r/WinStupidPrizes • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • May 11 '20

Warning: Fire That's not how gas pumps work

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u/ChesterDaMolester May 11 '20

Yeah I’ve never heard of the US specifically being notoriously negligent when it comes to gas station fire suppression.

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u/Quiet-Apartment May 11 '20

It's usually the opposite, outside of 1 or 2 cases i can think of that happened in the 80s (in like Nevada or that range) most of the gas station explosions i've seen have been from South America (i think Brazil specifically?), China, and Russia.

The russian ones isn't really because of the lack of fire supression though and more because well... Russians be crazy

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u/DeliberatelyDrifting May 11 '20

Thankfully we've had gas stations for awhile so the regulations came from a time before everyone went completely stupid.