[bayourod]

He should have used a wet vacuum.

[Orange1998]

I think there is a Aggie Joke somewhere here.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

He should have used a wet vacuum.

I'm not sure that a wet vac could provide enough pressure to get the necessary flow rate of compressed air at the bottom of the hose, but you have the right idea that the air needs to be pumped down.

[JSteff]

"He should have used a wet vacuum."

Then there was the Darwin attemptee that makes for one of my favorite idiot stories.

A guy who was going to trade in a car did not want the dealer to get the almost full tank of gas. So the night before, while in his garage, he attempted to use a wet vac to get most of the gas out of his tank.

Well of course wet vac's use electricity and a spark set off the gas in his vac and his untraded trade. Being in a garage the garage also went up. So he not only lost the $10 worth of gas he didn't want the dealer to get but the car he was going to trade and a garage.

You gotta wonder what the guy was really thinking....