A Brilliant boater...

[cdefreit]

PORT SALERNO - Members of the Martin County Fire Rescue Hazmat team responded to a fuel clean-up Tuesday morning after a boater pumped gasoline into his fishing rod holder instead of his gas tank.

The boater pumped about 100 gallons of gasoline at the Finest Kind Marina fuel dock before he noticed the problem, but only about 15 gallons polluted the water, marina employees said.

The rest of the gasoline seeped into the boat's bilge tank, witnesses said.

The man's fishing boat was towed from the fuel dock to Sandsprit Park so Hazmat officials could secure the fuel, said Jeff Alter, Fire Rescue bureau chief.

Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/treasurecoast/sfl-513wronghole,0,5080053.story

 

[AndersonAcres]

Thanks for sharing that, CDEFreit.

Reminds me of another post a while back concerning rod holders......

http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2965

 

[rondds]

i think this is more frequent that you'd expect. and no i've never done it!

 

[Nehalennia]

The Blonde joke of the year

What is a 710?

A few days ago I was having some work done at my local garage. A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten. We all looked at each other and another customer asked, What is a seven-hundred-ten? She replied, You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I have lost it and need a new one. She replied that she did not know exactly what it was, but this piece had always been there. The mechanic gave her a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like. She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710. He then took her over to another car which had its hood up and asked there a 710 on this car? She pointed and said, Of course, it's right there. If you're not sure what a 710 is

 

[Presentation]

Todd, I fell for it. That was great!

 

[RiverRat]

Keep both of these people in mind when we select this years darwin award winner....

 

[SeaSu]

If you ever need to get one yourself you can order them from here. They also carry a wide selection of muffler bearings, blinker fluid and o-pipes for your exhaust.

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3

 

[Mr Happy]

I've done something similar. One year at a race in Texas my boss asked me to take a picture of him and Chuck Norris. I had a new camera and had only used it a few times. Before I took the picture I looked at the top and there was what I thought the number 3. What the heck is a 3? I took the picture and later realized that it was not a 3 but the letter E for empty, no FILM.

 

[charlieft]

PORT SALERNO - Members of the Martin County Fire Rescue Hazmat team responded to a fuel clean-up Tuesday morning after a boater pumped gasoline into his fishing rod holder instead of his gas tank.

......

The same thing happened in Onset last Summer. They had to evacuate the marina while the problem was dealt with. From what I'm told ... the guy became suspicious when he had pumped more gas than his tank size.

-C

 

[rondds]

amazing he was aware of the tank's capacity!

 

[boltman]

OMG Doug you are so easy... you've never heard of that one before?

 

[JV II]

How are you supposed to keep track of what all those holes are for?

 

[Nehalennia]

If you ever need to get one yourself you can order them from here. They also carry a wide selection of muffler bearings, blinker fluid and o-pipes for your exhaust.

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3

Don't you hate it when you run out of blinker fluid.

 

[RiverRat]

Don't you hate it when you run out of blinker fluid.

It's really a pain, especially when you can't find your metric cresent wrench to get the cap off!!!:wow::smt101