It’s called multitasking, man!
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Heh heh heh. I was using some of that epoxy wood stuff to fix a little wood rot on my deck. You have to use a liquid hardener first before using the putty and I used a styro coffee cup. Luckily I hadn’t put too much in the cup before it ate through the bottom. So I switched to a Coke can. (Stuff works pretty good though but pricey-I have no Minwax stock that I know of.)
I’m not saying it was very smart or safe but liquid gas is not that explosive. You can throw a match in it and it’ll just put the match out. Learned that at about 10. But the fumes, KABLOOM, if the bag spills or is not air tight.
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Is the naturalized Okie the same as a Native Okie? I don’t remember which tribe is down there anymore but I read there is a court case to turn over most of the eastern part of the state back to the tribe. Oh yeah it was a guy charged with rape under state law and he claimed only the feds could charge him because half the state should be a reservation. I’ve known some pretty dumb lawyers but this day and age, you never know what the courts will decide. Don’t buy any eastern farm land. Wait till they get to Minnesota.
Nope. I wasn’t born in OK but have lived here long enough I consider it my adoptive home state so to speak.
There’s a lot of Native Americans here (Indians to be politicially incorrect). Yes ,there are squabbles at times over jurisdictions and taxes but the Indians are killing it with casinos; monetarily speaking.
At the Sturgis motorcycle rally some years ago I met a couple from WA in a bar there. They honestly thought Indians were still living in wig-wams here and buffalo were roaming wild. Not true on the first and somewhat true on the second. Now who is from a backwards state I rhetorically ask… 
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Now who is from a backwards state I rhetorically ask…
It used to be worse in year’s past but we still a see a lot of people come to Ga. looking for TARA make’s me wonder what they are teaching in history class in school’s now a day’s.
Yeah, my dad learned that the hard way when I was a kid. Found a wasp nest in a little ornamental tree and was too cheap to call an exterminator. So he siphoned gas from the car (with a hose and his mouth) into a styrofoam cup, which he then threw on the tree.
At least, that was the plan. The gas ate through the bottom of the cup right as he was throwing it, so most of the gas went on him, and a ring from the bottom went onto the concrete driveway and fused to it. Was still there when we moved several years later. And the tree, which dad finally soaked in gas by grabbing a highball glass, was still dead.
For a lawyer with an engineering undergrad, he didn’t always think things through very well. 
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I’ll admit I’ve used the “gas the wasps” trick. Works well. It seems to be about the only thing you can do for an in ground Yellowjacket nest. But don’t use styrofoam cups. Hey…plastic zip lock bags maybe! Maybe the lady in the article was bombing hornets? Ingenious!
Gas the wasp’s yellowjacket nest or hornet’s work’s good if you use a plastic spray bottle I keep one handy in the summer for that purpose,
This made me thing of something I heard about while doing work out west in Arizona and Utah. There are lots of Indian reservations out there and I guess drugs and drinking are a huge problem there just like everywhere but maybe worse. Meth was hitting hard here at the time and I asked if it was meth. They told me that was too expensive and they were getting high off gasoline. I was shocked. They made some sort of sweat lodge type deal and had a burner or fire going under metal pot of gasoline and would vaporize the gasoline with the heat. They had some type of vapor barrier like painters plastic taped to the top of the metal bucket to keep the vapors away from the fire and would breathe the fumes in a sweat lodge type deal.
No one mentioned any people blowing themselves up doing this but I can imagine a spot where they forget to tape or an ember going through the plastic, and BOOM! The big concern they mentioned was the neurological damage caused by doing this. There were people who were severely disabled because their brains had been fried from the gasoline fumes. I can’t imagine the insides of that car being much better when it comes to fumes. You could definitely see it leaking for sure until she double bagged it.
Another question I would have is how you would dispense that once you get it home.
There is a difference between using a milk jug or a cleaned out empty motor oil jug to contain gas when you need a can in a pinch vs using bags. I at least did my research to understand it was the same plastic chemistry (#2 HDPE plastic) even if not the safest and most ideal container.
I find it funny how people stereotype the Midwestern states. I mean people don’t think we have cars, running water, or electricity. I guess it really is flyover country for them. I was out in Los Angeles one time and people were shocked I had all my teeth and could read when I told them I was from Missouri. People in Missouri are now like “At least we have electricity” when they start cutting off power in CA to prevent wildfires.
I was at another conference out in CA and they were serving wine. I got to talking to a guy serving wine and told him I was from Missouri. He of course made some derogatory comments. I made sure to let him know that Missouri has the oldest recognized viticultural district in the country. Yep, older than Martha’s Vineyard. I also let him know about this story. The interesting part that isn’t mentioned here is that California soon started to experience the same blight. Instead of importing root stock from Missouri which is what saved the French wine industry and the rest of Europe for that matter, they chose to import it from France as that sounded a lot better. Yep, that originated in Missouri, went to France, and then came back. Talk about snobs! https://experiencehermann.com/hermann-missouri-news/hermann-saves-french-wine
As for the wasp/hornets nest story, I have another good one. There was a large nest on the corner of a barn that my buddy had. They decided it would be a good idea to blast it into oblivion with a shotgun. So, they pull up in a truck and unload a 12 gauge on the thing. Every piece of glass in the truck shatters from the shotgun blast. They got the nest but they had every surviving hornet mad as hell and coming at them in a truck with no window glass. They sped off and survived without getting stung. Now that is the story the coastal people expect coming out of Missouri!
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Tear off a corner of the bag would be one thought. Scottish, meaning cheap Father in Law would not buy lighter fluid for the charcoal grill. preferred to douse the coals with gasoline, of course we would stand back a few feet when he threw a lighted match into the grill!
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I find it funny how people stereotype the Midwestern states.
Same thing with the southern state’s,
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The guy at the wine place called me an “Okie” of course even after I told him I was from Missouri. I guess we are all the same to these snobs.
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The ozark’s cover part’s of Missouri Arkansas & Oklahoma & a lot of people consider any one from that area “Okie’s”.
I guess I have lived in enough places to know what accent to use, Yep you can tell a yankee a mile away, or Hey dere just a beer!
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My grandpa used to do the whole charcoal grill starter with gas thing. It was always a stand back and watch type of deal. Somehow I don’t think it ever got him. He also had some type of electric element that you put in the coals and plugged in until they got going. He only used it a few times as electricity cost money. I am sure it was a whole lot cheaper than gasoline and a lot safer too! I have found that once you get a few coals glowing, you hit the fire with a leaf blower and you will risk melting the grill down in no time!
I have never tried spraying hornets with gasoline. That is a new one but the stuff is pretty toxic so I bet it works! I kept getting stung by the ground hornets or yellowjackets that had a hole in my yard. I used generic insect spray on them and it never seemed to work. It would knock them back a few weeks and then they would be back in full force. I decided to buy actual hornet spray and see what that did. One use finished them off. The active ingredients were the same so I don’t know what the difference was but it worked!
I recalled seeing this a few weeks ago! Yep, gasoline works on ants too and with a nice boom of course!
The story I :thought of when this discussion started, from 2011
Open Bucket of Gas Contributed to Bellevue Van Explosion
Three Bellevue residents suffered serious burns after fumes from an open container of gasoline exploded inside their van, investigators say.
By Venice Buhain, Patch Staff
Jan 20, 2011 4:43 pm PT | Updated Jan 21, 2011 8:24 am PT
BELLEVUE – Fumes from an open bucket of gasoline inside a stalled van contributed to an explosion that sent three Bellevue residents to the hospital with burns, police and fire officials said Thursday.
The woman told investigators that she and two male friends were getting some gas from a Factoria gas station minutes before the explosion, according to a Bellevue police press release. They were having problems keeping the older model Chevy van running, so they filled an open bucket with two gallons of gas and kept it inside the van because they did not have a proper enclosed gas container.
After removing the engine cowling from between the two front seats to get direct access to the carburetor, the group used a water bottle to transfer gas from the bucket directly into the carburetor from the inside of the van to keep the engine running, police said.
The vehicle stalled just before 145 Place S.E and the driver tried to restart it, Bellevue police said. Investigators say that the fumes built up from the open bucket of gas exploded, triggered by the van’s own ignition when the driver tried to restart the van.
The van became fully engulfed in flames and started rolling backwards, Bellevue police said. Witnesses told police the woman jumped out the back of the van and fell to the ground on fire, with the van rolling over her leg. The two men, who were also on fire, jumped out of the van and ran towards the Chevron station on the corner. One of the men made it to the station and tried to douse himself with water, police said.
Bellevue Police and Bellevue Fire personnel responded immediately and the burning vehicle was quickly extinguished. The three victims remain at Harborview Medical Center for treatment of burns. Their names have not been released, and no charges will be filed, said Bellevue police spokeswoman Officer Carla Iafrate.
The fire closed Kamber Road for a while as police and fire responded to the blaze.
Bellevue Fire spokesman Lt. Eric Keenan said that it is a horrible idea to carry gasoline without a proper container, especially inside a vehicle.
Fumes from the gasoline can escape from a bucket, which creates a dangerous situation, he said.
“The fumes are what ignite,” he said. “Especially in an enclosed environment, you’re basically creating a situation where you can cause an explosion if the fumes find an ignition source.”
Hear tell brake cleaner kills bugs fast, There was some powder stuff for ground bees etc. that worked well for me.
Now that we’re way off topic, an old guy I worked with warned me about the Indians and wondered if they had running water when he heard I was going to school in South Dakota. He was a good ole guy but hadn’t been around much. I assured him it was well settled.
I was trying to get a camp fire going at the camp ground once and took about 2" of Coleman fuel in a cup and threw it on the fire. Yep, whoosh. I had a wind breaker on and it actually singed the hair on my arms under the wind breaker, not to mention my eye brows. Didn’t do that again.
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I’ve learned the safe way to get a stubborn fire going when camping is to pour Coleman fuel into small ziplock bags. Then lob those bags into the campfire that you’re struggling to get going.
That way, when the flame goes “whoosh”, you’re back far enough to not get hurt.