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Sun Sep 27, 2015, 10:58 AM Sep 2015

Almost a Darwin Award winner here...



Driver sets lighter to spider at gas station, burns pump

CENTER LINE, Mich. (AP) – A man with an apparent case of arachnophobia caused a fire at a suburban Detroit gas pump by putting a lighter to what he says was a spider near his fuel door.

WJBK-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1Fqtbo5 ) Saturday that he escaped injury and his vehicle suffered little damage, but the gas pump was destroyed. A clerk shut off the pump from indoors and called the fire department.

The motorist can be heard on the surveillance video at the Center Line station asking: “Is that a spider in there?” The video then shows flames erupting along the car’s side, the pump and the pavement.

http://wbay.com/2015/09/27/driver-sets-lighter-to-spider-at-gas-station-burns-pump/
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Almost a Darwin Award winner here... (Original Post) Archae Sep 2015 OP
Give him time underpants Sep 2015 #1
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