Now don't all you people feel guilty for chasing all the smokers outside?
A MAN was killed by a horrific explosion in a garden shed at his parents' home after popping outside for a smoke.
Investigators believe the 31-year-old victim was visiting relatives in Tyldesley, near Atherton, when he went out of the house to smoke a cigarette.
It is thought he went into the shed to shelter from the rain and accidentally ignited petrol stored in the outbuilding while he was lighting up. The shed exploded into a ball of flame, leaving the man with 100 per cent burns.
Note that the man who called the fire brigade was awake because he couldn't sleep and got up for a smoke, which he had inside his house and so was near the phone. Something for Nelson Peters and Marla Irving and Linda Bloom to think about, eh?
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So it's the government's fault when some guy lights a cigarette in his shed full of gasoline vapors?
I'm trying to figure out when the govt is responsible for certain behavior and when it isn't. Perhaps you can send me the right-wing cheat sheet on circular logic and contradictory statments...
Jeff, you just said (in your katrina remarks) that the government MUST be held responsible. Obviously they failed this poor soul, no flammable warning posters, and I'm sure a faster government response to his explosion would have saved his life as well. Damn those rascist feds anyway!!!
Point taken
But there's no agency I know of responsible for evacuating you from your own shed...