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"Man at B&Q" writes:
On Oct 27, 5:59*pm, "RW" wrote:

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.
He was lucky.
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 ?
There is footage of a static discharge causing a fire whilst someone
was filling up. It's been on telly enough times.

That's nothing to do with a mobile phone.

A few years back, long after those messages had appeared at
filling stations, there had not been not a single case of a
mobile igniting fuel at a filling station. I've not heard of
one since then either.

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Andrew Gabriel
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