"geoff" wrote in message
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In message , Bill
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In message , geoff
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I think that the practical possibility of a mobile phone causing an
explosion is somewhere on the region of zero

This sort of discussion always reminds me of a talk on risk I remember
from years back. "Are you willing to take a risk if the odds are 1000 to
1?" Most people would say "yes." "OK here is a jar with 1000 smarties in
it, plus one that has cyanide in it, would you like to take one?" answer
was normally "no"

With mobile phones and the hazard on garage forecourts the bigger risk is
if they are dropped and break in a way to cause sparks or a fire in the
phone, very remote but possible,

and the risk of a spark from e.g. dropping your keys ?

All bollox !

Bloke in USA was hit by a bolt of lightning around 3 weeks ago on a
forecourt while filling with fuels. Made the international news complete
with CCTV footage of the actual event.
So a mobile phone, keys or for that matter a chav bird smoking a roll up
while her Burberry capped dum**** boyfriend fills up from a filing station
in darkest Essex isn't likely to start a blaze.
Where is there *any* evidence of a phone or anything remotely like it
causing an explosion at a pump ?