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Buckets Of Gasoline Found Inside Philadelphia Garage
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/09/01/exclusive-buckets-of-gasoline-found-inside-philadelphia-garage/
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) With gas prices soaring, people in one Philadelphia neighborhood can only wonder why their neighbor had buckets of gas stored in a garage.
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A strong odor of gasoline and it wasnt natural gas, said a concerned neighbor, who called 911 asked that we didnt identify him. But his call prompted what we caught on camera: Workers in full haz-mat gear pulling gallons of gasoline from a Philadelphia home and dumping them into multiple fifty-gallon drums for safe removal.
When asked about his specific concern, the neighbor replied, The neighborhood blowing up! Youre not supposed to store gas in your garage, not in unauthorized containers.
According to sources, when police and fire crews arrived, they found at least 50 containers full of gasoline in the garage. Some were stored in approved containers but many, sources say, were not.
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But late Friday, a man, who only identified himself as the homeowners son, told Eyewitness News off camera that he did not realize he was doing anything wrong. He went onto explain that he was just buying cheap gas wherever he found it and storing it in his garage to save money.
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Sedona
(3,769 posts)An infringement on second amendment rights!
The science deniers will say its perfectly safe to store gasoline in buckets in your garage.
And none of it will be spelled correctly.
(I think I'll troll the CBS comments section with the above and see how many teahadists agree with it. I'll throw in a spelling error just to make it look authentic. Feel free to chime in with me)
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)...would stop you immediately. I worked at a Unocal here in Vegas a number of years ago, and I nearly had to put a guy under citizens' arrest because he started threatening my life over putting gas into a milk jug. I mean the dude went ballistic! But had I been caught letting him do that, it would have been my job. The pay wasn't great but there was often tons of overtime so you take what you can get.