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A Real Gas Station Fire Caused By A Mobile Phone?
from the hmmmmmm... dept
For years, we've been told that all those stories that get passed around by email forwards about exploding fuel pumps due to a ringing mobile phone are simply urban legends. However, now, the Associated Press is reporting a story that sounds remarkably like that urban legend. Has the urban legend become true or was a reporter taken in by a hoax? It appears the Poughkeepsie Journal has the original story, including some quotes from both the "victim" and the fire chief.
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I thought MythBusters disproved that
http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=2&cpi=24344&gid=425&channel=DSC
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Re: I thought MythBusters disproved that
One thing I do know is that a Sprint PCS phone that I had a several years ago had a spark glow internally every time it rang (was pretty audible most of the time as well).
Most of the stuff on the show is neat to see, but some of the conclusions are brought on too quickly without attempting to exhaust even a majority of the possibilities. They are much better at proving that something "can" be done rather than something "can't" be done. Very entertaining show nonetheless.
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Re: I thought MythBusters disproved that
Based on the article, it sounds to me like something else was going on. And the fire department like any other civil servants have little incentive to really dig when there's a simple somewhat plausible answer staring them in the face. Doesn't matter how impossible, if people will believe it, that's one less job they have to do.
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