Dumb and Dumber....they are out there

[Bigprairie1]

Latest near disaster at the local lake marina. Coast Guard regs say that the 'captain' has to refuel the boat...on smaller boats at least. (insurance purposes?...whatever).
Ok a young guy, about 20 brought his 17'-ish ft boat in for refueling. The gas attendant handed him the pump nozzle and away he goes. The attendant looks over about a minute later and the kid is trying to refuel the boat through the top gunwale light receptacle (without the light post in it of course). Yikes. The guy hits the pump off. Apparently this guy put about 10+ litres (2-3 gallons) into his boat through this receptacle.
Luckily nothing more came of this incident other than fuel spillage most of that in the bilge of the boat.
As it turns out...it wasn't his boat. It was his buddies that he borrowed.
Close call for the marine/gas guy tho'. You never know who's lurking out there I guess.

 

[K.C.IMP]

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now that's funny. Just open something and dump some gas in it.

 

[MikDee]

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Wait, You never heard of the old "lightem up, Boom!" trick? turn on your lights, and Boom!,,,lol,,, Maybe he thought it was a jet plane with an "in flight" fueling port!,,,lol,,, I'm glad the attendant was paying attention, and nobody got hurt.

 

[Bigprairie1]

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Wait, You never heard of the old "lightem up, Boom!" trick? turn on your lights, and Boom!,,,lol,,, Maybe he thought it was a jet plane with an "in flight" fueling port!,,,lol,,, I'm glad the attendant was paying attention, and nobody got hurt.

Yeah the attendant guy also manages that small marine and quickly 'pushed' the guy off and away from the dock. He was pretty upset and wanted to make sure the guy didn't do anything more that equally stupid. Such as attempt to start the boat. I gather there was a fair amount of yelling and that seemed to work on this guy.
What a great afternoon project for the guy to figure out how to extract that fuel out of the bilge and fully clean things up. Hopefully he didn't take it back to his owner/buddy like that.

 

[rndn]

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It's unbelievable that these people actually hold down a job, somewhere. Maybe an attorney or politician.

 

[Nova II 260]

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......... Hopefully he didn't take it back to his owner/buddy like that.

... and that evening the owner checked out his boat..

 

[bucky7680]

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What's the big deal? Just take out the drain plug.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Many water holding tanks have been filled over the years

Lucky no one was hurt.

 

[Matthew_B]

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Many water holding tanks have been filled over the years

My uncle told me a story about a boat that blew up when they filled the waste tank with gasoline. It overflowed out the sink and down into the bilge. When the bilge pump kicked on and started pumping gasoline out they figured out they had a problem. My uncle threw the fuel hose and took off as fast as he could in his boat. The attendant hit the fuel shut off and high footed it out of there. Something lit off the fuel about 30 seconds later, the boat burned down to the water line and sank. I think the owner made it out OK.

 

[gonefishie]

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"You'll have to excuse my friend Harry, the town is that way<<<<. Duhh!"