Smoking Cigarettes Whilst Siphoning Petrol Is a VERY Bad Idea

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@crossloveslife 10 ай бұрын

Little correction: Lahore is not the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad is Love your work, keep it up!

@theravenseye9443 10 ай бұрын

Yes, of course... my bad.

@stevie-ray2020 10 ай бұрын

@@theravenseye9443 No, not "my bad", but Islamabad! 😆

@60sSam 10 ай бұрын

@@stevie-ray2020 *Groan*

@annnee6818 10 ай бұрын

@@60sSamOne day you'll appreciate a good dad joke

@frankfedison5203 10 ай бұрын

@@RodWalker-ix9mq Ever study the Inquisition? How (mostly Catholic) Christians believed it was their God-given right and sacred duty to rob, extort, dispossess, relocate, maim, torture, forcibly covert, and outright murder so-called "heretics" and "heathens", Jews, and homosexuals? Islam still teaches that such things are perfectly acceptable.....plus the fact that the repression of women's rights in any form today is far worse than the Christians of 500 years ago. I could continue, but for now I'm just gonna post this and watch the hate start rollin in... 😁

@reachandler3655 10 ай бұрын

I went ballistic at a friend who was smoking a cigarette whilst repairing his motorcycle in an enclosed space, I had to explain to a 40+ yo guy that petrol fumes are flammable 🤯

@sarahudson108 10 ай бұрын

Good job for saving his life .

@zombie_snax 8 ай бұрын

Tehee, went Ballistic. I like what you did there 👍

@noelmcauliffe 2 ай бұрын

He's lucky he's reached 40+

@brianoneil9662 10 ай бұрын

Your voice is perfect here. Balancing sympathy and honesty and it truly is sad; desperate poverty driving people to take a horrible risk, while addiction apparently leads others to forget that petrol is highly freaking flammable!

@nlwilson4892 10 ай бұрын

The problem is that people don't realise that it is the fumes that are flammable.

@scsg11 10 ай бұрын

AI voice...lol. It's not a person talking.

@MajorT0m 10 ай бұрын

Yeah it's a real person. A Syrius Cybernetics Happy Plastic Person model GX351b. Share and enjoy!

@DaveSCameron 10 ай бұрын

I can't say I agree with you and wouldn't last beyond the first pint in an alehouse 😂

@grottybt5006 10 ай бұрын

They can always afford tailored cigarettes and their clothes always look newer than mine. Almost like it's not as it seems but nobody is saying the hard truths

@jamesferguson2353 10 ай бұрын

I don't think some people realize how very volatile gasoline is

@riinak7212 10 ай бұрын

Well, it's not necessarily the petrol, but the vapours, that are massively explosive. It's so volatile and doesn't take much to ignite, which, , in turn, quickly spreads to the liquid reserves.

@michaelripley4528 10 ай бұрын

Lighting a cigarette is the issue! Smoking it is pretty safe🤷🏼‍♂️ I was once fuelling a chainsaw while having a cigarette in my mouth - A Coworker went WTF are you smoking and fuelling🫣 I took the cigarette out of my mouth and dipped it directly in the gasoline, in the full gas tank.. It went tzzzz and killed the amber! Coworkers face went White 😆 He could not believe i did that🤓 But i would never light a cigarette near gasoline fumes💯

@vicvega3614 10 ай бұрын

@@riinak7212yea its the vapor thats flammable, the gas not the liquid.

@erich930 10 ай бұрын

Clearly, at least some of the people involved in these tragedies knew about the danger, but their poverty drove them to take the risk anyway, as indicated by the eyewitness on the third incident.

@Ron-d2s 4 ай бұрын

It's not the gasoline or vapors, it's not the goon with the lighter, it's not lack of education, It IS all the fault of the cigarette......... No..... wait.... that is the excuse for gun control.

@elliottprice6084 10 ай бұрын

I'm at a loss as to what was most shocking about these disasters. The death toll of each tragedy, people smoking around huge amounts of petrol, or the sense of dread before the video even started. And watching this channel brings these tragedies to light so the victims are not forgotten

@Yosetime 10 ай бұрын

They weren't victims. They did this to themselves. It's a pretty easy conclusion to come to that this would be a dangerous act. And it was. No adult could come to any other conclusion. They were victims of their own stupidity. But not victims of any other person or event. The probability of an explosion from any number of things, including a spark from the actual tanker, was so high that any reasonable person would take a step back rather than consider trying to get away with it. The only victims here were the children. The only other true victims were those who chose to stay away but were innocently killed by the explosion and shrapnel anyway. But those who participated, not victims. They were the problem.

@elliottprice6084 10 ай бұрын

@@Yosetime I never said they were victims. I agree with you that the children killed in these explosions were victims. These people died of their own actions, I was aware of it from the start. The reason why I was shocked by this video is because I'd never heard of these before

@bradsanders407 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely none of this is shocking. What would be shocking is if a tanker crashed and ruptured and morons didn't gather with bowls and lighting cigarettes. That would be shocking.

@MajorT0m 10 ай бұрын

You can be a victim of your own ignorance or stupidity though so not sure why you're all droning on about the definition of 'victim'.

@ganymededarling 10 ай бұрын

Great video. I was expecting to see the Mexican pipeline explosion but instead got three stories I've never heard of!

@Vicus_of_Utrecht 10 ай бұрын

No shit!

@cmonkey63 10 ай бұрын

Whenever I am binge watching YT and come across a Raven's Eye video, afterwards I have to take a few minutes to collect myself before I can continue. It's not a criticism, it's an observation that (1) the video was meaningful, if tragic and (2) that's how I know I still have a soul. "Burnt beyond recognition". Ouch.

@alankeith7866 10 ай бұрын

Just because money is allocated for infrastructure improvements, it doesn't mean that the money actually gets to where it needs to be...

@JimAllen-Persona 10 ай бұрын

There's more pipelines in government project funding than at an oil refinery. 🙂

@TheMouseAvenger 2 ай бұрын

@@JimAllen-Persona Dafuq does that mean? XD

@jbaker7311 10 ай бұрын

My husband had an acquaintance from his younger years that died as a result of gas igniting while using it as a solvent to clean automotive parts. He was smoking.

@JimAllen-Persona 10 ай бұрын

1+1=0. I feel bad for the guy because I've done stupid things too... but at least that I can kind of see... smoking in front of a leaking tanker truck is Darwin award territory.

@jbaker7311 10 ай бұрын

They always referred to him as 'crazy Larry' even before the accident.@@JimAllen-Persona

@ACME_Kinetics 10 ай бұрын

@@JimAllen-Persona That's the issue, only 1 person of several hundred needs to make the bad decision. Even those who were just unlucky enough to live in an area where one guy sparks a lighter can suffer.

@bradsanders407 10 ай бұрын

@@JimAllen-Personayou do realize calling others stupid while purporting a cigarette can ignite gas is well... stupid?

@basilbrush9075 10 ай бұрын

@@bradsanders407tell us more, can't it? What fuel are we discussing here?

@traumgeist 10 ай бұрын

In my city there are tweakers who steal gas from people's cars by drilling a hole in the fuel tank with an electric drill. At least once a tweaker has started a fire and burned himself up in the process.

@fahrenheit2530 10 ай бұрын

I hate those kinds of thieves, it costs a fortune to get the fuel tank repaired and half the time they destroy the car by starting a fire with their power tools. And most of the time they don't even steal all the gas, causing the rest to leak everywhere.

@JimAllen-Persona 10 ай бұрын

@@fahrenheit2530 Commonality: greed and stupidity. If you want to steal gas that bad, find one of a gazilion credit card numbers off the dark web and install the software on a burner phone.

@NucleaRaptor 6 ай бұрын

Trash taking itself out. Shame about the car though.

@TheMouseAvenger 2 ай бұрын

@@NucleaRaptor Tweakers need our help to overcome their tragic addictions, not our derision. :-(

@fahrenheit2530 10 ай бұрын

We've had a couple incidents like these in America, not because of scavenging but just because of wrecks that were so violent they caused explosions. There was one in Tennessee back in the late 80's where a gasoline tanker struck a retaining wall and blew up, and another incident in California around 2007 or so where a tanker burned with such ferocity that it brought down a flyover ramp. The most recent was over the summer in Philadelphia, a gasoline tanker took a curve too fast and overturned under an overpass, and the fire burned so hot that the bridge literally melted. A lot of these wrecks are caused by excessive speed and fluid dynamics, which is why nowadays a lot of tanker truck companies run their trucks either full to the brim or bone dry- no in between. Even at normal speeds any sloshing liquid in a half-filled trailer will overturn a tanker. A lot of times there's not a whole lot a trucker can do to stop people looting his truck after a crash, there's simply too many people and oftentimes not enough law enforcement, especially in rural areas of third world countries. A lot of truckers will simply just let it happen because they either know their priorities or they know they'll be in trouble for intervening. Aside from arming the truckers or an aggressive police presence I don't see any way to prevent people from stealing, standing, or smoking around the gas, although you'd think the overpowering smell, and the obvious warning graphics would make people use their senses.

@sam-psonsmith9951 10 ай бұрын

Big difference though, because these Tankers weren't surrounded by 100+ people when they caught fire. The worst for me, is the fact that they brought the children along, knowing how dangerous it is. And yes, they know petrol burn, that is not a lack of education thing. They know what gasoline is for.

@secretagent5954 10 ай бұрын

stop trying to defend pricks. aside from a train or truck exploding “naturally” in a populated area theres no excuse.

@andrewtaylor940 10 ай бұрын

I’ve been to 4 or 5 Tanker explosions as a firefighter. Once when a tanker rolled and exploded under an overpass on the Long Island Expressway, that badly damaged 2 major highways. Another up in Binghamton NY where a tanker went around a traffic circle, clipped a car and rolled. That one set 3 houses on fire and sent a burning river of gasoline into the sewer heading for a hospital. In both incidents the only fatality was the driver.

@michaelimbesi2314 10 ай бұрын

@johnmartlewYou don’t actually need the baffles if it’s full enough. The sloshing effect is known as the Free Surface Effect, because it’s only a function of the amount of free surface area in the liquid. Minimizing the free surface is why tankers are shaped the way they are. By being rounded, the width of the tank is less at the top or bottom than in the middle part. This means that when nearly full or nearly empty, the tanker has much less free surface available to slosh, while still being able to take advantage of the full width of the tank for cargo capacity for much of its height. I know this stuff because I’m a naval architect and the free surface effect had been responsible for a number of disasters, particularly on car ferries and roll-on/roll-off (RORO) cargo ships. Those last ones are so infamous for it that they’re often derisively called “roll-on roll-over” instead.

@nqgamer 10 ай бұрын

Don’t forget the tragic incident involving Derek Zoolander, truly a tragedy.

@wobblybobengland 10 ай бұрын

I was on a bus near Mysore, at night, the traffic was stopped for ages, so I walked forward to see what the problem was, and about 500ft up the road they had a fuel tanker that'd come off the road, the truck picked the tanker up from it's position on a crane and the tanker moved a half turn in the air, loads of Indians shouting at each other. I figured the tanker must have been empty but there were still bucket fulls of petroleum spirit raining down out of it, they put the tanker on the flatbed upside down, in front of a massive audience at a 20 to 30ft distance most smoking away, imagine the stink of it, absolutely incredible.

@jdfriar 10 ай бұрын

You are makin' me want a cigarette man! looks at gas pump. looks at cigarettes...

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 10 ай бұрын

Don't do it!

@brandonrenwick7940 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely love how you bring these lesser known tragedies to the eyes and ears of many. Your channel is going to end up very popular I think!

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for being sympathetic to the plight of people just trying to get by and help their families. There are plenty of people who would have ridiculed the victims for their "stupidity" but desperation and poverty will make people take terrible risks.

@Periodik 10 ай бұрын

I grew up in poverty. My parents never stole a single penny in their desperation. The deaths of these people are tragic but their actions were stupid. No need to sugarcoat it.

@peterloohunt 9 ай бұрын

The grimness of global poverty.

@TheMouseAvenger 2 ай бұрын

Oh, that magic wands existed in this universe, so that (along with a jillion other things) I/we could rid the whole world of poverty! 💔

@DouglasCarnall 10 ай бұрын

Bloody dangerous stuff petrol

@Rayman1971 10 ай бұрын

All that heavier than air gasoline fumes travel far, and it goes up quite fast and violently

@bentboybbz 10 ай бұрын

A cigarette??!! With spilled gasoline, a lot of people in a group, all moving around each other causes a static electricity build up on people's clothes, takes just on spark, gasoline in liquid form is not quite flammable, but it's vapor is deceptively easy to ignite, your cars engine sucks in vaporized gasoline into the cylinder, intake valve closes and then the spark plug sparks...one time and that's all it takes...that one spark is so reliable that this ignition event happens 2000 times a minute while your 4 cylinder engine is at idle...30 times a second or so...I used to deliver gasoline to stations, and people will walk up smoking a cigarette and throw it on the ground...drive their cars super close to the hose attached to the in ground tank...I don't think alot of people understand how much fuel is flowing through that hose...I know I filled up a 250 gallon tank in about 10 seconds...if you ran that over with your car I'm not helping anyone...I'm not running inside to alert anyone...I'm going to have a massive amount of fuel coming out of a hose that's hundreds of pounds and probably flailing around loose...I'll probably close the belly valve on the trailer and run away...I'm not going to the other side of town or anything but I'll be about 100 to 150 yards away behind something concrete...also there is a vent in the tank...if you put fuel in, fuel vapor has to leave the tank, most times there is a vent hose that attached from the in ground tank to the trailer so all the vapors are safely contained in the trailer until it gets refilled then the plant takes those vapors and manages them...if that vent hose is not attached because the driver is lazy, he wasn't provided the right equipment, or any other reason there will be a massive amount of vapors escaping from the ground shooting straight up just waiting for a spark...it's actually very dangerous all around...ive hauled ethanol as well, and JP1 AKA Jet fuel...which is just really clean kerosene with special additives...jet fuel is less dangerous than the 87 octane gasoline you put in your Honda lol

@daphne8406 10 ай бұрын

It is always hard to have sympathy with people who got themselves injured or killed by their own risky behaviours; going to a large flammable substance spill to get free stuff / lighting a cigaret near said flammable substance 😑 However, I have never been so poor that taking such risk just for some free stuff seemed worth it it 🤔 🤷‍♀️ Though lighting a cigaret really is just plain stupid, no redeemable reasons for that 😑

@annnee6818 10 ай бұрын

Yes. When you're poor, free stuff us welcome, it would have just gone in the ground anyway. I'm sure none of them thought anyone would be stupid enough to smoke there

@bradsanders407 10 ай бұрын

There is no such thing as being poor enough to make wading out into a swamp of gasoline worth it.

@bradsanders407 10 ай бұрын

@@annnee6818the smoking isn't the problem. The lighting of the cigarette is the problem. Even if there was somehow a way to determine that no one would be stupid enough to flick a lighter, there are other ways it could ignite. Static electricity for instance.

@davidfisher9026 6 ай бұрын

Exactly. So please shut up and count your blessings. There's always time for you to suffer circumstances too. Please don't bring it upon yourself by looking down on others.

@watchout5508 10 ай бұрын

I remember when a Petrol tanker exploded semi-near my home here in a small town in South Africa. It was early morning, still black out and unbeknownst to me a tanker was involved in a motor accident while driving in (or near) the industrial area of our little town. I remember hearing what felt like thunder shaking the windows ever so slightly, all while at the time I was playing Civ 5, this went on for long enough that I went to my father and asked him if he had also noticed (I think this was 2019). Father said no he doesnt and this really made me feel insane...cause I know I could feel the explosions too. The next part I will never forget... We were standing in the kitchen when we noticed a louder bang and this was when we realized its not thunder, suddenly what felt like a nuclear blast rocked the house maki g the windows wobble as if to pop out the frames! We remember one side of the house being lit up with flickering light rays coming through the kitchen window... Then another bang and another, it was horrible. At the time I thought we were at war? I was thinking who would bomb us? Our little town? Since when? Then as soon as it began it ended (obvi the tanker exploded fully) And we were left wondering wtf? Turns out a petrol tanker was on route to a gas station as sitting in traffic when it was rear ended by one of our towns 'amazing drivers' This caused the fuel to leak and you know the rest. To this day i have a hectic fear of tankers when i ride near them...

@slimshadow49 10 ай бұрын

Gives a new meaning to "cigarettes kill."

@nathanholton5335 10 ай бұрын

Damn! You took the words right out of my mouth!

@slimshadow49 10 ай бұрын

great minds think alike my friend@@nathanholton5335

@PaulRudd1941 10 ай бұрын

I knew someone was going to say it while I was listening to it... 😅

@RouteDeTours 10 ай бұрын

Half witted morons might be more appropriate. Not every half witten moron is a smoker but every smoker is a half witted moron.

@DaddyRobotX15 10 ай бұрын

American industry & infrastructure of transportation ( even as old & dilapidated as ours is) sure allows all of us to take for granted the safety of delivering volatile stuff like gasoline thru our cities & villages safely , don't we? I was just noticing the hand painted " Dubai Petrol' sign on the tanker, 1960s era plastic buckets the poor Congolese are scooping up gas with , etc.... we take a whole lot for granted here ....

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 10 ай бұрын

Indeed

@BrettonFerguson 10 ай бұрын

I saw a video that said in Nigeria people routinely put holes in the pipelines to cause leaks to steak fuel. And one time this caused an explosion. People put all the blame for the poverty on the foreign oil companies. However some of the blame needs to go on the corrupt leadership in charge of these countries. They get billions from the oil companies and none of it goes to roads or any other infrastructure. People can't even get their crop to the city markets to sell during rainy seasons because they only have dirt roads. so when it rains the roads are impassable for several months of the year. Food is rotting in one area and people are starving to death in another area. All because the leadership refuses to spend a few million to buy rocks and gravel for a foundation, culverts for drainage, and then pave on top of it. Instead they only have mud. Not even gravel like dirt roads in the west. No gravel roads, but mud dirt dirt roads. Meanwhile the president owns several multi million dollar mansions in the Alps.

@grapeshot 10 ай бұрын

Yeah I remember seeing that footage of that pipeline that exploded in Mexico. Very horrific scenes.

@ReesieandLee 10 ай бұрын

Listening to this made my stomach just drop to my feet. I’m from Lahaina, Maui. I lost friends and acquaintances in the fires on August 9th. One friend lived for 3 days with horrendous burns over 75% of his body. Anything with fires reminds me of what a horrible death he, and so many more, had. #LahainaStrong

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 10 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss. Good thoughts to you 🌻

@getsmarter5412 10 ай бұрын

I live on the big island. The Lahaina Fire was so horrific, we could barely talk about it for weeks. I can only equate it to Pompei. My condolences. Our hearts go out to you and you family and friends.

@foo219 10 ай бұрын

Sorry for your loss. A really horrific accident.

@ReesieandLee 10 ай бұрын

@@getsmarter5412 I lived in Kona for 10 years ❤️ it’s been decades but occasionally I wake up and my first thought is “I’m going to drive to Hilo today” before I realize I’m stuck in Utah because of family commitments 🤮 I’ve flown to Maui twice in the last 6 weeks to be comic relief/momma bear for my friends. So many people are hanging on by a thread, mentally. If I could afford it I would go back for Christmas to make sure they all make it through ok.

@ReesieandLee 10 ай бұрын

@@foo219 thank you, it is still so much worse than the news reports. But Lahaina is a strong community and will come back stronger than ever.

@hannahp1108 10 ай бұрын

To your point in the introduction, there are many plane crash sites that have been looted for parts in the immediate aftermath

@JimAllen-Persona 10 ай бұрын

But it worked though, didnt it? They had to offer rewards to get the key missing parts.

@HadridarMatramen 10 ай бұрын

I just want to thank you for starting this video with a brief reminder that desperate poverty leads to desperate acts. It is far too easy, I think, to talk about events such as these, and put all the blame on the people who "are stupid enough" to crowd around these overturned cars with flammable liquids and fumes all around. To dismiss it as an act of stupidity only. To blame the victims for...well, for being there in the first place, because surely they know that petrol is dangerous, right? /sarcasm. But as you said; extreme poverty makes people make choices that they might not have made if they were better off to begin with. Like, I'm Norwegian, and when we have accidents of a similar nature (can't remember a petrol one off the top of my head, but we have had food transportations that this have happened to), I don't think I've ever heard of people crowding around the cars with the hopes of getting something they need. We don't struggle with the same degrees of poverty and systemic neglect as the people you mentioned in this video experience. I have nothing but sympathy for all of the victims of these terrible, dreadful accidents. Thank you for not victim-blaming. This was a GREAT video.

@VMM34 10 ай бұрын

And you never mentioned the ridiculous smokers at the scene...

@HadridarMatramen 10 ай бұрын

@@VMM34 No. I did not. Because they were most likely not malicious in their intent. Who knows why they did the things they did? They probably did not intend mass murder - many who smoke automatically reach for a smoke when something gets too overwhelming. That might have been at play here. Or they might simply not know how flammable the fumes themselves were, and believed that it was only dangerous if they touched the liquid itself. There are any number of reasons for why they did what they did. Unless they had malicious intent, I don't think there's any point in blaming them either. They just had a moment of idiocy - and they didn't have time or chance to learn from their mistake either.

@Nope_handlesaretrash 10 ай бұрын

oh boy man made horrors within my comprehension

@Yosetime 10 ай бұрын

You know, so many people will be talking about how to prevent such a tragedy. But, poor or not, you cannot prevent stupidity. You cannot prevent things like this. It's sad, for sure. But no matter how poor these people are, dying in this way should not be an option when actually trying to prevent yourself from dying from poverty. Even people who are not impoverished participate in looting when a natural disaster or something happens even in the US. Whenever there is something valuable for free, people go for it. Despite the risks. We have proven, so many hundreds of times, that being stupid is how you die. Perhaps an evolutionary thing. But certainly, nobody could have prevented what happened in these three cases. They were doomed the moment the tankers rolled and each and every one of them made the decision to die. So horribly simple. But not worth trying to come up with ways to prevent it. Even if the people were not impoverished, they'd do the same thing. The idea of getting something for free is just too tempting for an astonishing number of people.

@jasonbirch1182 10 ай бұрын

The 80 motorcycles easily could have lit the first tanker. They backfire small flames easily. All the vapors are everywhere. Lit cigarettes/embers dont light gasoline. Sparks or flames do. You can throw a cigarette in a buckey of gas and it will go out.

@thejudgmentalcat 10 ай бұрын

Yes it was vapors...and the cig guys probably thought they were safe as long as the cig didn't hit the fuel itself.

@grmpEqweer 10 ай бұрын

...I'm almost tempted to buy a single cigarillo and a bit of gasoline/petrol, just to see if OP is correct. (I have asthma, though, and gasoline fumes are SPECTACULARLY not my friend)

@AdeptusChaoticus 10 ай бұрын

I was deployed to Iraq in 03 and we used to burn human waste in buckets of fuel. It is absolutely true that you could throw a cigarette in the bucket and it would not ignite the fuel.

@grmpEqweer 10 ай бұрын

@@AdeptusChaoticus Flaming sh1t buckets.😮

@jasonbirch1182 10 ай бұрын

@@thejudgmentalcat like I said. The cig itself won't do shit. But sparking a lighter to light one definitely will. You would have to be a special kind of stupid to do that near a gas truck puking it's guts out, but if you are risking your life/skin for 25$ worth of gas you might be that special guy. There are so many things In a vehicle that can ignite fuel vapors too. Relays clicking, the carbon brushes on the alternator, engaging the starter is a big high amp relay/solenoid, shitty old arcing spark plug wires, Blower motor.

@littlespinycactus 10 ай бұрын

Easy to forget how lucky we Brits are. Not just because we aren't so desperately poor that we'd risk being barbecued for a drop of free petrol, but for the half-decent infrastructure we take for granted. Our most pothole-ridden street is like a billiard table y comparison with the enormous crater pictured in Nigeria. And a poorly maintained road in the UK might punish your suspension, but it won't collapse under the weight of a tanker.

@ianmacfarlane1241 10 ай бұрын

There are still many idiots who'll take unnecessary risks around petrol. I worked in a petrol station and saw regular instances of people doing the stupidest of things around the pumps. Even when we had the tankers on site, there were people oblivious to the danger. Bad infrastructure is one part of the equation, but don't discount human stupidity.

@gemfyre855 10 ай бұрын

I always had the feeling that a lot of smokers don't seem to realise that their cigarettes are BURNING, like FIRE. The way they wave them around in crowds, it's amazing more people don't get burned.

@bellybutthole 10 ай бұрын

No it smolders...

@Alaryicjude 10 ай бұрын

Far too many of them don't care about anyone or anything but themselves. My parents and grandparents ruined my lungs by smoking around me as an infant and child. They don't care.

@VMM34 10 ай бұрын

@@AlaryicjudeSame here. I've never smoked once in my entire life but now have only the top half of my lungs working due to being brought up in a smoking household. I managed to move out when I was 20 and get my own place. My parents didn't care that I sat up all night unable to breathe. I truly hate smokers with a passion now. And they have the audacity to ask why I'm breathing heavily when I walk. Just total madness the way they affect other people's health and don't care

@foo219 10 ай бұрын

Oh they know. They just don't care. They want their fix.

@MainelyLove 10 ай бұрын

@@VMM34 We would all be better off if tobacco disappeared. Ppl don't like to think about it being a serious problem and what that means. I wish for you the recovery of your lung function asap.

@BETFRED1981 10 ай бұрын

All have one thing in common = Mud huts

@sirawesomenessi1796 10 ай бұрын

My dad was telling me how one of the people from his old backwoods town was killed while welding his fuel tank inside his closed garage. Blew up his whole house too.

@Manx123 8 ай бұрын

Very expensive means of population control.

@GrimJerr 4 ай бұрын

Darwin awards all around, not a tragedy as much as blatant stupidity !

@OffendingTheOffendable 3 ай бұрын

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

@blinard1 10 ай бұрын

Pakistani capital is Islamabad, not Lahore

@CNCmachiningisfun Ай бұрын

Reminds me of the fellow I saw, using a vacuum cleaner to suck petrol out of fuel tanks!

@jamessimms415 10 ай бұрын

A bunch of crispy critters there

@erikku4739 10 ай бұрын

You can blame their greed, but honestly, if I was in poverty it would've looked like survival, either way the cigarettes smoker was the fool

@ianmacfarlane1241 10 ай бұрын

It doesn't matter how desperate you are, walking towards an overturned petrol tanker isn't worth the risk. In no way am I blaming these poor people, but it's almost guaranteed to end in disaster, and a few dollars worth of fuel simply isn't worth dying for. You don't need someone smoking for an explosion.

@Vicus_of_Utrecht 10 ай бұрын

@@ianmacfarlane1241 Just accidently dragging a metal gas container to pick up the gas could spark it up.

@Troglodytarum 10 ай бұрын

"Survival" alright genius, keep using that ol brain of yours.

@ianmacfarlane1241 10 ай бұрын

@@Vicus_of_Utrecht Indeed. I wouldn't trust a crowd of several hundred people, given that it only takes one person, inadvertently creating one ignition source.

@foo219 10 ай бұрын

@@ianmacfarlane1241Yeah. A lot of accidents are caused by just one idiot, and then hundreds die.

@cmphighpower 10 ай бұрын

This type of greed is absolutely incorrigible

@BeamerTheFox 8 ай бұрын

there animals in a 40th world country, they do dumb shit everyday like this.

@RagingMoon1987 10 ай бұрын

As usual, well done. We Americans think we have it bad with our gas prices, and I'm not pooh-poohing them. But thank God, we don't yet have to steal fuel. I feel sorry for these folks that have to do so.

@garrysekelli6776 10 ай бұрын

What? Americans steal fuel all the time. Think Iraq war. Think Libia. Think Syria.

@debbieellett9093 10 ай бұрын

This definitely serves as a reminder of how blessed we truly are.

@TheWeepingCorpse 10 ай бұрын

Oh well. I think its called natural selection.

@gloomyvale3671 10 ай бұрын

The truck driver stuck around after crashing lmfao, I’m sorry but this is Darwinism 101.

@vainiancraze8416 10 ай бұрын

The gloomy music at the beginning gets me everytime.

@neiljosephbennett9119 9 ай бұрын

For the record, the tanker explosion you used in the first 15 seconds of this video was not caused by siphoning petrol, nor did it have anything to do with people trapped in poverty. It happened in Boksburg, South Africa, on 24 December last year. The driver took a wrong turn and ended up stuck under a railway bridge. It's a disaster worth covering on its own.

@grapeshot 10 ай бұрын

A very stupid and lethal idea.

@georgesullivan4473 10 ай бұрын

I've certainly done and said many stupid things in my 53 years but I can't lay claim to smoking near petrol lol 😂

@rumrstv 10 ай бұрын

Dear Raven's Eye, please consider getting a pop filter between you and your microphone. Every "P" you pronounce sounds like someone hitting a mattress with a baseball bat. Just a suggestion. Great content otherwise!

@theravenseye9443 10 ай бұрын

OK will do

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 10 ай бұрын

You going to donate the money for it?

@briantaylor9285 10 ай бұрын

Horrible beyond words.

@abingleyboy 10 ай бұрын

I remember hearing one, possibly in France where a tanker spilled its load over a Camp site and then Wooosh! Being someone who camped it stuck in my mind as particularly nasty. It was in spain, I just read up on it.

@smedleyx 10 ай бұрын

I've seen what I believe was the aftermath of the Sierra Leone petrol tanker scavenging explosion; seemed like many people were incinerated where they stood. I'm fairly first-world civilized, but didn't know some things about gasoline (such as its vapor being heavy and ground-hugging, meaning it can be hard to smell). The best education I got about petrol/gas was watching all those videos of people getting killed or nearly so, from mishandling fuel of various types. Similarly, it's crucial to revisit disasters (as this channel superbly does) and continue to learn. Perhaps it's a reason for our "morbid curiosity" -- to try teaching us how to not screw up. I now ground myself of static electricity constantly every time I'm at the gas station, no joke.

@paradiselost9946 10 ай бұрын

i spent my teens playing with it :) learnt all about fire... surprisingly i have all my fingers and only faint scars... iunno, petrol station the other day. guy in front. on bike. helmet on. filling up. la de da de da. i went off at the attendant...wtf? "didnt want to stop the pump as it would inconvenience the other guy pumping on next bowser" EXACTLY WHY YOU STOP THE PUMP. then you can yell out "i cant run the pumps until that idiot gets off his bike, and removes his helmet..." why? whose responsible if that idiot happens to set himself on fire due to static? what will his first reaction be other than to pull the thing out and spray himself and the bike with petrol? whose JOB is it to ensure the safety of the public when refuelling? sure, it may never happen... the thing is, you DONT WANT it to ever happen so you dont LET it happen. some rules are there to be broken. some rules are there simply because not obeying them often leads to people dying... the smart people can differentiate between the two.

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 10 ай бұрын

I never go back into my vehicle when waiting on the gas tank to fill. The risk of static electricity, especially in the low-humidity arid climate I lived in, was to great.

@byteme9718 10 ай бұрын

I recall working in Nigeria and this kind of stuff is common.

@David19553 10 ай бұрын

Excellent channel. Live long and prosper.🖖

@edstein5642 10 ай бұрын

Hopefully your presentation of these avoidable disasters & the consequences will be viewed by enough people, worldwide, to make a difference. I can’t imagine anyone taking the chance of scooping fuel would do so after viewing this. I suppose there must be many incidents of tanker ruptures where fuel was scooped without incident that we don’t hear about… we only know of the ones that exploded.

@michaelripley4528 10 ай бұрын

@RatPfink66 10 ай бұрын

Regardless sir, you are as dumb as shit in a shoebox. You're lucky to be alive and (i assume) still resembling a human being.

@jorgezarco9269 9 ай бұрын

Petrol is "gasoline" in North America.

@nfwolfaardt 9 ай бұрын

6:36 petrol AND ganja... bonus!

@cuddlepaws4423 10 ай бұрын

This might sound unpopular, but these people in poverty would have more money if they didn't smoke. Just a thought.

@barnbuild27 6 ай бұрын

While cycling one day I stopped for a break near a bridge over a river. A man and a woman sitting nearby asked for spare change or any handout I could provide. I saw they were both smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. I rode on.

@AlaskanInsights 10 ай бұрын

yes, gasoline ignition is less than the temp of a cigarette

@AlaskanInsights 10 ай бұрын

propane is cool though, but don't do it.

@Captain_hadley_49 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant vid as always raven keep it up.

@WendysCove 10 ай бұрын

Brilliance so much research. RIP to all. Lives are worth .ore than free fuel.

@bestboy138 10 ай бұрын

one time my cousin was pumping gas and vaping.

@stevea1288 10 ай бұрын

Incredible fact that is it wasn't for this amazing Channel we wouldn't ever hear of these horrific disasters! I truly appreciate your amazing work, bravo good Sir 😎

@klayed 10 ай бұрын

MALAGOULIES dear oh dear

@juliecasey5196 10 ай бұрын

Horrendous Rest In Peace to all🙏

@annegrey3780 10 ай бұрын

thank you so much for covering these, ive never heard of any of them

@Stephan-bj3lh 9 ай бұрын

Just the fumes alone have to tell you it's highly flammable. ITS CRAZY JUST CRAZY!!!!!

@Juggernaut30 10 ай бұрын

You don`t need one person to light a match or smoke a cigarette. There are so many ways to ignite petrol. Electrostatic charge for example. And because of this, you get warned to GO AWAY, IT`S REALLY DANGEROUS!!! If you don`t give a fuck.....well you have asked for! Natural selection!🤷‍♂ It`s really tragic, but there is so much stupidity involved, i only can 🤦‍♂🤷‍♂.

@ChrisJones-qw7bn 8 ай бұрын

I get the desire for "free" fuel. But the sheer mind numbing STUPIDITY of the masses in these examples is breath taking. DARWIN Awards ALL AROUND for these folks...

@petenztube8592 10 ай бұрын

Still, 13 people have as much money as the 50% of the world's poorest people, so clearly The System is working just fine

@allybally0021 20 күн бұрын

I have learned that petrol can burn and might even be dangerous. I suppose that energy could be used for propulsion in some way if someone could work out how to harness this.

@secretagent5954 10 ай бұрын

all these people, all others included, including america, are 100% to blame unless the truck or train exploded “naturally.” freaking poors.

@Pablo668 10 ай бұрын

Really awful. I'm pretty sure that an already lit cigarette is not a good ignition source, even with petrol on the ground vapouring away. The lighters though.....and plastic containers not design for fuel. Static sparks from that kind of container are a real thing.

@madzen112 4 ай бұрын

This somehow reminds me of an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where Krang hacks the ATMs in New York to spray out free money

@EvilGrin 10 ай бұрын

Sorry to put it so bluntly, but "infrastructure" isn't the problem, it's extreme poverty and lack of education. No amount of improved roads will stop this from happening again when people are so poor and desperate that they will rush to steal fuel and parts from a crashed tanker truck (And whilst I do not fault them for that at all, we should be honest about the fact that it is theft.) And this unfortunately doesn't only happen with trucks: People drill holes into pipelines to steal fuel, only to have their faces cooked by a stream of high pressure, 200° hot crude oil, or they will light torches when it gets dark so they don't have to stop scavanging for the night. And it only takes one idiot not understanding the danger to kill 200+people in a second. Also, before anyone gets any ideas: People in "the West" will be doing the same when presented with the oportunity, sadly enough for similar reasons.

@urbanmidnight1 4 ай бұрын

There seems to be a pattern here.

@katemaloney4296 10 ай бұрын

Flammable liquids are an equal opportunity destroyer of lives and property. God forgive me, but if you light a flame around flammables...I can only pray for your soul.

@MochaMela 10 ай бұрын

Dear Raven, Something similar happened in mexico when a gasoline pipeline burst. Can you do a story about it?

@aldenconsolver3428 10 ай бұрын

I did not hear you mention another casual problem here, after working around gasoline for 15 or 20 minute you are certainly not thinking clearly. For someone outside the vapor cloud - sure - lighting a cigarette or starting a motor around that mess is criminally stupid. But after 15 minutes of inhaling gasoline fumes you do not have enough brains to realize that the simple ciggy is going to kill hundreds. Also (having worked around volatiles before I know that) they do not give a warning, worse even than drinking, most people know if they are more or less drunk and its time to go home. Gasoline, ketone, toluene etc will mess up your thinking before you even realize that it is degrading your thought processes.

@Stephan-bj3lh 25 күн бұрын

It's amazing that they don't realize how dangerous this stuff really is.

@sam-psonsmith9951 10 ай бұрын

I kind of understand them trying to get the gas. if you are that poor a few liters of free gasoline can actually make a big difference. But why in all seven hells would you bring your child with you... They all knew gasoline burns. That is not a lack of education. Its just plain carelessness.

@jacobwatts202 10 ай бұрын

Had a tanker crash in my 2,500 gallons of deseil leaked out. Thank god there was no explosion.

@pieterveenders9793 8 ай бұрын

Wow, that's a lot of Darwin awards won on all 3 occassions. Especially the first 2, with over 200 awards won each time!

@efnissien 9 ай бұрын

It would be comical, except I've seen (and done) incredibly stupid things, that seemed 'ok' at the time.

@JimAllen-Persona 10 ай бұрын

Well, because the people that are making the money off the petrol have a vested interest in keeping things just the way they are, including their cronies. It's also further proof that no matter what, some a$$hole screws up a good thing because they're greedy and stupid and this is why we can't have nice things.

@tommygoode9644 9 ай бұрын

I tried lighting a cigarette and throwing it into just a cup of fuel. The fuel put it out. So all these stories talking about how cigarettes are to blame for these explosions may be a bunch of bull shit. They may be porky pies with a bell on top. Obviously the tragedies did happen and were horrific. But I don't think that cigarettes are to blame here completely.

@kirtknierim3687 8 ай бұрын

I honestly used to fill my truck from a "jug of gas" into a damn funnel with a ciggy in my mouth. I honestly knew better.. i was an idiot.

@lyedavide 10 ай бұрын

You would be surprised as to how many absolutely idiotic people are responsible for hundreds upon thousands of lives lost. Unfortunately, there is no cure for stupidity. RIP to all those who died in these terrible accidents.

@urbanmidnight1 4 ай бұрын

The people robbing that fuel don't look poor to me, all wearing good clothing and own trucks and cars.