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**Darrell Green Fan** · 03-01-2012, 11:28 AM

A North Carolina man is dead after police say he accidentally drank from a jar of gasoline and then smoked a cigarette. Havelock police received a 911 call about 9:55 p.m. Monday after 43-year-old Gary Allen Banning set himself on fire. Banning was transported to UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill, where he died early Tuesday morning.

http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2012/0...ing-cigarette/

**WindyCityFlyer** · 03-01-2012, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by StillSwinging

Let's see...

- Check from the NFL came in the mail today
- Good news on my school loans
- Won FN Writer of the Year award and $500 for it

Let's have Leap Year more often. Unusually good things actually happened for me.

Cool man. Hey...are you still pursuing IE?

**Hyped** · 03-01-2012, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Davekn

A North Carolina man is dead after police say he accidentally drank from a jar of gasoline and then smoked a cigarette. Havelock police received a 911 call about 9:55 p.m. Monday after 43-year-old Gary Allen Banning set himself on fire. Banning was transported to UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill, where he died early Tuesday morning.

http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2012/0...ing-cigarette/

How do you accidentally drink gasoline?

**Breed** · 03-01-2012, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by Hyped

How do you accidentally drink gasoline?

And if you do drink gasoline, for whatever purpose, accidental or not. How do you decide that smoking a cigarette (I'm assuming relatively soon after drinking the gas) is a good idea?

**CalgaryHawkFan** · 03-01-2012, 06:27 PM

Oh c'mon who hasn't drunk gas before, after downing a fifth of bourbon or two?

**FamineGod** · 03-01-2012, 06:28 PM

I guess one can drink from a jar that had held gasoline at one point without realizing that one had actually drunk gasoline. I think one could still be classified as an idiot for doing such a thing, but I guess I could see how it would happen. <shrug>

**Farty Jones** · 03-01-2012, 06:34 PM

The boots i exchanged at Gander Mountain arrived at my house the night before we got the biggest snowstorm of the year (which still wasn't much my MN standards). And i dominated a bunch of preshcool thru 4th graders in a snowball fight.

**FamineGod** · 03-01-2012, 06:41 PM

**Darrell Green Fan** · 03-01-2012, 06:51 PM

Jeez do I have to do ALL the work for you guys, like reading the F-ing article? Guy was at a buddy's house and saw a glass of what he thought was moonshine (I'm assuming the part about the moonshine) in the sink. He drank it, spit it out immediately and got the gas on his clothes in the process. A while later he went outside to smoke because, well, that's what rednecks do. The cig ignited his clothes.

**Breed** · 03-01-2012, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Davekn

Jeez do I have to do ALL the work for you guys, like reading the F-ing article? Guy was at a buddy's house and saw a glass of what he thought was moonshine (I'm assuming the part about the moonshine) in the sink. He drank it, spit it out immediately and got the gas on his clothes in the process. A while later he went outside to smoke because, well, that's what rednecks do. The cig ignited his clothes.

Why didn't you just say that in your first post?

**FamineGod** · 03-01-2012, 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by Davekn

Jeez do I have to do ALL the work for you guys, like reading the F-ing article?

Who reads the articles that people post here...?

**Darrell Green Fan** · 03-01-2012, 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by Breed

Why didn't you just say that in your first post?

Because my first post was what we call in the message board business a "tease". It's meant to entice the poster to OPEN THE FUUUCKING LINK

**StillSwinging** · 03-01-2012, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by WindyCityFlyer

Cool man. Hey...are you still pursuing IE?

Honestly, it's been about 8 months since I really have pursued that. I think back to when I was in elementary school and I wanted to be a writer, and I think that's what suits me best. Ideally I'd like to be able to do sports writing and screenwriting. So far I'm accomplishing one of those goals, and the results of this season have given me a lot of confidence that I'm headed in the right direction.