🚀 go-pugleaf

"Daniel J. Stern" <dastern@engin.umich> wrote in message news:<Pine.SOL.4.33.0212091323250.6129-100000@alumni.engin.umich.edu>...
> On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jim wrote:
> 
> > Man, 40, dies of burns from fire at gas pump - Chicago Tribune
> > Published November 22, 2002
> >
> > NORTHWEST SIDE -- A Humboldt Park man died Thursday of burns suffered
> > when his clothes caught fire while he was pumping gas with a lit
> > cigarette.
> 
> Silly idiot should've used a gasoline pump instead of a cigarette. ;^{)}
> Score one "oops" for the Trib's writers.
> 
> > David Gerena, 40, of the 1400 block of North Campbell Avenue, who
> > suffered burns over 90 percent of his body, was pronounced dead
> > Thursday at Cook County Hospital. Gerena was pumping gas at a station
> > at 2800 W. Fullerton Ave. Wednesday morning when his cigarette ignited
> > gas vapors and his clothing caught fire. "[Gerena] was [on fire] from
> > the waist up-- he then dropped the gasoline filler hose and spilled
> > gasoline ignited, engulfing his entire body," said Chicago Police
> > spokesman Ozzie Rodriguez.
> 
> Well, what can be said? "The Surgeon General has determined that cigarette
> smoking is hazardous to your health."  If this moron had taken anyone else
> out with him when he went, it would have been a tragedy. As he did not,
> it's just simple Darwinism at work.
> 
> Sheez. It's idiots like this what give New Jersey legislators a good name.
> 
> DS

Not exactly true, Stern. A much better example of Darwinism at work
would have been if you, Eddy, Watson, Broughton, Smitty and Lech were
in the gay bathouse  right next door to the gas station and the entire
city block blew up when the underground tanks went. Now THAT would
have represented a truly beneficial and effective culling of the
species. And if we could have managed to gather the entire New Jersey
legislature all in that same city block, it would have represented an
even higher evolutionary milestone. You just don't think these things
through well enough, Herr Sternmueller.

The above was plagiarized from "The Summa Theologica," by Saint Thomas
Aquinas.
Go look it up, Eddy.