"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
06/24/2015 at 11:53 • Filed to: None
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"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
06/24/2015 at 11:53 • Filed to: None | 7
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Excuse me, sir. I don’t think those containers are DOT approved for gasoline.
Sir, even non-approved containers should be placed on the ground before filling.... Never mind, I’m leaving anyway.
DipodomysDeserti
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 11:55 |
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Glass bottles work better if you're planning on serving up some Molotov cocktails.
$kaycog
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 11:56 |
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People never cease to amaze me.
ttyymmnn
> DipodomysDeserti
06/24/2015 at 11:58 |
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I wouldn't even stand close enough to take the picture.
and 100 more
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 11:58 |
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Looks like he was on the way to work... Gotta do what you gotta do sometimes.
PS9
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 11:58 |
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I’d buy a gas can if I were stranded and needed fuel. Gotta make do with what you got if no one has that, though.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
06/24/2015 at 12:03 |
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I was refueling when he walked up and started, uh, refueling.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> PS9
06/24/2015 at 12:04 |
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We were at a gas station. You know, where gas cans are usually found inside.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:07 |
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I don’t think they are.
HammerheadFistpunch
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:07 |
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My first thoughts were with ps9, I’ve been to plenty that don’t have cans and without that option...we’ll gotta get by somehow. That having been said, since there ARE cans inside...this man is an idiot.
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ttyymmnn
> HammerheadFistpunch
06/24/2015 at 12:09 |
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Yeah, but he looks sharp. I’ve put gas in plastic before, when I was emptying out my mower, and the gas simply melted the plastic. I guess this is a different sort, though. I hope he didn’t have far to drive, ‘cause that ain’t much gas.
desertdog5051
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:13 |
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Don’t know where you are but around here I have not seen a gas can for sale in any gas station. One would think it would be a seller.
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PS9
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:14 |
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You know, where gas cans are usually found inside *when they are fully stocked.
Fixed. I’ve been inside gas stations too, and the cans sometimes are completely sold out. It turns out that is usually the first buy for people who are stranded and need something to put gas in right now .
Putting gas in water bottles because you’re too impatient/cheap to get available gas cans? Yeah, that’s dumb. Putting gas in water bottles because you’ve walked however many miles to the station from your vehicle, there are no cans in stock at the station and no obvious places around there to get cans (that you can somewhat easily reach on foot) and all you can get are water bottles? Hazardous still, but nobody died and you gotta do what you gotta do.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> ttyymmnn
06/24/2015 at 12:15 |
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yeah, low density polyethylene and even cheap HDPE will be dissolved into the gas in a hurry. Hope this dude is a fast walker.
BrtStlnd
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:18 |
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Holy shit, this is extremely dangerous. I wonder how long before that bottle starts to dissolve.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> PS9
06/24/2015 at 12:23 |
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This wasn’t some unstocked rural station, this was in suburbia. There were two gas stations on that corner. There was an O’Reilly’s less than a block away.
But if you gotta do what you gotta do, at least leave some head space for expansion since these are clearly unvented containers.
Manny05x
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:43 |
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“Let me get 53 cents on pump 1”
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:47 |
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This is wrong on a variety of levels, not least, that when Slick gets back to the office, he’ll be reeking of gasoline.
But in order to dispense gasoline, at least in California (where we have the always helpful California Air Resources Board, or CARB), the foreskin (for lack of a better term) of the dispensing nozzle has to be pushed back. So filling a proper fuel container requires two hands.
It’s bad.
dogisbadob
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:47 |
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gotta clean the bottles to make them nice and shiny :)
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> $kaycog
06/24/2015 at 12:49 |
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He’d make a good Gawker mod.
atrombs
> PS9
06/24/2015 at 12:49 |
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Some places will even let you just borrow one to get your car to the station.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:50 |
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
McMike
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:57 |
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I had to do that with the motorcycle when I forgot to swap the petcock back once..
I walked about a half-mile to the gas station armed with nothing but a dusty Corona bottle and a bent up Monster can. I must have looked like the sixth member of the Village People, the “Adopt a highway guy” as I was picking up bottles and cans on the way to the station in my chaps.
I was loathing at the thought of trying to pump fuel into those little openings, so when I got to the gas station I went inside to see what they had. I was in luck. They had some of those big glass Tea bottles with the big mouths bottles.
I bought it, tried some, spit it out, poured the rest out, and bought 28oz of fuel.
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McMike
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 12:58 |
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$10 says he never made it back to the car with fuel in those.
asenna
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 13:43 |
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asenna
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/24/2015 at 13:44 |
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He must be French he buys his gas 1 liter at a time.
beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/25/2015 at 08:59 |
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he looks too well dressed to be huffing that stuff.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
06/25/2015 at 09:01 |
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Is huffing still a thing? I remember when they were stealing refrigerant to get high.
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beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/25/2015 at 09:10 |
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I see it in some remote areas in Australia still. It’s been reduced dramatically with the introduction of non-sniffable fuel though.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
06/25/2015 at 09:17 |
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Interesting! I never heard of such a thing. A quick google search later and I have been edified!