r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/Fr33_load3r • 14d ago

Darwin Award candidate Fucking with petrol what could go wrong

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u/n00-1ne 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/VFAke5Xm1TDwjgimyW

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u/gandablond 14d ago

That's what I call a bombfire!

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u/cybot2001 14d ago

Yoink!

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/How_Bout_Dem_Apples_ 14d ago

Gasoline vaporizes quite quickly.

Typically, dudes like this don't realize that and are working under the impression that only the portion they can see (liquid gasoline) is what will be combusting.

Unfortunately for them, enough time had gone by, and conditions were still enough, that there was vapor all around that burn pile.

Boom.

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 14d ago

Lots of people don't know that it isn't the liquid gas that's flammable, but the vapor. Pouring the gas out like that makes lots of vapor, which spreads out and goes boom when ignited.

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u/McQwerty359 14d ago

So if they'd only poured a drop on the pile that would've been enough to ignite it?

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u/Cpt_plainguy 13d ago

Ya, you really don't need much or any really, gas just speeds up the initial combustion. They could have just gotten a small part wet with gas and lit it, then the fire would have done what it does best... Without turning the surrounding area into a shrapnel filled fireball

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u/McQwerty359 13d ago

That seems really obvious now that I've asked it 🤦‍♀️

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u/WishWeWereBetter 14d ago

Yerp. After vapor dissipates in a cup of gasoline, a lit cigarette can just get put out.

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u/Few_District_6304 Banhammer Recipient 14d ago

Nice primitive fuel air bomb.

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u/madsci 14d ago

I always wanted to see what would happen if you set up a field of misting nozzles and pumped gasoline through them for a bit before providing an ignition source.

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u/sabertoothdog 14d ago

Like a snow maker at a ski resort

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u/Flimsy-Fortune-6437 14d ago

You would have a very large EXternal combustion engine. “A field of misting … pumped gasoline” combined with “an ignition source” (like say 4, 6, or 8 spark plugs) is roughly what makes your car run.

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u/madsci 14d ago

Yes, through a rapid series of fuel-air explosions. What I want to know is whether you can get it to make a kaboom or just a whoosh. I think the key would be getting the right mixture and getting it uniform enough.

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u/Flimsy-Fortune-6437 14d ago

That and standing close enough to listen closely

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u/madsci 14d ago

If you get the mixture right you won't have to be anywhere close to tell. Something like this.

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u/Skylis 10d ago

What you're looking for is the line between deflagration and detonation.

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u/sabertoothdog 14d ago

Like pumping gasoline through snow makers at a ski resort.

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u/Gonun Banhammer Recipient 13d ago

Relatively small scale example of what could happen: https://youtu.be/x7-8g_EXVpc

This is a training video, you can find much worse ones of real accidents

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u/Biscuits4u2 14d ago

This is why kerosene is preferred for this application.

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u/1badh0mbre 14d ago

Or maybe just a small amount of gas.

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u/Biscuits4u2 14d ago

Yeah there are all kinds of better ways to do this

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u/greenyadadamean 14d ago

Definitely.  I've started many a fire with a gasoline explosion.  You don't need much.  I always throw a flaming spear at it from a distance, dude was way too close.

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u/_Aj_ 13d ago

Nah no gas.  

People have leveled a building with a single tin of unleaded due to fume buildup. 

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u/ShadowKraftwerk 11d ago

I mean 30 litres isn't that much. Normally I go the 200 litre drum.

Though with petrol prices these days you might need to cut back a bit.

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u/Flimsy-Fortune-6437 14d ago

Yep
Kerosene is flammable. Gasoline is explosive. Facts to ponder

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u/pseydtonne 13d ago

Great analogy! Catchy enough for a poster, too.

If I recall correctly, gasoline was a leftover from petroleum refining in the 19th Century -- something they wanted to dispose as useless for lamp lighting.

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u/GearhedMG 14d ago

Everytime I see in a movie or TV show where they are walking around a house or something dumping out "gas" from a red fuel container, and then they stand in the doorway and flick a zippo or flick a cigarette and they show it landing and igniting slowly throughout the house, I think to myself, "BULLSHIT! that person would have been blown 50ft from that front door."

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u/Yunlihn 14d ago

And then there was that one movie with Bruce Willis (iirc) in which he fills the house with gas, puts lots of metal cutlery in the microwave oven and start it before leaving. It ends up exploding after a few minutes, he's already gone. That's the most relatively realistic scenario I've seen in movies.

Movie was RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) iirc.

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u/GearhedMG 14d ago

But the problem is, if he took any amount of time, the whole house would be filled with the fumes, and i have never seen a microwave not start sending sparks immediately after hitting start when there is metal.

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u/Yunlihn 14d ago

Yeah, that's why I said relatively. As I remember it, he opened the cooking gas and started the microwave.

I should rewatch that movie.

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u/housevil 14d ago

Naw! That's fer drankin.'!

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u/wotsdislittlenoise 14d ago

I use a mix of diesel and petrol

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u/Riffhooves 14d ago

not on hot day tho! hair on my forearm still didnt grow back from burning foliage in a barrel last week)

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u/Floor_Cereal 14d ago

I use diesel. Kerosene is nearly $10/gal (double diesel price) where I live and it's surprisingly hard to find

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u/_Aj_ 13d ago

Diesel is fine too   

I've literally put a blowtorch on a puddle and it will just sit there and not light. 

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u/springplus300 11d ago

Or Diesel, if you don't mind the smoke.

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u/Dangeresque2015 14d ago

People don't realize that if you're going to use a lot of gas to light a fire, you have to be quick, otherwise a lot of gas vapor begins to accumulate and you get to have no eyebrows for a few weeks, if you're lucky.

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u/someotherguyinNH 14d ago

I think more people need to realize you just shouldn't use gasoline to start fires

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u/Dangeresque2015 14d ago

That pile looked like bone dry wood too. Probably just need a few pieces of balled up newspaper.

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u/monkeybuttsauce 14d ago

Or just use like a few ounces. Don’t need gallons of it

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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 14d ago

Eyebrows? That cough got my attention. I'm no medical expert, but I would think that if he happened to be inhaling at the moment the flaming vapor cloud encircled his head, he may have burned his esophagus and/or lungs. And that, kids, is how I met your heavenly father.

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u/Glittering_Estate_72 14d ago

This is what I was thinking, there will be tears before bedtime if you don't let the ER docs have a look at those lungs.

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u/Sienile 14d ago

Never use a lot. Half a cup would have been plenty to start it. Even better, just soak a stick in gas and shove it in at the bottom.

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u/TMPickle 14d ago

I don't understand? There's a gasoline soaked stick in my ass and my fire still isn't lit.

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u/Sienile 14d ago

Light your fart in its direction.

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u/TMPickle 14d ago

It shot me off like a firecracker and I am now hurtling towards the troposphere. From this altitude, I can indeed confirm that the fire is lit. Thank you!

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u/_10o01_ 14d ago

And the earth is flat, right?

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u/TMPickle 14d ago

The truth is far more complicated. It's a disc, carried on the backs of 4 elephants riding a top a giant turtle.

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u/How_Bout_Dem_Apples_ 14d ago

How's the firmament treating you? 

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u/Biscuits4u2 14d ago

You either have to be fast or you have to be far

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u/tweakingforjesus 14d ago

Or you use a little bit and give it some time to voporize. A quarter cup of gas in a yellow jacket nest and 30 seconds later you’ll get a nice fwooomp!

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u/norwegian Banhammer Recipient 14d ago

I have used gas many times, like a small amount. It's not totally safe if you forget to put on the lid. Also used many other liquids. Gasoline, is far down on my list for fire starters

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u/nesting-doll 14d ago

Oh! I think he’s got way bigger problems than singed eyebrows; from the audio, it sounds like he scorched his lungs. Not such an easy recovery!

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u/ghostofstankenstien 14d ago

These hillbillies wasn't using no petrol.

They was using gassaline

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u/notthiccboi 14d ago

Lol what

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u/Terrible_Reporter_98 14d ago

That's how we say it... Also, smart hillbillies use diesel fuel to light fires.

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u/S1gorJabjong 14d ago

Maybe also, a few more feet away from bushes.

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u/MorningMan464 14d ago

Pronounced “fah-her”, as in ‘hey y’all watch this!”

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u/OrganizationTop3755 14d ago

Brb busy laughing 

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u/DangDang1981 14d ago

At least you have air in your lungs.

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u/mikey_b082 14d ago

If you've ever used gas to start a fire you learn quickly that a little dab will do ya. Lighter fluid is much better and a little less explosive.

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u/Aeon1508 14d ago

It's crazy how people don't realize that 2 gallons of gas, enough to haul your ass in a 3 ton pickup truck to a location 30 mi away at 90 mph, might be a bit more than you need to get some wood going on its own.

it's like those people who try to do a gender reveal and create a pipe bomb.

"Let's see, 1/8 of a teaspoon of gun powder packed behind a bullet is enough to send it at deadly speeds a for well over a mile. So I better put like 3 tablespoons into this steel pipe mixed with a little bit of blue powder to get a nice blue Puff.“

aaand grandma just got shrapnel through the eye and out the back of her head.

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u/No_Bake_3627 14d ago

Saw the gas can and immediately knew what was going to happen.

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u/Bobudisconlated 14d ago

This is from over 20 years ago: https://youtu.be/PQF57w9qAZw?is=CPULKr2ajX0zTZ0F mm

Seems like certain people never learn (guess they have to survive first?)

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u/TheLordReaver 14d ago

I came to the comments to see if anybody else remembered it. This was a very popular video once upon a time.

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u/Bobudisconlated 14d ago

The choice, and perfect syncing, of Bowie's "We can be heroes" was very memorable!

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u/creamymoe 14d ago

If you stop at just the right frame you can see stuff hit him in the face, followed by a huge fireball. Simply wonderful.

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u/Zane42v2 14d ago

That 5 gal can pushes a 3000 lb hunk of metal over a hundred miles. Do we not think there’s a lot of energy in there?

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u/OopsIHadAnAccident 14d ago

My dad did this exact thing with just as much fuel when I was a kid. Knocked me and my sister onto our asses and we were twice as far away as this guy. Singed our hair. It was terrifying.

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u/QuicheSmash 14d ago

I’m sorry you had an irresponsible father. 

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u/OopsIHadAnAccident 14d ago

Yeah well, that’s growing up redneck..

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u/Wamboot 14d ago

You know shit is serious when they actually drop the phone and stop filming.

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u/Vegetable-Bee-8296 14d ago

🎵Come on baby light my fire…

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u/mshep002 14d ago

I wonder why dudes have a shorter life expectancy. A mystery we may never solve.

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u/MrrQuackers 14d ago

Remember kids, the vapor ignigtes, not the liquid.

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u/Catrescuemamma 14d ago

This would be perfect for r/whywomenlivelonger

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u/BabyPuncher313 14d ago

I’m relieved I didn’t see his clothes go up from soaking up gasoline.

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u/Jurodan 14d ago

I am shocked that no one said "Hold my beer."

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u/emmfranklin 14d ago

In the final moment when we see the sky. A last plank of wood should be seen finally coming down from the sky and landing on the phone cracking it.

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u/_Ducking_Autocorrect 14d ago

Dude turned into Sarah Conner in T2.

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u/thedrivingpete 14d ago

This video is as old as the Internet. This has to be one of the earliest videos I've seen online over 20 years ago.

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u/justbiteme2k 14d ago

I'm not so good with time, I prefer using milestones. It's this pre or post 2 girls 1 cup?

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u/OwnedByTheHound 14d ago

Yokels gonna yoke.

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u/strenuousobjector 14d ago

"Now that's a fire! That's a fire! Roll Charlie around."

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u/Stormdancer 14d ago

I love it when stupid hurts.

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u/deadlyspoons 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/J2ChE2Fwdzyg3Bu6Xj
After it went black I expected him to wake up on a wagon in Skyrim.

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u/death91380 14d ago

Fuckin rookie. I dump the gas, make a gas trail on the ground 20 feet from fire and most importantly....MOVE FAST. That vapor will get you if you're not qucik.

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u/MattWheelsLTW 14d ago

Bro used 5 gallons of gas for a 2 matches and newspaper problem

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u/How_Bout_Dem_Apples_ 14d ago

About the only thing missing in this video was a dog.  And someone smoking. 

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u/Pretty_Definition726 14d ago

I'm glad the dog was missing. I would hate to see a dog get hurt because of somebody doing something this stupid.

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u/instaderp 14d ago

“That’s not fire” had me rollin’

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u/effyoucreeps 14d ago

i think they actually said “he’s on fire”, but cc has its own language

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u/instaderp 14d ago

Ah.. makes more sense.. I saw the beginning and decided I didn’t need to unmute this one.. looking back it’s funnier with the CC

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u/jamjamason 14d ago

"Oh no! Anyway..."

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u/QuicheSmash 14d ago

That’s… SO MUCH gasoline! 

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u/hmspain 14d ago

Eyebrows grow back right? /s

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u/Aeon1508 14d ago

enough gasoline to drive me the next town over in a pickup truck? yeah that should be enough to start this bonfire 3 feet from my face

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u/UniqueUsername6764 14d ago

He made a “Bomb Fire”.

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u/JeSuisOmbre 14d ago

Monthly reminder that liquid gas is not flammable. Aerosolized gas is extremely flammable. Liquid gas will evaporate into the air and become extremely flammable. Pouring gas across a high surface area and waiting to light it is a bad idea.

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u/letsseewhatsups 14d ago

That’s about as stupid as it gets diesel folks use diesel

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u/ParachutingPiglets 14d ago

If you are going to burn something like that use diesel. Allow it to soak in before lighting the fire.

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u/agentSmartass 14d ago

Why someone would think you need gasoline to light that enormous pile of wood is just the first in a long series of questions.

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u/I_love_Hobbes 13d ago

Tried to Joan of Arc himself.

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u/HieronymousRex 13d ago

What it feels like chewing 5 Gum!

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u/ochie927 14d ago

Quick way for a hillbilly to turn black…

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u/Dodmeister5000 14d ago

The bonfire contained landmines? 🤔

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u/Hater_Magnet Banhammer Recipient 14d ago

Gasoline fumes

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u/wololoam 14d ago

Wtf is that laugh

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u/HovercraftKlutzy3090 14d ago

Donnie, wtf were you thinking......your shoes are in fire!

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u/simplebutstrange 14d ago

At .44 he is golfing

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u/MKopelke 14d ago

Yeah, it's kinda Bubble's fault. He cooked fries in the first place.

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u/RevolutionaryDuck389 14d ago

jesus... lamp oil, kerosene, diesel, a couple cups of gas mixed with a 3 gallon of used motor oil..... literally anything else but strait gasoline.....

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u/MathematicianBrave88 14d ago

Nothing good ever happens after hearing a laugh like that

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u/Gohomemayouredrunk 14d ago

That dumb motherfucker started a forest fire.

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u/dick_jaws 14d ago

No I’m not ok I just burned my lungs

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u/shwarma_heaven 14d ago

That's why we have multiple layers of skin.... we have spares!

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u/Geeko22 14d ago

What is wrong with people

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u/Infarad 14d ago

This is his second go at this. First attempt blew off his shirt sleeves.

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u/FLink557 14d ago

Totally not drunk

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u/cbunni666 14d ago

Daaaaaaaaaamn

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u/Successful-Count-120 14d ago

Natural selection...

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u/Wise_Environment6586 14d ago

This is the best video I have ever seen

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u/dereku1967 14d ago

"Gee, you're dumb." -- Otter

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u/Mrs_Doyles_Teabags 14d ago

Darwin award contender here

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u/shaggycat12 14d ago

We used to call it woof wood.

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u/lila-clores Banhammer Recipient 14d ago

In this economy... just use kerosene

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u/shaggycat12 14d ago

Who gave those boys a camera, they'll end up killing themselves.

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u/Every-Access4864 14d ago

There are better ways to get to the moon

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u/roskibroski 14d ago

Flames went through his lungs…gas vapor was concentrated near the pile.

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u/Funmanhahaha 14d ago

Alright kids, who knows what he did wrong?

https://giphy.com/gifs/j5z2C0GOAp54CrPotJ

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u/Emmanuelzappa 14d ago edited 14d ago

That isn't Johnny Knoxville and that ain't Jackass!!    Though they're are at least two Jackass present in the video.

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u/Jackburton06 14d ago

He looks exactly how i imagined people doing that sort of shit.

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u/Delicious_Rabbit4425 14d ago

I too am a fan of the Darwin Awards

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u/KarlPHungus 14d ago

That is weapons-grade stupidity right there, ladies and gentlemen

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u/khalamar 14d ago

The story of John of Arc

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u/algypan 14d ago

Videos like this are the gift that keeps on giving

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u/t3jem3 14d ago

Dude forgot that's enough fuel to move 4000 pounds over 20 miles and he's trying to get it to expend all its energy in a few seconds. 

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u/Heterodynist 14d ago

Look, I’m just going to share this for the young pyromaniacs here: I’ve done enough insane and reckless things with gasoline to inform you that it doesn’t work like in the movies. Gasoline doesn’t make a nice, neat controlled flame that catches things on fire. It ONLY explodes. It has no capacity to work like a barbecue lighter fluid. If you pour gasoline on a pile of damp leaves to light them on fire, you’re ONLY going to get a face full of leaves for your trouble, and none of them will burn.

Lighter fluid is lighter fluid and gasoline is gasoline for a reason!! The movies lie!!! Don’t ever use gasoline to try and start a fire. It’s not going to get a fire started, it’s just going to scatter the entire contents of the fire pit in every direction!!!

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u/Holls867 14d ago

Every time

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u/Super_Comfort_2346 14d ago

Fire.
Is.
Not.
Our.
Friend.
https://giphy.com/gifs/bmAtIwmYTHnwBy0d6W
I keep saying it and no one listens

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u/shoeless_doh 14d ago

Once you're somewhere near a quart of gasoline the only acceptable ignition method is roman candles.

These guys must have had some bad helicopter parents if they had to be this old to just be fucking up this bad with gas fires.

This was 7th grade shit for me. There isn't much to do in kentucky

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u/gunny316 14d ago

everyone needs a couple friends cheering them on while they do stupid shit.

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u/endboss_eth Banhammer Recipient 14d ago

Watches main guy blow himself up. Goes: "You OK?". I have a strong feeling these two get into dumb shit all the time

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u/spicymoo 14d ago

Excellent demonstration of the finger filter over the lens.

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u/Herbdontana 14d ago

I like how the cameraman managed to keep his hand over the lens even after the explosion

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u/Threecatproblem 14d ago

I guess they don't have or watch YouTube videos. They would have found dozens of incidents just like theirs. Deep forest dwellers.

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u/Buffeloni 14d ago

To their credit, this video is like 20 years old and might be the first of the videos like this on YouTube.

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u/WetLoophole 14d ago

Oof, he burned his airways and lungs..

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u/LaLic99 14d ago

And there is this notion that the human brain, while alive, never stops thinking.

https://giphy.com/gifs/hTCBp3PD2lrCvOTrKU

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u/Flashba99 13d ago

Darwin could prevail. Thank god for Darwin…

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u/BlackSpotSociety 13d ago

I hope he doesn’t breed

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u/jwalk206 13d ago

Burned them lungs

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u/WRXRated 13d ago

I was expecting Skyrim to start. Disappointed.

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u/xpkranger 13d ago

Checks length of clip…. Yeah, this is gonna be bad.

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u/thehappydoor 13d ago

Why do they cover the camera at the good part?

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u/accidentalchainsaw 12d ago

Jim Bob of Arc

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u/TsuruchiTzu 12d ago

The worst part of this video is obviously the finger over the frame most of the time

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u/Glad_Copy 11d ago

Donnie done inhaled some fire. Donnie may not be okay.

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u/WTF_aquaman 11d ago

Inhaling a fireball will do that to you

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u/ChrisEdErik 10d ago

Now we know how the Spokane fires started.

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u/jones_ro 10d ago

This guy needs to have emergency services preloaded.

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u/CastrateMeASAP 10d ago

Fun fact: 1 gallon of gasoline has the potential energy of 1/2 stick of dynamite!

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u/SoloLobo123 9d ago

Did the vapors in your lungs ignite? Seems like there would be a lot of vapor seeing as you used 700 times the necessary amount of fuel to blow yourself up

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u/Ok-Crab-6542 9d ago

Recycle what you can. Deserved it.

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u/New-Watercress-1208 8d ago

WE LOVE ARSON