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[–]Blepharospasm 94 points95 points ago

I would also run to the nearest fire department and fill their fire engines full of gasoline as well for extra lols.

[–]Pielikey 78 points79 points ago

I thought they were already full of gasoline because that's how engines work...

[–]DontThinkTooHard 27 points28 points ago

CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER

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[–]massrabbler 5 points6 points ago

FUCK YEAH CHOO CH-

fuck I can't do this.

[–]yeathl 0 points1 point ago

Ha! That was perfect!

[–]Doriathh 2 points3 points ago

ikr

[–]LurkingGrue 0 points1 point ago

That would be the tank. If you filled an engine with gasoline, it wouldn't start.

[–]Infernodus 11 points12 points ago

Somr people just want to watch the world burn... Lulz me too!

[–]Crawlerado 40 points41 points ago

[–]motortheboats 3 points4 points ago

[–]spikesonice 1 point2 points ago

That gif is so painful to look at.

[–]SaraLovesScalpals2 1 point2 points ago

Yup.

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[–]Crawlerado 2 points3 points ago

Not true. I have an old one like this that we fill with water and compressed air to cool cars at the races.

[–]Jpot 6 points7 points ago

How zany!

[–]CannibalShinobi 6 points7 points ago

How do you fill a fire extinguisher with gasoline?

[–]WarAndRuin 0 points1 point ago

Very carefully.

[–]pressure161 5 points6 points ago

you can't pressurize gasoline.

[–]WarAndRuin 0 points1 point ago

Challenge accepted.

[–]NotaMethAddict 53 points54 points ago

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[–]JasonT26 29 points30 points ago

So do you get paid for wasting your time posting this shit or....?

[–]NotaMethAddict 18 points19 points ago

I wish.

[–]flynn451 8 points9 points ago

I wish too, It would keep your off meth

[–]NotaMethAddict 14 points15 points ago

It would help me afford more meth.

[–]flynn451 7 points8 points ago

but think of all the hard boiled sweets you could buy in place.

[–]My_Boss_Is_A_Dick 12 points13 points ago

Um, you can't fill an extinguisher like that with gasolie, it won't work.

[–]dez4u 16 points17 points ago

He forgot to mention adding the magical science dust that turns it into an aerosol.

[–]piecat 5 points6 points ago

Not necessarily that one, but you can refill certain kinds.

[–]JustinCayce 2 points3 points ago

You can refill the vast majority of them.

[–]JustinCayce 7 points8 points ago

I own a fire extinguisher service business, you most certainly can fill a fire extinguisher with gas like that, and it will spray it out just fine.

[–]DontThinkTooHard 3 points4 points ago

Using facts and logic .. come on man

[–]bros3idon -1 points0 points ago

It kind of depends on the gasoline and its additives. Pure gasoline, not a chance it would work at the temperature ranges with which a human being could legitimately operate it. However, butane and other components in the gasoline would expand and vaporize in the real world scenario.

[–]JustinCayce 0 points1 point ago

Sorry, you're still wrong. I'm betting you don't know how a fire extinguisher works mechanically, but it would spray out the gasoline just fine. But hey, keep arguing with the guy who has spent the last twelve years working on fire extinguishers.

Edit. That setup, filling an extinguisher with gasoline, would effectively be exactly the same setup used for a Halon extinguisher, which, in direct contradiction to your post, have a much lower vaporization pressure than the gasoline would.

The extinguisher has a siphon tube running from the valve at the top to the bottom of the extinguisher (actually, a short way shy of the bottom), it is pressurized with 195 psi of N2, which forces the powder (or halon, or in this case, gasoline) up the pickup tube, through the valve, an out the hose. Just as the pressure keeps halon in a liquid phase, it would maintain the gasoline in a liquid phase.

TL:DR Yeah, it would work, it's exactly the same principle as a halon extinguisher.

[–]Pwoshi 0 points1 point ago

I think he meant just adding in gasoline without the correct tools and without killing yourself would be impossible.

[–]JustinCayce 0 points1 point ago

Actually, rather simple. Only toll you would need is a blowgun nozzle on an air hose to charge it. Extinguishers are very simple mechanically.

[–]revolvingdoor 1 point2 points ago

Hmm... I actually own a fire extinguisher service company as well and you would have to pressurize it.

[–]JustinCayce 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, but it looks like am Amerex five pounder, I no longer use the adapter to charge those. I hook a blowgun nozzle to my N2 bottle and hold it in place, much faster than using the adapter. If I needed the AD 24 or another large adapter, I use them, but without the air chuck connector, and charge then the same way.

[–]zosoknight 0 points1 point ago

Looks like!? It's an Amerex B500 from '95-2000. I've been doing this far too long.

[–]JustinCayce 0 points1 point ago

I was thinking a 402, and I know what you mean, my wife has threatened divorced the next time I name the fire system brand I see in her restaurant shows.

[–]zosoknight 0 points1 point ago

Also works with glitter... did it for the lulz.

[–]JustinCayce 0 points1 point ago

I keep wanting to save the chads (thanks 2000 election) I punch out of the tags and fill one with those.

[–]thats_a_risky_click 1 point2 points ago

I want to believe.

[–]bros3idon 0 points1 point ago

Let's just pretend he said propane and enjoy the joke.

[–]question_all_the_thi 0 points1 point ago

It depends on the fire extinguisher.

This was how Hitchcock's 1942 film Saboteur started. There was a fire extinguisher filled with gasoline in a factory during the war, an innocent man handed it to his co-worker during a fire.

[–]nodnarbiter 2 points3 points ago

Load a gun and shoot someone in the face! Best prank ever!

[–]onfire9123 4 points5 points ago

the internet: "Rape is ok, even funny. But let me find you commiting arson. I dare you"

[–]prep20 2 points3 points ago

inflammable means flammable!?

[–]enaim254 2 points3 points ago

Simpsons did it.

[–]pointy91 3 points4 points ago

Once while in Vietnam, my father was told to clear a field of brush. He used a technique similar to this, in which he filled a fire extinguisher with napalm and burned the brush out of the field. Whilst he and his comrades sat back and watched it burn while enjoying a cold one. Due to the firestorm that ensued the local fire department was called to the scene of the blaze. Upon arrival they noticed their not so trusty fire extinguisher and attempted to put out the fire with said fire extinguisher. Many Lolz were had by all that night.

[–]VF28 1 point2 points ago

Terms and Conditions apply

[–]imquitehungry 1 point2 points ago

This happened to me in Afghanistan. A company in Kabul was making counterfeit name-brand fire extinguishers. They were filled what may have been a mixture of kerosene and other random bullshit. When you sprayed the "extinguisher" it would create the right fuel/air mixture and shit would ignite.

We ended up with 64 fuckin' sweet flame throwers.

[–]CCMARIZ94 1 point2 points ago

This was the plot of a Hitchcock movie, don't think it was a comedy though...

[–]soulking 0 points1 point ago

What sucks is that there are about 4 other hilarious "pranks" on the page this was originally from.

[–]AlbrechtVonRoon 0 points1 point ago

I have heard that poo butter is the best prank ever...

[–]random_pinata 0 points1 point ago

Well that escalated quickly...

[–]PLeb5 0 points1 point ago

Also possible in Space Station 13

http://i.imgur.com/mNP0m.jpg

[–]iqsmart3 0 points1 point ago

THE PIXELS THEY BURN

[–]duBiYou 1 point2 points ago

This is literally the most fucked up prank in the world.

Im totally doing this to my sister

[–]Scisyhp 0 points1 point ago

Fire extinguishers are based on pressurized contents. Gasoline doesn't compress. Sorry.

[–]duBiYou 0 points1 point ago

and there goes my happiness...

[–]TheMellowestyellow 0 points1 point ago

Your right, it doesnt, but the gasses used to push it out sure do!

[–]chimpfunkz 0 points1 point ago

It wouldn't work; The Gasoline wouldn't spay out unless your pressurized the gasoline inside the fire extinguisher.

[–]TheMellowestyellow 0 points1 point ago

2 words: Air Pressure.

[–]Headshot86 0 points1 point ago

Well then, this WAS a fun prank.

[–]TracyWeddle 0 points1 point ago

I find this oddly hilarious!

[–]Larry_G 0 points1 point ago

how do you fill a extinguisher with gas

[–]contak 0 points1 point ago

Man that's trolling them so hard.

[–]Some_Random_Account2 0 points1 point ago

I filled an old one up with Febreeze once. It was pretty fantastic.

[–]KidCasey 0 points1 point ago

I believe the word you're looking for is "murder."

[–]hungry_hun 0 points1 point ago

its funny until it happens to an orphanage. just thought i'd share that

[–]Tlingit_Raven 0 points1 point ago

That time of the month again for this pic? Already?

[–]bwmcmaste 0 points1 point ago

That's what you do with stiffly stiffersons.

[–]diegoml 0 points1 point ago

For extra laughs, while they are recovering in the hospital cut the cord! Double the laughs, double the tears!

[–]shreder54 0 points1 point ago

actually scared to think of how many people might think this could actually work...

[–]replaysMike 0 points1 point ago

If Steven Segal movies are anything to live by - you could fill it with C4 and you would both put out the fire and destroy their house at the same time. Best of both worlds.

[–]TheMellowestyellow 0 points1 point ago

How does one spray a substance that is a solid?

[–]voteddownward 0 points1 point ago

DIZ WUD BE ZOOOO FUNNY U GUYZ! lol :D

[–]Vindicator209 1 point2 points ago

So the fire alarm in my dorm went off when I opened this.

I didn't see it until I got back from the evacuation.

[–]SublimeTranscendence 1 point2 points ago

I did this at my family reunion lol, man I miss those guys :(

[–]space_drunk 1 point2 points ago

At least it is better than the poop butter.

[–]medicinalman -3 points-2 points ago

[–]BurntTheToast -3 points-2 points ago

The people commenting on this post has no sense of humor.

[–]Rokkjester 1 point2 points ago

...people...has

Check yourself, fool.

[–]BurntTheToast 0 points1 point ago

Fucking autocorrect.

[–]The_Bangs -2 points-1 points ago

Go home, you're drunk.

[–]Taco13 -2 points-1 points ago

this made me cry of laughter!

[–]Somemnisawn -2 points-1 points ago

I would like to thank you for not calling it a "troll".

[–]TitaniumSwords -2 points-1 points ago

RRRRRRREPOST

[–]pkong13 -2 points-1 points ago

Hahahahahhaha repost

[–]EvilSockPuppet -3 points-2 points ago

Lololol, trolled.

[–]Benign_Tempest -4 points-3 points ago

No.