't give a fark because I'm not a prick, and I know that all language isn't dictated by the way one country in Europe pronounces their syllables.

I'm sure if it were your goal in life, you could find a way to make your cell phone cause gas to ignite. It would take some modifications to the whole pumping gas whilel using a cell phone system, but if it were your goal, you could find a way. After all, there's plenty of electricity running through one of them, it just happens to be in a fairly shielded location that's not very oxygen rich.

First idea that comes to mind: Take the battery out, stuck the leads to your tongue and see if shocks you. Just makes sure your pumping gas and have your face right up in there.

Also, Bexar County, TX.

Bathia_Mapes says it wasn't the cell phone. DarthBrooks says it wasn't the static or the engine running.

Well, if it wasn't any of those things, how am I going to know who or what to blame when my car inevitably catches on fire at the gas pump?

demanton: He got in and then got back out. He built up a static charge. It didn't have anything to do with the cell phone.

sure it did, why do you think he got in and out?

Curse of the Goth Kids: Moscow, TN is just lucky as all hell that there's really no way to mispronounce "Moscow."

Moscow, Idaho is pronounced Mos-coe

Local news.

A thing happened on the police scanner last night. Yay, there's surveillance video! Let's go out and shoot the police tape where the thing that happened is no longer happening.

Assuming this story were newsworthy, a "reporter" would have found and interviewed the farking driver, for a start.

This had nothing to do with static charge, the engine was still running (burning fuel) That combustion spread to the fuel tank and caused he whole car to ignite.

That's why you're supposed to shut your engine off...

Subby is either one of the stupidest people on Earth, or a master-level troll. Or both.

Boise City, OK - Boise rhymes with Noise - like it should Idahoans!

Ambrotos: This had nothing to do with static charge, the engine was still running (burning fuel) That combustion spread to the fuel tank and caused he whole car to ignite.

That's why you're supposed to shut your engine off...

That doesn't make sense. How does that combustion not spread to the fuel tank while you are driving? Or are you saying the combustion ignited vapors surrounding the car?

Walosi: Curse of the Goth Kids: Moscow, TN is just lucky as all hell that there's really no way to mispronounce "Moscow."

Moscow, Idaho is pronounced Mos-coe

That's an acceptable pronunciation. It doesn't really matter, "Moscow" is a made up word anyway because apparently "Moscva" is too hard to pronounce.

Just like Munich, Cologne, Vienna and Nuremberg.

/we should go back to saying "Muscovy" IMO

Bathia_Mapes: And http://snopes.com/ anybody with above room temperature IQ said that's false. I'm calling bullshiat on this one.

FTFY