Smoking greatly diminishes one's sense of smell... maybe that had to do something with it.

Maybe. Also combined with the floorboard thing??? Or maybe it was just total ignorance. Anyone stupid enough to smoke in a confined space with a propane tank is likely too stupid to recognize propane when they smell it. Or realize that fire + propane odor = boom!

 

I have a friend that was very educated. Once we pulled into a dock to fuel up the sailboat before returning it to the charter company. She was on the fuel dock, lite cigarette in hand, peering down the open fuel port on the boat. I asked her to extinguish it. Her comment "diesel is not easily flammable". She is 100% correct. But why take chances plus there were gasoline pumps nearby. I did not persist in my concerns since she was captain at the time plus the fuel dock man saw her shortly after and insisted she put out the cigarette. She tried to use her non flammable excuse but he wasn't buying it. THAT is addiction!

 

I remember an old sepia Photo taken probably in the 40s there is a maintenance guy sitting atop of a largish aircraft with Jerry cans manually refueling, a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth.
Max.

 

I remember an old sepia Photo taken probably in the 40s there is a maintenance guy sitting atop of a largish aircraft with Jerry cans manually refueling, a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth.
Max.

I sincerely hope that dude died of old age...

 

I sincerely hope that dude died of old age...

After spending some years in an LPG carrier and several tankers carrying different oil cargoes, the concern is not the idiot but those he will take with him. One-man casualties are rare in that environment.

Had two frightening experiences:

A steward, on the pier, near the gangway (and the shore manifold!), smoking his cigarette while our vessel was discharging at a refinery.

The Chief Engineer of our vessel, trying to light a cigarette on main deck, with one of our tanks' access open for visual inspection. My cursing, deliberately crude, addressed to him, tried to show how wrong he was.

And this, that ranged rather high in the scale of fear: the safety system forced one of our tanks (LPG carrier) venting to the atmosphere a visible dense cloud of gas. With the light breeze, it moved slowly into the bay, crossing the course of a tug. We were a few of people holding breath until it went silently away.

 

http://freebeacon.com/national-secu...ails-mystery-attacks-american-diplomats-cuba/

 

http://www.kptv.com/story/36160239/video-shows-painful-leg-cramp-moving-and-throbbing

 

http://www.kptv.com/story/36160239/video-shows-painful-leg-cramp-moving-and-throbbing

Oh yeah I want to watch that.

 

http://www.kptv.com/story/36160239/video-shows-painful-leg-cramp-moving-and-throbbing

Ouch! ... A leg cramp woke me up a little before 5 a.m. a couple of days ago... it was very painful...

 

Too many steroids....perhaps.

 

Too many steroids....perhaps.

or demons.

 

or demons.

It's more like a lack of exercise... I got hurt a few months ago and haven't really exercised since... I need to get restarted and catch up

 

It seemed like a good idea.
https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuke...rinting-tickets-63464.php#fGrmr5uDM4DSt4ql.97

Consequently police have temporarily stopped printing traffic tickets for those caught by the intelligent cameras, Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Teeraphol Thipjaroen told The Phuket News.
“Currently, we are facing budget issues as the cost of printing the tickets is expensive, and there are a lot of cases – tens of thousands per month,” Gen Teeraphol said.
“It costs B19 to print one ticket, and when people do not pay them, we have to send more. Altogether, printing tickets has already cost B4-5 million,” he said.
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Statistics from the cameras show March as the month with highest number of no-helmet offenders with nearly 80,000 instances captured by the technology.
April, May, June and July were lower, ranging from 45,000 to about 60,000 no-helmet offences caught each month.
Offenders caught running a red light at all five intersections combined totalled 2,769 in February (the cameras were brought online on Feb 16) rising to 5,142 in May.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/08/the-urban-oil-fields-of-los-angeles/100799/

 

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...to-sporting-event-inside-salami-sandwich.html

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http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...to-sporting-event-inside-salami-sandwich.html

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http://hideyourbooze.com/rumruflfl.html

 

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...to-sporting-event-inside-salami-sandwich.html

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Is that a salami sandwich in your pocket or are you too drunk to see me?

 

http://hideyourbooze.com/rumruflfl.html

We had a man in our sailing group that really liked his beer. All alcohol is prohibited at PA state parks. He had labels made up that looked like soft drinks that he would wrap around beer cans to camouflage them.

Actually as long as you kept the beer out of site and you don't create a problem, they won't come looking for alcohol. All he really needed to do was to poor the beer into a cup and keep the can out of sight. But then again this is the same guy that would hang small blocks of wolmanized wood around his neck claiming it kept insects away.

 

http://www.kptv.com/story/36189552/nutmobile-wiener-mobile-both-spotted-in-tigard?autostart=true

Police told FOX 12 they were both seen at parked outside the Embassy Suites in Tigard. FOX 12 confirmed the operators of the vehicles are guests at the hotel.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/...hack-ensures-hell-never-lose-his-luggage.html

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In order to make sure he never lost sight of his suitcase ever again, one man went to the lengths of actually having his own photo printed on it.