Through the years we’ve shared video showing many different ways people have started fires at service station gas pumps. This may be the most unique and the dumbest.
It happened recently in Center Line, Michigan. The man filling his car up didn’t like the spider crawling around near his fill cap. He tried to get rid of it by using a light to burn the critter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lFhpByO2s
Using a lighter to kill the bug, he started a blaze that quickly engulfed the gas pump.
He somehow escaped serious injury and the gas station’s damage was contained to one pump, which was destroyed. The incident was recorded at a Center Line gas station.
Employee Susan Adams kept calm and hit the gas automatic stop button and quickly called the Center Line fire department.
The man grabbed a nearby extinguisher and put out the flames before firefighters arrived. Later he admitted what he did, saying he spotted a spider on his gas tank and because he’s deathly afraid of the critters.
