Wet'n'Dry Shop Vac
2002 Honorable Mention
Confirmed True by Darwin
(15 October 2002, Washington) Gasoline is a dangerous substance. You're apt to win a Darwin Award if you stick a road flare in a puddle of gas, check the fuel level in a gas can with a cigarette lighter, or set ants ablaze with it. Now, a new way to get in trouble with gasoline has been discovered!
Firefighters summoned to a Woodinville home arrived to find twenty-foot flames shooting out of two Chevy Astro vans. After quelling the gasoline-fed blaze with water, dry chemicals, and foam, they questioned the man responsible for the incident.

Turns out that our Honorable Mention winner decided to siphon gasoline with an electric wet'n'dry shop vac. Amazingly, he had managed to collect and transfer an entire bucketful of gasoline before an electrical spark ignited the fumes.

A safety spokesperson said, "This was an accident wafting to happen."



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"It is imppossible to make anything truly foolproof becuse fools are so ingenious." - one of Murphy's Laws

strange people does strange things.

<font color=FF6600> WoW! [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img] Some people are morons... </font>

the man's still alive and capable of reproduction, so it shouldn't count as a Darwin

That's the why it's simply an honorable mention:

If you make something idiot-proof, someone will make a better idiot [img]smile.gif[/img]