11-25-2008, 06:43 PM
Years ago, when I lived in Pennsylvania, I was at a gas station walking from my car, parked at the pump, to the station to pay. I happened to glance over at another pump and saw a woman looking down the nozzle of of the pump. She then squeezed the trigger and got a face full of gas. Immediately I wished I had a camera, this was before cell phone cameras.
I walked into the station and told the clerk. He's grabbing a bag of cat litter and calling 9-1-1 at the same time. I just tossed my money in the back room on the manager's desk and told her too. I knew the people there well and a couple days later I asked whan happened. They said the lady thought the pump was broken because it stopped (ya know . . when the tank is full) and didn't really know how to opperate it, she was from Jersey, one of the only states where we don't pump our own gas. I heard stories of her getting her stomach pumped and having her eyes burned from the gas but I never really found out what happened to her.
I walked into the station and told the clerk. He's grabbing a bag of cat litter and calling 9-1-1 at the same time. I just tossed my money in the back room on the manager's desk and told her too. I knew the people there well and a couple days later I asked whan happened. They said the lady thought the pump was broken because it stopped (ya know . . when the tank is full) and didn't really know how to opperate it, she was from Jersey, one of the only states where we don't pump our own gas. I heard stories of her getting her stomach pumped and having her eyes burned from the gas but I never really found out what happened to her.