This is True

Dimmer Bulb

An unidentified 40-year-old man drove into a gasoline station on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia, and began to fill a jerry can with gas. The fumes rose up to the lit cigarette dangling from his mouth and exploded, throwing him 15 feet and landing him on an ant hill. “He suffered a few small burns and some ant bites,” a police spokesman says. “We took a vote and this is one of the stupidest things we’ve ever heard of.” (Reuters) ...Apparently, they don’t read Canadian newspapers.


Publication Date: 25 February 2001

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 7.