Posted by rgvtx on September 08, 2008 at 14:50:34 from (64.12.117.74):
Got this in an Email today. Interesting, but sad.
".. They Were Almost Finished With The Floor and The Shop-Vac Was Nearly Full of Gasoline When The Explosion Occurred ..." Does More Need To Be Said?
How can anyone so stupid live to be 56-years-old?
Carrol Laverne Uitermarkt, 56, and Ralph Touch of Prairie City, Iowa, decided that the best way to clean the basement floor was to pour gasoline on it and then suck the gasoline up with an electric powered Shop-Vac vacuum cleaner because we are all so stupid that we don't know we can use gasoline to clean floors and instead we use non-flammable cleaning fluid and a mop.
If only it was a spark of intelligence and not a spark of electricity ...
"... they were almost finished with the floor and the Shop-Vac was nearly full of gasoline when the explosion occurred. ...the explosion blew out the windows and bowed the walls and foundation. A property to the east was also damaged."
Touch who happened to be outside at the time was spared material injury, but Uitermarkt is severely burned and has miraculously survived the explosion.
And now the floor is all dirty again.
Des Moines Register (Iowa) 26-Aug-08 Click here for original story
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