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    I was at home at the time so didn't see this firsthand but mom told me about it.

    She's coming home up a 'side street' from the main drag when she sees an oncoming pickup truck with literal flames coming out of the bed. She pulls the hell over, the truck does as well and two college-age guys jump out. She thinks they're going to call 911...nope. They jump in the bed, hoist out a flaming Rubbermaid tote and proceed to throw it into the opposite lane and haul ass outta there (at least they didn't throw it into someone's yard...).

    It was hot yesterday, so she's guessing that tote had cleaning supplies/used rags or something similar that caught fire. When the two of us were heading back downtown the street was open, but there were firetrucks and police cruisers near the spot where it happened (we were on our way to an appointment otherwise we would have stopped and tried to learn WTF happened).

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    I was on my way to one of my stores and saw a woman on the side of the road with her truck bed on fire. I called 911 and hauled ass to the store and grabbed a fire extinguisher. When I walk out the door I see her across the street. She got back into a truck on fire, drove a mile, and pulled into a gas station.
    Last edited by ReverendBSB; 08-16-2015, 02:24 PM. Reason: Wrote he instead of she.

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    • #3
      Quoth ReverendBSB View Post
      When I walk out the door I see her across the street. She got back into a truck on fire, drove a mile, and pulled into a gas station.
      Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? A gas station has large quantities of flammable liquid on hand - not the place you want to take a burning vehicle.
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      • #4
        Quoth wolfie View Post
        Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? A gas station has large quantities of flammable liquid on hand - not the place you want to take a burning vehicle.
        My neighbor's son car engine (I think, it's been a few years) caught on fire once and the quickest/easiest place to pull over was a gas station. He did so over by the car wash and not by any pumps. Literally across the street from the gas station was a fire department...but I guess the side of the street of the gas station was not part of the area they covered and so a fire truck from a different station (about two miles away) was dispatched to the gas station.

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        • #5
          Quoth Dreamstalker View Post
          It was hot yesterday, so she's guessing that tote had cleaning supplies/used rags or something similar that caught fire.
          I'd opine it was a portable meth lab that caught fire. (Probably a good thing it caught fire, actually; there've been a couple of instances where someone opened a cooler abandoned on the side of the road and died from exposure to the chemicals.)

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          • #6
            Quoth TheSHAD0W View Post
            I'd opine it was a portable meth lab that caught fire. (Probably a good thing it caught fire, actually; there've been a couple of instances where someone opened a cooler abandoned on the side of the road and died from exposure to the chemicals.)
            Might've been phosphene gas or some similar nasty gas that just built up in that cooler.
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            • #7
              Not a cooler; this was one of those transparent lidded totes sans lid. Plenty of room for gases to escape if they could...the world may never know what happened. Meth lab is an interesting guess, and somehow not impossible. This town is generally seen as expensive and snobbish, but we do have some weird goings-on in parts.

              *wishes the local fire department had something similar to the public police blotter*
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              • #8
                Quoth ReverendBSB View Post
                I was on my way to one of my stores and saw a woman on the side of the road with her truck bed on fire. I called 911 and hauled ass to the store and grabbed a fire extinguisher. When I walk out the door I see her across the street. She got back into a truck on fire, drove a mile, and pulled into a gas station.








                If she was trying for a Darwin, I do believe she would have been disqualified for taking others with her.

                About all I can think here is that panic blue-screened anything passing for thought processes.
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