Posted on 01/26/2015 8:44:56 PM PST by aimhigh
The Register-Guard reports Daniel Rowlett is seeking $13 million. He says Walmart sold him a plastic can produced by Blitz USA that exploded as he poured fuel into a burn barrel in October 2013. He suffered burns over nearly half his body.
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No, you only have to take yourself out of the reproductive gene pool prior to reproducing. In other words, become sterile/infertile prior to having any kids.
See comment #21.
PSSST!! Hey Slings! Over here!!
Since he lived, he can’t win Darwin award.. I think best he can get is honorable mention.
Not so, it depends on whether he can still have kids. See comment #21.
1. Pour first, then light.
2. If necessary, douse barrel, refill, then relight.
Important safety tips, you betcha.
Oh, the STUPID! It burns. burns, burns. . .
Dont use gasoline to light a burn barrel. Are people nuts? Use a combustible liquid like vegetable oil with a wick material like newspapers. Safer, cheaper, works better.
I have a lot of 5 gallon gas cans and the only ones that I can actually use are two old ones from about 20 years ago. All of the newer ones are so “safe” and do such a great job of preventing air pollution that it’s impossible to empty them, except into a large funnel, which is a pain in the butt.
How timely. I’ve got this ancient, i.e. decades old, gas can which has developed a problem. It’s an EAGLE brand, and labeled as “The Gasser’, which I never even knew all these years until I looked at it for online reference.
The thing is, it had this little rubber button to press to allow pouring from the screw-on rubber hose spout, and somehow this button went missing. I think I must have knocked it off while stowing my snow shovel, but it’s still a mystery because I can’t find any evidence of it anywhere in the vicinity.
So, I looked online at the EAGLE 2 1/2 gallon offerings, and they are grotesque. Somebody didn’t like this button arrangement, and the offering now is of a spout which hangs down like a big nose, and you pour out of a wide mouth into this spout, which is vertically attached to the can. What could go wrong? A wide mouth pouring into a narrow top of an awkard spout which must be somehow aimed into the receptacle, in my case the lawn mower gas cap opening. I don’t even want to think about it.
But I still have this open hole in my gas can, which I temporarily remedied with a custom plug fashioned from a wooden dowel. I’m thinking I can get a sheet metal screw and a flexible washer which will seal the hole, and which I can loosen to allow pouring. A little more demanding than the button, but I don’t have to do it very often.
Please don’t report me.
Doesn’t he at least qualify for a Darwin Jr. badge?
I mean, it WAS a heck of an effort.
This is why we can’t have nice things... such as an effin’ simple spout tube that doesn’t have safety triggers and springs and lovers that all don’t work spill gasoline ecerywhere, take 2 people to operate and soak you with gasoline.
The reason for those new spouts are retards like the subject of the article...see my post above.
Sue everyone for punitive damages!
targeted by trial lawyer slugs
yes
The screw on vent cap went missing from one of my dad’s old plastic gas cans... had the same thread as the flip top cap off a hot sauce bottle. It’s been there for 20 years... because you need not unscrew it to vent the can when filling the tractor... just flip up the cap. The metal Eagle cans though... that have that chintzy plastic loopy thing with the plug... those eventually get broken.
I ripped the guts out of the spout of my new plastic 5 gallon can. Works fine now.
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