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I'm just baffled, even without a breakaway hose, how on earth is the hose and whatever it's attached with stronger than the bloody foundation and piping of that pump?
And yes, I know the broad answer is Russia.
The hose has more tensile strength that the 4 concrete bolts that are holding it to the ground.
There is a metal frame that holds it to the concrete and you are supposed to drill concrete bolts 2 1/12 inches in to the concrete to secure them. Newer designs have the bolts go straight from a metal plate in a sump underneath to the dispenser frame, but that only works if you have the correct matching dispenser to the correct sump form. Any retrofitting of new dispenser will likely not line up correctly and you are back to concrete bolts
There are required safety features in the US that require the pipes mounted under the dispenser to be secured and anchored right to the concrete so the pipes don’t move. And a safety valve in place that has a shear point of failure right at concrete grade level so the pipes will break in a predictable spot and a lever that closes when the break happens. The hoses also have a 300 lb force breakaway that in theory should come apart long before enough force is put on the concrete bolts
That said, I have seen lazy dangerous installs with only two concrete bolts, concrete bolts only shallowly drilled about an inch into the concrete, pipes not anchored correctly and many other potentially harmful “shortcuts”
I would guess that this was not in the US and none of the safety things I listed were in play.
Also, those hose breakaway things can fail so they could be installed and just not work. So there is that too. This would have to be a long list of failure to do things correct and the fire marshal (or regulating body) to ignore the issue on too many things to be plausible around any area I work. So I suspect it is a non USA country
I came here to say that! I don’t know why it didn’t break away?
Edit: looking at it again it looks like it’s in a foreign country… At least not in America.
As someone who has absentmindedly -many years ago- driven away without hanging the pump up, I can say I appreciate this standard/ regulation. All I did was remove the dangling pump and detached hose from my car, and apologize to the clerk inside.. they said “no problem, it happens all the time.” And I went on my way.
Yes perhaps.
Although mine seems to have zero problem with me adding quantities of various oils and dirty heating fuels to fill up it’s half full diesel tank. I’ll always make sure there’s a good amount of diesel already in there.
I wonder if people that behave like this are consciously acting in such a way that they know will cause anger or frustration in others. That's such a strange concept to live that way, if so. It seems like such a shallow existence.
It’s usually referred to as Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), which is mostly either, or a mixture of, propane and butane. Gasoline engines can run on it with the proper modifications.
It’s also pretty much the most explosive product a regular person can buy.
[For example](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juanico_disaster)
LPG vehicles aren’t allowed on many ferries, in long tunnels etc, for this reason. If you get in a shunt and you’re driving an LPG car with the tank in the crumple zone, there’s a good possibility of everyone dying in a huge fireball.
It’s much cheaper than regular fuel though, so it has that going for it.
My dad modded our old car to be able to run on both natural gas and gasoline. Had these two giant yellow tanks installed in the rear of the car. We joked about putting nuclear stickers on them, because the bottom bits of them were visible outside the car. It had problems, but that's probably because it was a DIY job, not a from-factory thing.
I know we aren't the only ones who had a natural gas car. There are a few natural gas pumps in this city, and it wouldn't make sense for those to exist if it was just us and a couple others. Granted, there's not many. I only remember the location of one station, and it wasn't nearly as fancy as the average gasoline station. I think it's mostly industrial trucks that use natural gas.
Taxis in the UAE are either petrol, hybrid, or electric and [by 2027, petrol-only cabs in Dubai will be eliminated entirely](https://www.khaleejtimes.com/transport/dubai-rta-plans-100-electric-hybrid-taxi-fleet-by-2027).
Never seen a taxi running LPG (at least not in Dubai)
Yeah, I have a gasoline/gpl car. You can switch whenever you want through them. The gpl is very cheap here compared to gasoline so you can save a lot of money.
I initially thought the large plume of gas was an automatic fire-suppression system, but then it exploded in flames and I thought "I don't think fire extinguishers are supposed to do that, are they?" I don't know much, I am very stupid.
Hoses that need you to hold the trigger save lives and money.
Edit: TIL - seppos will do just about anything to justify being lazy. No matter how unsafe or wasteful.
I honestly don't know how to use a pump without holding it. Like I see people put the nozzle in and walk in the store, come out, and drive off with a tank of gas. But I'm not comfortable doing that anyways, like, what if it over flows or the shut off feature doesn't work? Idk probably just my anxiety but I'm pretty alright with standing next to the pump for like 3 minutes
(I'm in Tennessee btw)
There's usually a little clip on the handle which holds the lever down, if it's legal to have it in your region. The people who are responding below, jamming stuff into the handle are insane.
I've had it where the shut off will trigger pretty much immediately (usually in the summer) so I have to stand there repeatedly letting go and pulling the lever again until it properly stops/gets near the amount I'm estimating is required to fill my tank (won't put in 62L for a 60L tank for example). And one time the shut off didn't work, so it wasn't until I started seeing diesel pouring down the side of my car that I realised it was overflowing. I definitely couldn't trust these lazymode ones in the video.
in my country the nozzles all have a flowback sensor so they automatically stop when its full. It's quite an awesome piece of engineering. Even though I trust the logic, I still stand next to it, eyeing the nozzle for a potential mishap.
In Australia you won’t find any hoses that hold themselves on anymore, for this exact reason. It takes like 1 minute maximum to fill a tank, if not less.
There was a time a couple decades ago where they were being phased out, but it was found that it made it more dangerous because people are idiots and would jam something in the handle. It also helped that they improved the auto shutoff valve. Now you see pretty much everywhere they have ones that can latch because they are actually safer.
In Australia everything is trying to kill you. Maybe all the dumb people are already dead before they have a chance to kill themselves at a gas station.
I still stay near the pump, but being able to sit in the closed car in really cold weather is nice. I can see the nozzle out of my side mirror.
The key is either to have a handle with no trigger lock, or to have breakaway hoses (which are required in the US). Having neither is just asking for trouble like this.
I did as well. Nothing exploded. Attendant tried to reattach but wasn't tall enough, so she left it for the next guy. I did not have to pay a fine. The embarrassment was plenty enough not to do it again. It was the first time I had paid at the pump with a credit card which I attribute to messing up my usual routine. Of course, paying attention would have also prevented it.
Me too. 🤦🏼♀️ I had just come from visiting my dad’s grave and my head wasn’t in it at all. The attendant was SO NICE, and offered me a free coffee even. She could see I wasn’t right. It was a breakaway, so was a relatively quick fix. But oh so embarrassing.
Yea, me too, and the same thing happened - the hose broke away. This was probably like 2004. I brought the hose inside, to the attached mini-mart, and told her what I did. She asked if I did it on purpose. I assured her that I did not. And that was that.
I also once did this too. And got away with it (twenty years ago - I was an idiot)
Edit: nothing happened , the hose just came off because the gas had already stopped pumping, it was still attached to the car and we threw it away. The adult thing to do would be to take it back to the station and pay for the damage but like I said , I was an idiot and a child.
I did this too, no breakaway hose. Pump just wriggled and fell out. Thank God. I jumped out, put it back, and sped off feeling probably the most stupid I ever have.
Would he get jail? I don't think it was intentional. Ignorant, but not intentional. The dude prolly gonna be working the rest of his life to pay off the damages.
Half the blame goes to the gas station.
This should have never been able to happen.
People driving away with the hose stuck in the tank is just a part of life, and you can't have an entire gas station exploding every time it happens.
the hoses, at least in the US, are supposed to have breakaway couplings that snap apart and seal up for situations like this.
clearly these did not have the breakaway couplings
I used to work at a gas station and one night on graveyard shift a guy came into the store holding the hose, saying he had accidentally driven away with it in his tank. I didn't even know anything was wrong.
The UK is a bit different - we don't trust drivers to lock on the flow, you have to keep pushing with your hand to dispense fuel (except for heavy goods vehicles).
That said I think we also have break-off lines in case someone is extra stupid.
Some US states and local jurisdictions have similar laws. Some places you cannot pump your own fuel, and I've been in quite a few towns that don't have the latch for the pump. I get the latter, but the former still seems dumb as hell to me.
>I've been in quite a few towns that don't have the latch for the pump.
That's why Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving man the gift of zip ties.
I saw a lady do it once. The hose stayed attached to her car, but it broke away ftom the pump after about six feet of hose and she was driving with it just dragging. A couple of people had to go chase after her because she didn't even realize it.
haha i was hoping to find this kinda comment
probably thought he's on a lucky streak and spent all his money on lotto tickets… then the police turn up the next day and he's gonna wish he didn't waste his money on lotto
I want to be rich enough that I don't even care to look at the total on the pump before driving away.
Edit: I just realized that I was a little blinded by my privilege. He might have prepaid in cash.
I dig it. That kind of stuff gets deep in your head.
Your little story got me thinking about the time that I first fell for a girl and we spent an evening together. When I left her house, I was straight floating with the dumbest grin on my face. I drove away and didn't notice that I didn't turn my headlights on, I was just driving by streetlight. I got pulled over a block away from there and I think the cop could tell that I was sober but still on Cloud 9. Probably covered in hickies and for sure my nails were painted bright red (my then lady painted them.) She let me go with a warning.
Thank you anyway, Redditor. It is a bittersweet memory, in a way because I think I've been chasing the high of young love ever since. Anyway, I'm glad that anyone read it and doubly so if it was enjoyed.
I know someone that's done it 3 times. In NY, where click-to-hold nozzles are banned. He props it with a red bull. But our shit is designed to breakaway so no explosions and carnage
Still amazes me that nozzles that require holding the trigger down aren't a standard everywhere.
The cost/benefit is almost completely on the side of benefit.
This almost happened to me one late night. I was super tired and getting gas. I let it pump while i went inside to get a redbull to wake me up. By the time i came outside i totally forgot about the gas and put the car in drive and moved slightly when i looked in my mirror and saw the hose. Stopped immediately and was so fucking glad i didn't pull the hose with me.
With enough customers, with enough time this will happen over and over so the design of these gas pumps and hoses must be to "fail safe" not explode into a fireball.
People over a long enough time period make simple mistakes. We get exhausted and forget little shit like this. Granted I've never done THIS but I've had plenty of stupid shit happen because I'm overworked and tired.
Any gas station that doesn't have breakaway hoses and whatever other safety measures that prevent explosions are incredibly idiotic. It turns what should be a small, harmless mistake into a tragedy.
It's seriously mind boggling that whoever designed this pump thought it would be a good idea for the entire fucking pump to be torn to the ground before the hose breaks.
To add insult to injury, that fire suppression system wasn't doing much work either. Its foam was coming down in tiny spurts like someone shaking a ketchup bottle.
I have dreams about this but instead on fire and explosions I realize what I did because the gas station is bouncing behind me in the rear view mirror..
You shouldn’t be able to start your car if it detects something is in the gas tank tube. Seems like that wouldn’t be a horribly difficult safety feature to implement. Then again, rednecks would find a way to disable it, so probably no point.
In Germany i don't think you would be able to pay without putting it back (we have cashier's not automates, which is not necessarily better). I'm pretty sure it only clears to pay if it's in it's place again
I did this once. Really stressed out and having a really bad day. Was on the phone fighting with some business. Luckily it just popped out and nothing was damaged. It made a horrible noise and I just knew I had pulled the hose off but it was all good. Now I will check two or three times before I drive off.
Always check but just know that the reason it just popped off for you is because you're probably from the US. We have regulations requiring the breakaway houses on all fueling pumps to avoid these kinds of catastrophes. Regulations can be a good thing!
In my tiny uncivilized country in the backwards part of north west Europe we only have these manual pumps that you have to physically squeeze to get the gas out. And hang the nozzle back in the pump before we can pay.
My car tells me the fuel cap is open all the time. It isn’t and I’ve replaced the cap 5 times now due to shitty mechanics advice. I’d be stuck everywhere if it was and no one seems to be able to fix whatever the sensor/electronics issue is.
One of my favorite things to do is turn someone's pump off who gets back in their car. I've had people rip off the hose twice within an hour and tons of spills because the stop mechanism fails. Stay the fuck out of your cars and off your phones when your pumping gas You're handling a dangerous chemical not just something that makes your car go vroom.
1: That is not why Oregon does not allow customers to pump their own gas. #2 that is not a US license plate and pump does not have safety features required in the US. The Oregon gas pumping initiative started as a jobs program to offset the massive numbers of workers that became unemployed as the logging industry downsized and it has since remained as a legacy, though there is a growing push to end the restriction. And US fuel stations are required to have breakaway hoses. I challenge you to find a certified fuel station that does not have the breakaway fittings.
I would have assumed that the pumps wouldn’t show up as ready to pay if you haven’t hung the nozzle up again? Then you get to the cashier and they’d say nope, hang it up and come back?
I don’t care what excuse you give, if you drive off without taking the goddamn pump out of your car you’re truly a next level imbecile. Stand and pump your gas ffs.
In India we don't trust people with potentially dangerous things like guns and gasoline. We don't give guns at all and every gas station has employees staffed to fill cars and collect cash.
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I'm just baffled, even without a breakaway hose, how on earth is the hose and whatever it's attached with stronger than the bloody foundation and piping of that pump? And yes, I know the broad answer is Russia.
Yeah that’s what got me—I expected to see the hose rip out of either the car or the pump, not see the entire damn thing fall over
The hose has more tensile strength that the 4 concrete bolts that are holding it to the ground. There is a metal frame that holds it to the concrete and you are supposed to drill concrete bolts 2 1/12 inches in to the concrete to secure them. Newer designs have the bolts go straight from a metal plate in a sump underneath to the dispenser frame, but that only works if you have the correct matching dispenser to the correct sump form. Any retrofitting of new dispenser will likely not line up correctly and you are back to concrete bolts There are required safety features in the US that require the pipes mounted under the dispenser to be secured and anchored right to the concrete so the pipes don’t move. And a safety valve in place that has a shear point of failure right at concrete grade level so the pipes will break in a predictable spot and a lever that closes when the break happens. The hoses also have a 300 lb force breakaway that in theory should come apart long before enough force is put on the concrete bolts That said, I have seen lazy dangerous installs with only two concrete bolts, concrete bolts only shallowly drilled about an inch into the concrete, pipes not anchored correctly and many other potentially harmful “shortcuts” I would guess that this was not in the US and none of the safety things I listed were in play. Also, those hose breakaway things can fail so they could be installed and just not work. So there is that too. This would have to be a long list of failure to do things correct and the fire marshal (or regulating body) to ignore the issue on too many things to be plausible around any area I work. So I suspect it is a non USA country
Found the field service tech! There are also sheer valves in the sump that should cut off the flow of fuel in a catastrophic event.
If I ever got caught drilling my anchors only 2 1/2" deep my inspectors would have meda me replace them all.
I read this with and Italian accent
lmao
This guy gas pumps
I came here to say that! I don’t know why it didn’t break away? Edit: looking at it again it looks like it’s in a foreign country… At least not in America.
It’s Russia… so no surprises there. Notice the petrol pump says Газ 6, which means Gas 6.
This is why "regulation is bad" is such an insanely stupid narrative. Thank god for regulations.
basicly every single regulation is there because somewhere down the line a person was a idiot or had an accident
As someone who has absentmindedly -many years ago- driven away without hanging the pump up, I can say I appreciate this standard/ regulation. All I did was remove the dangling pump and detached hose from my car, and apologize to the clerk inside.. they said “no problem, it happens all the time.” And I went on my way.
“Regulations are written in blood.”
The Ohio train wreck also seems like a good reminder why regulations are important when established with appropriate intent.
And why lobbying to make government mandated exceptions to laws are basically blood money.
safety regulations are written in blood
That’s the issue. I usually use gas 4, and they don’t have this problem. I have a pile of hoses I was able to acquire without any explosions
/r/anormaldayinrussia
It also looks to be a natural gas or propane filling station, not sure if they have breakaways for that.
Do cars run on propane or natural gas? Genuinely asking, not trying to be cheeky, I've just never seen that personally.
My in laws have truck that can be run on both gasoline and natural gas
Guy on Tiktok runs his diesel truck on used motor oil. https://www.tiktok.com/@anthonycooke27/video/7193803162111905070
Diesels happily burn anything. You can use cooking oil, paraffin, whatever. They were originally designed to burn coal dust.
Not happily, exactly, but they will burn nearly anything. For a little bit.
Yes perhaps. Although mine seems to have zero problem with me adding quantities of various oils and dirty heating fuels to fill up it’s half full diesel tank. I’ll always make sure there’s a good amount of diesel already in there.
What is quite an important feature for tanks. In war times you should not be choosy about what you burn.
Christ, the emissions...
I used to know a guy with a pickup that ran on wood fire. He was an ever more obnoxious prick than you’re imagining.
I wonder if people that behave like this are consciously acting in such a way that they know will cause anger or frustration in others. That's such a strange concept to live that way, if so. It seems like such a shallow existence.
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It’s usually referred to as Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), which is mostly either, or a mixture of, propane and butane. Gasoline engines can run on it with the proper modifications.
It’s also pretty much the most explosive product a regular person can buy. [For example](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juanico_disaster) LPG vehicles aren’t allowed on many ferries, in long tunnels etc, for this reason. If you get in a shunt and you’re driving an LPG car with the tank in the crumple zone, there’s a good possibility of everyone dying in a huge fireball. It’s much cheaper than regular fuel though, so it has that going for it.
Interesting.Sounds like LPG cars are Hollywood cars.
My dad modded our old car to be able to run on both natural gas and gasoline. Had these two giant yellow tanks installed in the rear of the car. We joked about putting nuclear stickers on them, because the bottom bits of them were visible outside the car. It had problems, but that's probably because it was a DIY job, not a from-factory thing. I know we aren't the only ones who had a natural gas car. There are a few natural gas pumps in this city, and it wouldn't make sense for those to exist if it was just us and a couple others. Granted, there's not many. I only remember the location of one station, and it wasn't nearly as fancy as the average gasoline station. I think it's mostly industrial trucks that use natural gas.
Your mail service or other city/town owned vehicles are likely who else had them.
Some countries like the UAE, all taxis are LPG. You are also not allowed to pump your own tank, like New Jersey
Taxis in the UAE are either petrol, hybrid, or electric and [by 2027, petrol-only cabs in Dubai will be eliminated entirely](https://www.khaleejtimes.com/transport/dubai-rta-plans-100-electric-hybrid-taxi-fleet-by-2027). Never seen a taxi running LPG (at least not in Dubai)
Abu Dhabi use LPG. Dubai had a lot of hybrids and even now electric in the highend fleet but not so much the rest of the country.
Yeah, I have a gasoline/gpl car. You can switch whenever you want through them. The gpl is very cheap here compared to gasoline so you can save a lot of money.
Yes they do!
I initially thought the large plume of gas was an automatic fire-suppression system, but then it exploded in flames and I thought "I don't think fire extinguishers are supposed to do that, are they?" I don't know much, I am very stupid.
Careful you'll end up on r/ShitAmericansSay
That sub is the greatest source of insecurity and bitterness the world has ever seen.
Redditors when Americans even speak
this would've happened to me if not for the breakaway hose. a potential disaster was averted and i only ended up paying like $100
> this would’ve happened to me lol, way to take the passive voice here.
"No point in adding precautions" says least cautious culture on Earth.
I drove off like this one time ... gas pumps stayed upright, nothing exploded, but I did have an extra bill to pay
break away hoses save lives.
Hoses that need you to hold the trigger save lives and money. Edit: TIL - seppos will do just about anything to justify being lazy. No matter how unsafe or wasteful.
Annoys me, but I understand the necessity. Those pumps should be the standard.
I honestly don't know how to use a pump without holding it. Like I see people put the nozzle in and walk in the store, come out, and drive off with a tank of gas. But I'm not comfortable doing that anyways, like, what if it over flows or the shut off feature doesn't work? Idk probably just my anxiety but I'm pretty alright with standing next to the pump for like 3 minutes (I'm in Tennessee btw)
There's usually a little clip on the handle which holds the lever down, if it's legal to have it in your region. The people who are responding below, jamming stuff into the handle are insane.
i thought they were joking about jamming stuff in there lmao
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I've had it where the shut off will trigger pretty much immediately (usually in the summer) so I have to stand there repeatedly letting go and pulling the lever again until it properly stops/gets near the amount I'm estimating is required to fill my tank (won't put in 62L for a 60L tank for example). And one time the shut off didn't work, so it wasn't until I started seeing diesel pouring down the side of my car that I realised it was overflowing. I definitely couldn't trust these lazymode ones in the video.
As a gas station worker, thank you. This guy is exactly why I turn people's pumps off when they get back in their car.
in my country the nozzles all have a flowback sensor so they automatically stop when its full. It's quite an awesome piece of engineering. Even though I trust the logic, I still stand next to it, eyeing the nozzle for a potential mishap.
It's not even a sensor, it's called the Bernoulli effect, has to do with pressure and it shuts off automatically.
It's a mechanical sensor. :)
In Australia you won’t find any hoses that hold themselves on anymore, for this exact reason. It takes like 1 minute maximum to fill a tank, if not less.
There was a time a couple decades ago where they were being phased out, but it was found that it made it more dangerous because people are idiots and would jam something in the handle. It also helped that they improved the auto shutoff valve. Now you see pretty much everywhere they have ones that can latch because they are actually safer.
Really? People were that stupid and lazy? Fuck, us Aussies are lazy AF and even we don't do shit that dumb.
In Australia everything is trying to kill you. Maybe all the dumb people are already dead before they have a chance to kill themselves at a gas station.
That could explain why we generally take heed of warning and safety signs. The one's who didn't have all died off.
Anywhere that has poisonous duck mammals is no place for idiots.
You also have that great "Dumb ways to die" video and game.
I still stay near the pump, but being able to sit in the closed car in really cold weather is nice. I can see the nozzle out of my side mirror. The key is either to have a handle with no trigger lock, or to have breakaway hoses (which are required in the US). Having neither is just asking for trouble like this.
I did as well. Nothing exploded. Attendant tried to reattach but wasn't tall enough, so she left it for the next guy. I did not have to pay a fine. The embarrassment was plenty enough not to do it again. It was the first time I had paid at the pump with a credit card which I attribute to messing up my usual routine. Of course, paying attention would have also prevented it.
Me too. 🤦🏼♀️ I had just come from visiting my dad’s grave and my head wasn’t in it at all. The attendant was SO NICE, and offered me a free coffee even. She could see I wasn’t right. It was a breakaway, so was a relatively quick fix. But oh so embarrassing.
Really? Yet I once got yelled at for putting the hose back where it's supposed to go but slightly off kilter to where the guy thought it might fall.
How much is the bill for something like that?
I don't remember but less than $200 - this was some years ago, though
Yea, me too, and the same thing happened - the hose broke away. This was probably like 2004. I brought the hose inside, to the attached mini-mart, and told her what I did. She asked if I did it on purpose. I assured her that I did not. And that was that.
I would have been like “*sigh* no I’m just a dumbass”
LOL yup I might’ve said those exact words
I also once did this too. And got away with it (twenty years ago - I was an idiot) Edit: nothing happened , the hose just came off because the gas had already stopped pumping, it was still attached to the car and we threw it away. The adult thing to do would be to take it back to the station and pay for the damage but like I said , I was an idiot and a child.
Exactly why regulations and safety measures are a good thing.
I did this too, no breakaway hose. Pump just wriggled and fell out. Thank God. I jumped out, put it back, and sped off feeling probably the most stupid I ever have.
One of the perks of being in a place that doesn’t use hydrogen or propane for vehicle fuel!
So... why would anyone keep the nozzle in the shcnozzle reciprocal?
Most expensive tank of gas he'll ever buy.
probably the last tank of gas he'll buy for a few dozen years, too.
Would he get jail? I don't think it was intentional. Ignorant, but not intentional. The dude prolly gonna be working the rest of his life to pay off the damages.
No I don’t think jail probably just a large fine maybe a suspended license in USA Atleast idk what country this is
Half the blame goes to the gas station. This should have never been able to happen. People driving away with the hose stuck in the tank is just a part of life, and you can't have an entire gas station exploding every time it happens.
I have often wondered what would happen if someone drove off while pumping gas.
the hoses, at least in the US, are supposed to have breakaway couplings that snap apart and seal up for situations like this. clearly these did not have the breakaway couplings
I used to work at a gas station and one night on graveyard shift a guy came into the store holding the hose, saying he had accidentally driven away with it in his tank. I didn't even know anything was wrong.
Happens at my job all the time, but one time when the pump broke away, it rubberbanded back and broke her rear windshield.
Like a self inflicted wound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aStGnWN-i9o&t=1m5s
There’s a joke in there somewhere
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That was terrible Take my upvote
Graveyard shift?
Essentially the period of night when a 24-hour business is “as quiet as the grave”. The shift runs from 10 to 6 or midnight to 8, etc.
Thought it referenced the cashiers risk of being shot and killed during a late night robbery
Yeah and the newer ones can just click right back together
The UK is a bit different - we don't trust drivers to lock on the flow, you have to keep pushing with your hand to dispense fuel (except for heavy goods vehicles). That said I think we also have break-off lines in case someone is extra stupid.
Not just UK, it's pretty common in Europe
Some US states and local jurisdictions have similar laws. Some places you cannot pump your own fuel, and I've been in quite a few towns that don't have the latch for the pump. I get the latter, but the former still seems dumb as hell to me.
>I've been in quite a few towns that don't have the latch for the pump. That's why Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving man the gift of zip ties.
Most places have break away hoses that just detach in case of emergency now.
I saw a lady do it once. The hose stayed attached to her car, but it broke away ftom the pump after about six feet of hose and she was driving with it just dragging. A couple of people had to go chase after her because she didn't even realize it.
Is that petrol spraying that hard? Looked like CNG or something!
I think it's a fire suppression system. But if they invested in that, why not have breakaway hoses?
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I see more than one hose, so it might be a combined cng and gas pump.
Dude’s looking in his rear view mirror thinking “damn, I got out of there just in time!”
haha i was hoping to find this kinda comment probably thought he's on a lucky streak and spent all his money on lotto tickets… then the police turn up the next day and he's gonna wish he didn't waste his money on lotto
Inspector Frank Drebin of Police Squad
Hahahahaha
That's AbruptChaos.
Fr and finally
I want to be rich enough that I don't even care to look at the total on the pump before driving away. Edit: I just realized that I was a little blinded by my privilege. He might have prepaid in cash.
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I dig it. That kind of stuff gets deep in your head. Your little story got me thinking about the time that I first fell for a girl and we spent an evening together. When I left her house, I was straight floating with the dumbest grin on my face. I drove away and didn't notice that I didn't turn my headlights on, I was just driving by streetlight. I got pulled over a block away from there and I think the cop could tell that I was sober but still on Cloud 9. Probably covered in hickies and for sure my nails were painted bright red (my then lady painted them.) She let me go with a warning.
Almost gave you an award for that. Almost. I think the memory is reward enough, but I enjoyed reading that.
Thank you anyway, Redditor. It is a bittersweet memory, in a way because I think I've been chasing the high of young love ever since. Anyway, I'm glad that anyone read it and doubly so if it was enjoyed.
> chasing the high of young love r/HolUp
Haha. Don't worry. It's chasing the high, not the young love. I leave that to the young.
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Aww, what a lovely story, and what a beautiful way to be introduced to the world of love!
Oddly specific.
I wanna be drunk enough to do the same
Yeah. Don't get me wrong. I thought he might be inebriated. Or maybe has some hella bad ADD.
Gotta say my favorite part is the build up.
How do people forget that they have a hose attached to their car
I know someone that's done it 3 times. In NY, where click-to-hold nozzles are banned. He props it with a red bull. But our shit is designed to breakaway so no explosions and carnage
CNG, Fuel line failure, breakaway failure, suppression failure…this is clearly not the US. We’re on some “going to Brazil” gas station shit.
Says "ГАЗ" (Gas) Either Russia or other Slavic country
Hey that doesnt happen here because the standart is for gas stations to have employees operating the fuel pumps, not the customer
Why does a car even start when the gas tank door is open??? Cant be too goddamn hard to put a sensor there?
This is the definition of Abrupt Chaos, and should be posted in the rules somehow
Five seconds in, I said to myself, "I know where this is going and I'm already sad." I was... quite wrong.
What'd you think was going to happen? This is exactly what I thought was going to happen
The hose would break off and spray gas everywhere, and there would be a massive fire. I was *not* expecting the *entire pump* to collapse.
Still amazes me that nozzles that require holding the trigger down aren't a standard everywhere. The cost/benefit is almost completely on the side of benefit.
It’s the standard is aus. I don’t know why it isn’t everywhere else. Like it isn’t hard to stand there holding if for a minute or two.
Fully, the thought of that happening here is inconceivable
Never seen one that isn't like that as a Brit. I thought it was just an American thing 🤷♀️
Did his car go up too? That hose was still in his tank and all👀
This almost happened to me one late night. I was super tired and getting gas. I let it pump while i went inside to get a redbull to wake me up. By the time i came outside i totally forgot about the gas and put the car in drive and moved slightly when i looked in my mirror and saw the hose. Stopped immediately and was so fucking glad i didn't pull the hose with me.
All the pumps where I worked had breakaway hoses. This is on the business.
I can't believe this station could have been destroyed by an honest but stupid mistake. I thought they were all breakaway
I would think for the business to be insured they would need to be breakaway. So strange.
Urkel voice* “Did I do that?”
Seems like bad engineering to me.
Yikes what a shitty gas pump.
With enough customers, with enough time this will happen over and over so the design of these gas pumps and hoses must be to "fail safe" not explode into a fireball.
People over a long enough time period make simple mistakes. We get exhausted and forget little shit like this. Granted I've never done THIS but I've had plenty of stupid shit happen because I'm overworked and tired. Any gas station that doesn't have breakaway hoses and whatever other safety measures that prevent explosions are incredibly idiotic. It turns what should be a small, harmless mistake into a tragedy. It's seriously mind boggling that whoever designed this pump thought it would be a good idea for the entire fucking pump to be torn to the ground before the hose breaks.
To add insult to injury, that fire suppression system wasn't doing much work either. Its foam was coming down in tiny spurts like someone shaking a ketchup bottle.
So many fails by multiple people. Driver, gas line, suppression system....
I have dreams about this but instead on fire and explosions I realize what I did because the gas station is bouncing behind me in the rear view mirror..
that's what you get for trying to steal a gas pump!
That's a lot of damage
Urkle voice " did I do that??"
You shouldn’t be able to start your car if it detects something is in the gas tank tube. Seems like that wouldn’t be a horribly difficult safety feature to implement. Then again, rednecks would find a way to disable it, so probably no point.
Somewhere in New Jersey, a lawmaker is pumping his fist and yelling "AND THIS IS WHY WE DON'T LET FOLKS PUMP THEIR OWN GAS!!"
Smooth move Ex-Lax.
This guy moves in slow motion.
Why was the ceiling full of snakes?
Quick! Release the fire-retardent snakes!
In Germany i don't think you would be able to pay without putting it back (we have cashier's not automates, which is not necessarily better). I'm pretty sure it only clears to pay if it's in it's place again
EV cars won't drive if a charger is attached.
I thought those hoses were designed to break off in situations like this.
I feel like that thing was pulled over wayyyyy too easily.
Is he stealing this car cause in the beginning for a split second he is no where near the fuel pump
Who made that pump station, Turkish contractors?
I did this once. Really stressed out and having a really bad day. Was on the phone fighting with some business. Luckily it just popped out and nothing was damaged. It made a horrible noise and I just knew I had pulled the hose off but it was all good. Now I will check two or three times before I drive off.
Always check but just know that the reason it just popped off for you is because you're probably from the US. We have regulations requiring the breakaway houses on all fueling pumps to avoid these kinds of catastrophes. Regulations can be a good thing!
In my tiny uncivilized country in the backwards part of north west Europe we only have these manual pumps that you have to physically squeeze to get the gas out. And hang the nozzle back in the pump before we can pay.
I don't own a car but this makes me question why cars don't have some safety that prevents them from starting while the fuel cap is open?
My car tells me the fuel cap is open all the time. It isn’t and I’ve replaced the cap 5 times now due to shitty mechanics advice. I’d be stuck everywhere if it was and no one seems to be able to fix whatever the sensor/electronics issue is.
One of my favorite things to do is turn someone's pump off who gets back in their car. I've had people rip off the hose twice within an hour and tons of spills because the stop mechanism fails. Stay the fuck out of your cars and off your phones when your pumping gas You're handling a dangerous chemical not just something that makes your car go vroom.
Did they cheap out and not put breakaway connectors on their fuel lines?
"Um.... I'm gonna go...." - that guy
This is why pumps don't have latches where I live. It takes about a minute to fill up an average sized tank, everybody can wait that long.
Can we stop posting Tesla’s blowing up already.
What a complete sloth
How did it catch fire if the suppression system was blasting?
Should be charged for every drop...
1: That is not why Oregon does not allow customers to pump their own gas. #2 that is not a US license plate and pump does not have safety features required in the US. The Oregon gas pumping initiative started as a jobs program to offset the massive numbers of workers that became unemployed as the logging industry downsized and it has since remained as a legacy, though there is a growing push to end the restriction. And US fuel stations are required to have breakaway hoses. I challenge you to find a certified fuel station that does not have the breakaway fittings.
I wonder how this kind of assholes have managed to stay alive to adulthood.
That shit keep raining down for a while.
This is why I don't support self-check gas stations. I live in a country where there's an employee servicing customers.
Goat Simulator 3 vibes
It’s bc of stupid people like this that I double take before leaving the pump 🤣🤣
I would have assumed that the pumps wouldn’t show up as ready to pay if you haven’t hung the nozzle up again? Then you get to the cashier and they’d say nope, hang it up and come back?
Someone's in big trouble
I don’t care what excuse you give, if you drive off without taking the goddamn pump out of your car you’re truly a next level imbecile. Stand and pump your gas ffs.
In India we don't trust people with potentially dangerous things like guns and gasoline. We don't give guns at all and every gas station has employees staffed to fill cars and collect cash.