They did not say only store it in the garage. Lots of people do not have garages anyway. Plus the gov even advised people to store more than they are supposed to.

Yes the Gov are not to blame per se for the fire but they perhaps instigated a condition which promoted it.

Quite why they made the announcement can only be guessed at. Perhaps they had the whole country go into petrol chaos mode just for playing politics?

 

Yes i'm sure she always stored petrol at home prior to the advice.

To end, if you can compare being advised to buy petrol to cutting a leg off then jog on.

 

Ok, are you telling me she would normally have access to petrol at home?
She was pouring her stored petrol ffs.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-7602990.html

It's Saturday night and I cant vouch for you but I have better things to do so ciao for now.

Nik.

 

Good grief that's just plain scary

 

I mean that the government has that much power over them, never mind accidents waiting to happen

 

She's more Brisbane than Brazilian now, I'd guess...

J.

 

She drives a car.....she would have presumably been to a petrol station and filled her car up and, in doing so, seen the "WARNING HIGHLY FLAMMABLE - NO NAKED FLAMES" signs! I'd call that knowledge and experience!

It was a moment of stupidity, which has cost the poor lady rather dearly!

Ns "thus petrol vapour and lit gas ovens don't mix" 04

 

In a statement, the motoring organisation said that in Cheshire, one observer had seen an elderly woman using a petrol pump to fill jam jars.

"A lady about 75 was seen filling up 20 empty one-gallon paint tins with plastic lids and also a tray of jam jars in her boot with petrol. She had her boot up so the petrol station staff couldn't see what she was doing.

"AA staff went over to her to stop her. Then station staff came out and prevented her from what she was doing. Her excuse was that 'her husband did it every week'," the organisation said.

Another man was seen at the same petrol station filling one gallon washing-up liquid bottles with fuel.

 

There are sixty million people in the country, probably 50 million adults and they aren't all smart or even of average intelligence, throw in alcohol to make it all worse then it is no surprise that some have problems, even the most clued up person occasionally just misjudges something or bites off more than they can chew. I think people don't really have any contact with petrol, it is to them the magic stuff that makes their car go and the car is nice and civilised isnt it ? all very smooth and quiet, it must be like Baby Lotion this stuff that we put in the tank, think they have an idea that its dangerous but having had no direct experience of it then its hard to quantify, especially for those that think warnings dont apply to them.

I hate dealing with petrol, having had the odd mouthful when siphoning and performed many experiments lighting bonfires and the like I know what its like, it makes me uncomfortable it being around, I am not infallible but I have a healthy respect for this evil substance.

The stupidity and lack of intelligence/education is always there, this has just shown that if you put the need there to interact with it then it will go wrong, it is terrifying that there are pensioners filling Jam Jars, I mean, WTF, surely if retired then your need for travel is reduced (as a rule) and there is no need to go to those lengths, perhaps its a bit of war time programming kicking in. My father in law panics if he doesnt have gallons in the car and in jerry cans, he only goes to Waitrose as far as I know.

 

It must be wonderful to be able to tell us how clever you are because you know all there is to know about safe treatment of petrol and that poor woman didn't. Especially after the mindbendingly stupid advice from the governent!

You must be feeling really proud of yourself also telling us how it made you laugh at the fact that she got so severely burned.

What kind of a person are you to get such pleasure when you heard about her terrible accident?

Les

 

Sensible advice hence the quick u turn, a slating in the press and calls for his resignation.
The fire brigades union didn't think his advice was too sensible either.
And do you think most of the British public are aware of petrol storage laws regarding quantities, I doubt it.
Nik.

 

To blame the govt for this is ridiculous ... she only has herself to blame for pouring petrol in the kitchen with the gas cooker lit

I mean, seriously, how thick do you have to be ... it's fuel, everyone knows it's fuel, there's warnings everywhere at the petrol station about not smoking, naked flames, engine off etc etc

dont tell me she's never seen anything in a film or soap drama about petrol, petrol pumps, cars exploding, seen a molotov cocktail thrown in a film??

a moment of immense stupidity that will affect her for the rest of her life

sympathy? A little, but not a lot.

 

Sympathy - a massive amount, 40% burns... tragic.

But no ones blaming (well I'm not) the HMG - what I'm clearly saying is that when you (the HMG) give out knee jerk advice about storing fuel you should back it up with a couple of warnings, that's all....

I thought you'd all have the common sense to appreciate that - show's that most don't

 

 

Simple scientific rule of cause and effect;

Cause - Stupid person + can of petrol = Effect - A life time of pain and suffering.

I think she's paid enough for her stupidity.

 

I've heard the governement say there is a shortage of booze ........ This ought to be interesting

 

Exactly. Think I made a similar post earlier on, Shexy

 

I agree. I'll admit, there is a part of me that thinks she was stupid, but then, I know the dangers about petrol. But stupid or not, maybe she didn't know just how dangerous it can be and now she is paying for that.

Leading on from an earlier comment about the nanny state, and not liking it, nor do I. I don't like to have my life dictated to me, but it does to a point surprise me that, considering how much the government are trying to do this, that they didn't see fit to put out a warning on how to store petrol safely, given that they were happy enough to encourage panic buying of a product most people don't have alot of real contact with. I'm not suggesting people shouldn't be responsible for themselves, but sadly not everybody does have the knowledge that they maybe should.

 

+1 some people just don't get the concept that the vapour can ignite, and that flame will travel across a room, she is lucky the can didn't go up as well.

As said before an almost empty container is much more dangerous than a full one, i used to do phone installations into petrochem vehicles and they need to be full before we could do them, the none articulated ones.

 

The vapour is the only thing that burns, petrol, the liquid, doesn't.

 

FPMSL, I'm jusht going to drunk this drink and get more some zyder.............

 

There is also a hint of injurylawyers/hadanaccidentwithpetrol?.com contacting the family and suggesting that they will get a massive payout from HMG. After all no-one else could possibly be held responsible except for the woman herself. Wonder if she'll claim for the damage off the house insurance?

 

Unlikely, they'd probably reject it on the grounds of Arson!