How to kill yourself using petrol and a van in 1 easy step..

[Waugh-terfall]

Step 1. Pour your bucket of petrol directly into the carburetor

BOOM!

I kid you not, a group of three US citizens almost proved this factually and scientifically true...

Darwin was obviously taking a day off...

Jalopnik said:

Three people were seriously burned attempting to restart their van by pouring gas from a bucket into a water bottle directly into the van's carburetor. The van started but soon exploded. The flaming motorists then ran... into a gas station.

Darwin's unsuccessful van explosion occurred yesterday in Bellevue, Washington outside of Seattle. There are so many levels of poor thought in this it's a wonder anyone survived. First, the people involved didn't have a gas can so they used an open bucket to store the fuel. Then, After carrying the bucket to the van they filled a water bottle with fuel and poured it directly in the carb. To do this they removed the engine cover in the passenger compartment.

Somehow they managed all of this without setting the van on fire and were able to drive a short distance. Then the van stalled again. On their next attempt to restart it the large amount of fuel vapors within the interior conspired against them and the entire thing blew up.

Oh, but it doesn't end there. From KOMO:

"Other witnesses told police the woman jumped out the back of the van and fell to the ground on fire, and the van rolled over her leg. The two men jumped out in flames and ran toward the Chevron station on the corner desperate to get their fires out. One man made it into the gas station and tried to douse himself with water."

Seriously, if this van's a-rocking run for your lives... and don't run into a gas station.

Jalopnik - Want to die? Restart your engine like these idiots...

[Acheron]

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

[PHuzzy]

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

It's a constant ball of fire that rotates around the engine to keep the fuel burning

How can you be on PH and not know what a carb is/does?

[Stu R]

PHuzzy said:

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

It's a constant ball of fire that rotates around the engine to keep the fuel burning

How can you be on PH and not know what a carb is/does?

I'd take a bet that most people on PH couldn't without using Google.

Edited by Stu R on Tuesday 25th January 03:04

[PHuzzy]

Stu R said:

PHuzzy said:

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

It's a constant ball of fire that rotates around the engine to keep the fuel burning

How can you be on PH and not know what a carb is/does?

I'd take a bet that most people on PH couldn't without using Google.

Edited by Stu R on Tuesday 25th January 03:04

I'd say at least 75% of them would know and I'd be disappointed if it were less than that

[Pigeon]

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

Why?

[va1o]

I don't fully know what a carburettor does

[pinchmeimdreamin]

Dont they have easy start in the US ?

[mgtony]

"Other witnesses told police the woman jumped out the back of the van" From a burnt dayvan emerges a Fire-bird.

[skene]

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

How old are you? I knew exactly what they did at age 13.

[pinchmeimdreamin]

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

Have you never heard mention of Twin Webbers, Twin SU's, Dellorto's and even wondered ?

[varsas]

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

Does that mean you also don't know what a choke is?

[Camaro91]

A carburettor is something that makes your car run like a sack of spanners in cold weather and usually requires constant adjustment, floats changing, gunk cleaning out etc.

However the rather cool plus side is it gives your car that lovely petrol-rich classic car smell that you get when a muscle car or suchlike rumbles past! Heaven

[thinfourth2]

I do exactly that on a regular basis

Pour a tiny sip of fuel down the carb to get the old dog of a landrover going, also works brilliantly on iffy old lawnmowers

But admittedly i didn't use a bucket.

And folk can't be serious they don't know what a carb is?

[mybrainhurts]

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

[stewjohnst]

Takes me back to the days of teaspooning petrol into the top of my old fiesta's carb to get it going on cold mornings...also recall getting it wrong at least once and flapping at the flames in the engine bay with a tea-towel small fry compared to these clowns though.

[Superhoop]

varsas said:

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

Does that mean you also don't know what a choke is?

Now that's just mean, of course he knows what a choke is....

He what he gets his gf to do to him just before she pulls the plastic off his head at the err critical moment

[kieranjholland]

These guys really did deserve a Darwin award, I love the fact their first thought was to run into a petrol station (not that I profess to knowing exactly what to do whislt on fire... )

[60]

skene said:

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.

How old are you? I knew exactly what they did at age 13.

+1 How can you not know that.

[wackojacko]

mybrainhurts said:

Acheron said:

Im kind of glad that im not old enough to know what a carburettor does on a car.