We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bill
saying something like:

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, I have had a portable radio, walkie
talkie, catch fire due to a fault and would not have wanted to be near
any explosive gas mix.

So is it worth the risk if it can be avoided? No.

What a load of scare-mongering ********.