Any crazy accidents ever go down on your shift, Gas Station Slaves?
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Holy mother of Zeus! I'd be getting away from there as fast as my legs could move.
Posted by: The Last Archimedean | Friday, September 14, 2012 at 03:19 AM
But... the hose has been hooked up to the underground fuel tanks. How the hell could that happen afterwards, or did some idiot think it was safe to start pumping it in after the accident?!
Worst I've ever had was relatively tame stuff like people driving off with the handle of the pump still in the car, or a rubbish truck veering into the overhead canopy with the dumpster arms raised on several occasions.
Posted by: maskedmustelid | Friday, September 14, 2012 at 03:59 AM
Oh My God! I don't even want to know how this happened.
Posted by: perky | Friday, September 14, 2012 at 01:22 PM
How does something like that even happen? Did gravity fail for a second there?
Posted by: SCS | Friday, September 14, 2012 at 02:10 PM
Wow, that takes some talent. any news links to the original story? I'd love to know how that happened.
Now as to the educated guessing... I see two mistakes. It looks like the truck was pulled out from under the trailer and the tank compartments were emptied in the wrong order. I can't be positive from the small pic, but a road tank that size would have at least three compartments, most likely more. If you empty the rearmost compartments first, the front compartment(with much weight in front of the landing gear) would turn the trailer into a teeter totter. If they had left the truck under the trailer, the kingpin would've just pressed down on the truck and the driver would've noticed the weird ride.
I could be wrong about the truck being pulled out from underneath, the teeter totter effect could have broken the kingpin and forced the truck out. I see it as unlikely, but possible.
Posted by: TC | Friday, September 14, 2012 at 09:42 PM
Working 3rd shift at a gas station, I come in to work, and discover that Pump # 16 is destroyed. I mean as in the entire pump has been crushed.
I ask the 2nd shifter what happened. Turns out some idiot had gotten drunk at the bar just up the road, ran the redlight at the corner we were on, and slammed into the curb doing something on the order of 65 MPH. His car jumped the curb, rolled, and slammed into the pump.
The one good thing...the woman who had gotten gas at that pump had pulled her car away from the pump not five seconds before the wreck. Pure luck.
Posted by: ThatManagerBastard | Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 08:23 AM
ManagerBastard, everyone concerned is very lucky a fire and explosion didn't happen. 65 MPH...
Thankfully. [higher entity] protects fools, drunks and kids. Normally.
Posted by: The Last Archimedean | Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 12:11 PM
All of the picture references I found for that refer to either RHU or someone reposting it from the cheezburger site, no news at all.
Only thing I can think of is what TC posted... The truck's front props are down, or at least on the ground, and it doesn't look like the ground in front collapsed.
Posted by: TechTiger | Monday, September 17, 2012 at 11:23 PM
All of the picture references I found for that refer to either RHU or someone reposting it from the cheezburger site, no news at all.
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All of the picture references I found for that refer to either RHU or someone reposting it from the cheezburger site, no news at all.
Posted by: mpg to mov converter | Monday, November 05, 2012 at 03:21 AM
My personal best is the guy who came about six inches from putting his motorized scooter through my front window, staggered in grabbed a case of beer and threw a literal crying fit that I wouldn't sell it to him. Ended the whole mess (sniffing snot and wiping tears) by saying "You're a cool chick right? You wouldn't call the cops on me?" and staggering out before I can do more the blink the blink of "Are you serious right now?". Second is the chick who paid for $35 of gas in dimes.
Posted by: "Adventerous" Clerk | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 12:51 AM