Woman badly burned decanting petrol

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Horrific.

It doesn't sound ilke a 'jerrycan' incident, but I hope there are no more like it over the coming weeks. Safer to stay put than store petrol or be pouring, syphoning or decanting it.

Are you a friend of or related to the woman in question?

I think she's just a fellow human being jasmine

What I mean is, Okay, let's assume for a moment that you have a superior brain to the woman we're discussing, and you are much more intelligent and she's a right old thicko.

So? Is that her fault? Is it your fault that you were born brilliant? What right does your superiority give you not to feel sympathy for her?

As far as I can see it does not make you a better person or the world a better place. I'm just not sure what you are trying to prove. And anyway, you're wrong even with the first assumption, as far as any of us knows.

And yes, if you are cleverer, which I don't for one moment think you are, it is ENTIRELY through luck. We don't choose how clever we are. It happens to us, as do accidents to sane and intelligent people who don't happen to know everything or slip up once in a while.

Does any of that make sense to you.

All I've said is that the woman is very very stupid do what she did. If you find that horrifying and makes you feel sick I think you've got a problem.

You've a right to think that, but you're wrong.

I'm not saying it's her fault that she's thick. I'm just saying she was very very stupid. You've read a whole lot of extra stuff in my comments, but that's all in your own head. I am sorry for her suffering, but I still think, and always will, that she was a very very stupid woman. Some people are stupid, that's a fact of life.

I don't think I can even speak to you any more.

sorry but since when was a woman in her 40's a "girl"
hope she recovers well.

You can't tell me my opinion of that woman is wrong. It's what I think. Many people do many stupid things. But according to you nobody is allowed to say what they think about it. We all have to only be 'nice' all the time. I just don't agree with that. I'm not trying to be nice or nasty. I'm just stating what I think. If people don't like me as a result of my opinion that's absolutely fine by me.

I didn't. I said your opinion of me was wrong, that I have a problem. I don't. Not about this, anyway.

I don't want to discuss it further because you're assuming so much that's not true that I don't know where to start.

"there are notices at petrol stations instructing people not to smoke or use naked flames."

Bunbaker I've seen these signs, but assumed they were in case any stray petrol had fallen on the floor/pump/car and a spark from the cigarette or hot ash touched the petrol itself. I had no idea that just the fumes could ignite, until reading this thread.

Let it go, Jasmine. You've made your points.

So you do have a problem?

Those of you with children old enough to cope, have you shared this story with them?
Do they know that petrol is dangerous, that the fumes ignite in a fireball and that the consequences of not understanding what you are dealing with can be fatal?

2shoes, was that aimed at me? I consider myself a girl.

Wow! Some seriously not nice posts/ opinions on here.

I would consider myself a reasonably intelligent person AND I did science at school. Yes, we all know "petrol is flammable" And there are signs at petrol stations re naked flames etc, but I guess I'd never thought about just how dangerous it is. And possibly neither did this woman.

Some of you saying "God, how stupid- has she never seen the signs at petrol stations saying petrol is flammable?" Yeah, I've seen those signs, but nowadays we are so used to everything and anything coming with a warning (there is the same warning on my dd's nightdress, ffs- "flammable material- keep away from naked flame") that we forget the real risks. We are so used to using petrol in a controlled environment that it's easy to forget how dangerous it is when removed from that environment

AS fllighty pointed out, she may not have been aware of how flammable the fumes were- we don't know how close this woman was to the cooker and indeed whether it was a naked flame, so it's pretty harsh to pass judgement, especially since the poor woman is in such a bad way.

I hope she makes as good a recovery as possible, and that this horrible incident reminds people of the real dangers of petrol.

"I hope she makes as good a recovery as possible, and that this horrible incident reminds people of the real dangers of petrol."

Absolutely

I think some of you should take a day off this thing and then re-read what you posted. Several of you should be ashamed of yourselves. I can only assume you troll sites looking for trouble. Do you post notes on dead children's face book sites as well?

Flighty and others well done for trying to keep the bar raised on comments and discussion. In the end it was you guys and your lucid comments to a topical question that made this interesting.