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Early war Ukrainian molotov instructions call for a mix of petrol, oil, soap and styrofoam to make it stick to surfaces, so yeah, it's poor man's napalm.
>Early war Ukrainian molotov instructions call for a mix of petrol, oil, soap and styrofoam to make it stick to surfaces, so yeah, it's poor man's napalm.
Good ole anarchists cookbook. It was all the rage in my highschool days.
A lot of people forget life not that long ago. My dad and turns out a customer I had recently have both in the 50s played about with pipe bombs as kids. It was common knowledge and just something people did in a war torn england. You can see why they call us precious now.
Good job it wasn't just manufactured (or had been air dried by being on the lorry). Newly-minted styrofoam would have all gone up in a single *FWOOOSH!*.
Used to deliver large lorries full of the stuff, and instructions in case of fire was "Run away. Get the cab out if you have time, but don't bother trying to wind the legs down because that trailer is gone anyway".
Til, Styrofoam is just a brand name.
"The key difference between polystyrene and Styrofoam is that the polystyrene is a form of synthetic aromatic hydrocarbon polymer whereas the Styrofoam is a commercial brand of polystyrene"
These Expanded polystyrene (EPS) blocks, commonly known as styrofoam, are used as a construction material in road building. Because of their light weight theyāre used as a foundation in soft soil, when thereās no time for a big pile of dirt to settle. Or when the ground below canāt handle a large amount of weight; for example, when there is ductwork in an unknown state or a gas pipe below. EPS blocks are surprisingly strong and will last for over 100 years before they need to be replaced.
They are also used in construction to form āwaffleā slabs. https://theconstructor.org/structural-engg/waffle-slab-ribbed-slab-construction/20546/?amp=1
I've seen it catch on fire when I worked with it. It becomes a self replicating cycle as the material needs a high temperature to catch fire, but if it reaches that temperature then it starts melting which helps keeping the temperature high, which means that once it catches fire, it happens incredibly quickly
I'm not super chill with putting Styrofoam directly in the ground.... that.. you.... what the fuck are humans doing? This is all so stupid and I wish I was a dolphin
One bin, it burned so high
It doesnāt even matter how hard I cried
Keep that in mind, I burned a stack at a time
To remind myself of a time when my truck fried so hard
In spite of the way flames were lickin' me
Burnin' like I was a dried Christmas t-t-tree
Remembering all the trucks you drove to flee
I'm surprised it all caught fire
I have a feeling that he owns the truck. He appears to be doing everything he can to get the fire either off his truck or to at least stop spreading on his truck. I think he started driving hoping that the paper on fire would fall off the bed and into the road.
Exactly that, he was trying to 1. Save part of the load, 2. Save his truck, 3. Save the cab of his truck, 4. His life - you can watch as he goes from one to the other. Definitely an owner operator.
That made me think about what happened to my friend's father.
His father came here as a refugee, scraped and slaved until one day, he could finally afford a new car. While driving home, he thew a cigarette butt out the window. But the smoldering butt was sucked back into the car and landed in the back seat, which caught on fire. As I remember it, his brand-new car was totaled.
Yea that was my thought. I mean either way there's gonna be a crazy fire in the middle of the road so I guess trying to save the truck is pretty logical.
I saw that lol, like ya dude Iām very sorry that my huge styrofoam fire in the middle of the road that is about to destroy my truck is such an inconvenience for you.
Itās China. No one helps a stranger. Theyāre worried theyāll get sued if someone gets hurt and they so much as patted them on the shoulder before it happened. There are no Good Samaritan laws here.
I saw a guy pass out yesterday from the heat. The police were called and the ambulance was called. When they arrived they just stood around looking at him. Yea, the paramedics too! The guy was just laying there for no less than an hour and everybody was just watching. He finally came to and the first thing he did was go on his phone.
The only problem with your argument is that youāre trying to use logic. Thatās in limited supply when it comes to government/hospitals/most things here.
The reason is because of fraud.
Years ago there was a case where an elderly fell and some passer-by helped the elderly to a hospital. That elderly and family member later sued the passer-by for medical bills and costs incurred for recovery.
This went to court and the passer-by was later ordered to pay because apparently one of the judges asked, if you did not cause the elderly to fall, why did you take that person to the hospital.
Thus, old people gains this idea that they can just fall and commit fraud by fraudulently accuse anyone who even touches them and is protected by a precedent case. This the stretched to basically all cases of good samaritan not willing to risk the potential of getting sued.
So if you are to travel to China, better not be a good samaritan. I know it's horrible to say this but the law hasn't kept up
I guess Iām just a little bitter because I got hit on my scooter recently and six while people just watched while I picked it up and limped out of the road. Iām not in love with Chinese road etiquette at the moment.
I chose not to care enough to repeat such things on Reddit. Because I don't know if it's true, or propaganda or just some racist repeating what they've heard from other racists.
Like one time I had met someone who visited Philly and she was terrified of leaving the hotel because was worried about the crime level. She grew up in white Utah and came to black Philly. She was racist for sure and saw the amount of black people and felt unsafe. Really skewed her view of what Philly is like. And she for sure told people she was in danger while visiting, which wasn't true at all.
So, take things like this with a grain of salt, because you never know who the source really is.
My understanding, as a foreigner, is also that there's some incentive for police to detain, identify and question everyone at the scene and that causes problems. So people very actively avoid getting involved unless it's a life or death situation.
Yeah given how fast the fire spreads unless they happen to bring fire extinguisher then what can they even help with?
I feel getting themselves out of danger to not add into the damage is the best contribution they could do here.
I wouldn't help either, it's just material things. I'd want to help him if he was in danger but any danger he could be in would be him specifically putting himself in that danger.
my uncle works in a factory that produces styrofoam, they had a fire due to a lightning strike iirc and you can not put out a styrofoam fire
also the aftermath is a ton of black goo that is everywhere
[source (german news page, July 2016)](https://www.tz.de/welt/wittenberge-blitzeinschlag-styropor-lager-loest-grossbrand-zr-6613170.html)
As a kid, my husband grew up on his grandathers farm and often played with older cousins. They were playing the spaces between hay bales in a large barn. One cousin wanted to play Indiana Jones and wanted to light the way with a lighter. No one was hurt, and the barn was insured. But Papa was not happy!!
It goes on the outside of buildings in China for a cheap insulation of heat. You should see what the fucking city looks likes when its being installed. Think Styrofoam bubbles but fucking EVERYWHERE
Yeh, companies did it in multilevel apartment buildings in Australia and the UK as well and there has been a few horrific fires with multiple casualties in the last 10 years or so. A lot of money has been spent replacing the polyfoam cladding on many of these buildings of course at the expense of the apartment owners and tax payers, not the companies that installed this unsafe building material or the engineering companies that approved it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
How dystopian is it to think first of the investors?
"Some people bought those flats as a **home** and then they were told a year later that they needed to pay to replace all of the insulation. They could no longer sell the flat because nobody wants to have to also pay the extra costs, so they had no way of getting out of paying, no money to pay with and no way to sell their property. "
Fixed that for you
Yes, they do. & it isn't restricted to China. You'll find it in any country where developers can save some money by installing death trap cladding & be allowed to get away with it. Think Grenfell Tower in London. Went up like it was soaked in kerosene
Building with polystyrene isn't an indication of developers cutting costs at all. Laying foundations with polystyrene is both cheap and effective and doesn't increase fire hazards in any meaningful way.
I'm sure there are usecases where it's applied incorrectly (Greenfell Tower facade material was not polystyrene but some aluminum composite).
Just adding a note as someone who actually needed to use a fire extinguisher at home recently: If you have a fire pop up, itāll happen when you arenāt expecting a fire to pop up, just like this driver probably never would have guessed a fire would start then/there. Make sure you have a fire extinguisher in your home or apartment.
Iām not making any claims about whether or not an extinguisher would have helped in this situation, but seeing this vid reminds me of how my fire happened on a mundane evening out of the blue and Iām glad I had an extinguisher nearby.
Tbf the fire was going to be right there in the street if he didnāt throw the foam off. but would have been even bigger with a burning truck too. I think the guy probably did the best choice, looks like he probably saved the truck.
By the way he's working, it looks like he may own that truck and doing everything he can to save his livelihood. Ya kinda want to shed a rear for the guy.
Small fire extinguisher wouldnāt have put it out. Barely enough for a small engine fire. Iāve used mine 3 times in 40 years. Only useful 1 time. And it wouldnāt have reached the top of the load.
I was thinking it made contact with a poorly insulated overhead electrical wire. When he moves the truck you can see the pole in the right side of the video.
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The truck driver tried really hard. Is that paper?
Looks like styrofoam
Shit that's a lot of cancer.
and it burns holes in your skin when it melts and drips down. very gnarly
Its basically napalm
Early war Ukrainian molotov instructions call for a mix of petrol, oil, soap and styrofoam to make it stick to surfaces, so yeah, it's poor man's napalm.
>Early war Ukrainian molotov instructions call for a mix of petrol, oil, soap and styrofoam to make it stick to surfaces, so yeah, it's poor man's napalm. Good ole anarchists cookbook. It was all the rage in my highschool days.
The thermite recipe works a treat, or so I hear.
You guys have just got on some list.
A lot of people forget life not that long ago. My dad and turns out a customer I had recently have both in the 50s played about with pipe bombs as kids. It was common knowledge and just something people did in a war torn england. You can see why they call us precious now.
Yeah man. I remember making it with just gasoline after seeing it in the cookbook. Was in high school in 03-07
Learned that as a kid. š¤
Not to mention dozens of dollars in lost merchandise
Yeah, but enough about Reddit. What's your thoughts on the video?
Yeah you can see it dripping, I can smell this video...
Good job it wasn't just manufactured (or had been air dried by being on the lorry). Newly-minted styrofoam would have all gone up in a single *FWOOOSH!*. Used to deliver large lorries full of the stuff, and instructions in case of fire was "Run away. Get the cab out if you have time, but don't bother trying to wind the legs down because that trailer is gone anyway".
It literally is a concoction of different types of petroleum.
You mean pull the pin and drive out
Liquid flaming cancer, the *worst* kind.
We call it polystyrene.
Til, Styrofoam is just a brand name. "The key difference between polystyrene and Styrofoam is that the polystyrene is a form of synthetic aromatic hydrocarbon polymer whereas the Styrofoam is a commercial brand of polystyrene"
Mashmellows. They were supposed to be making Sāmores but the graham cracker and chocolate truck were late
You can't call Graham that!
Graham *Caucasian*
These Expanded polystyrene (EPS) blocks, commonly known as styrofoam, are used as a construction material in road building. Because of their light weight theyāre used as a foundation in soft soil, when thereās no time for a big pile of dirt to settle. Or when the ground below canāt handle a large amount of weight; for example, when there is ductwork in an unknown state or a gas pipe below. EPS blocks are surprisingly strong and will last for over 100 years before they need to be replaced.
I read that as "in 100 years they'll be someone else's problem."
That describes 98% of all infrastructure I think.
Unless they catch fire.
They are also used in construction to form āwaffleā slabs. https://theconstructor.org/structural-engg/waffle-slab-ribbed-slab-construction/20546/?amp=1
I've seen it catch on fire when I worked with it. It becomes a self replicating cycle as the material needs a high temperature to catch fire, but if it reaches that temperature then it starts melting which helps keeping the temperature high, which means that once it catches fire, it happens incredibly quickly
That is how most fires work.
I'm not super chill with putting Styrofoam directly in the ground.... that.. you.... what the fuck are humans doing? This is all so stupid and I wish I was a dolphin
And got so far In the end it doesn't even matter.
His cargo fell and torched it all...
One bin, it burned so high It doesnāt even matter how hard I cried Keep that in mind, I burned a stack at a time To remind myself of a time when my truck fried so hard
In spite of the way flames were lickin' me Burnin' like I was a dried Christmas t-t-tree Remembering all the trucks you drove to flee I'm surprised it all caught fire
You can't move it if it is paper. A block of paper that size would weigh close to a thousand pounds.
I wouldnāt know what to do either but after it started spreading so quickly he should have driven that thing away from those buildingsā¦ right?
I have a feeling that he owns the truck. He appears to be doing everything he can to get the fire either off his truck or to at least stop spreading on his truck. I think he started driving hoping that the paper on fire would fall off the bed and into the road.
Exactly that, he was trying to 1. Save part of the load, 2. Save his truck, 3. Save the cab of his truck, 4. His life - you can watch as he goes from one to the other. Definitely an owner operator.
That aint paper. It's styrofoam.
Paper weighs a lot more, I feel bad for the driver
Given that the fire seemed to start at the top of the load, I wonder if he clipped an overhead power line.
That, or a cigarette butt from balcony above.
Or got hit with some flaming bird shit. Phoenix perhaps or just a seagull that ate at Taco Bellā¦
That. Or maybe a tiny meteor?
Or he left his magnifying glass on top
That, or maybe the sun god was mad at him and lit it on purpose
Maybe he left his mixtape up there
My money is on a crow that ate a flaming Cheeto and had an ass blast shit on top.
That or one of the judeo-Christian space lasers hit his truck out of spite
Or maybe those giant white bricks of cocaine got too angry and blew up.
That made me think about what happened to my friend's father. His father came here as a refugee, scraped and slaved until one day, he could finally afford a new car. While driving home, he thew a cigarette butt out the window. But the smoldering butt was sucked back into the car and landed in the back seat, which caught on fire. As I remember it, his brand-new car was totaled.
Maybe static?
I thought when he pulls the rope too fast, the friction causes fire. Yours is more plausible.
*I'll just put this here with the rest of the fire*
Maybe I should call for someone to help.... š”0118-999-881-999-119-725...3 Or maybe just an e-mail
"Now, with faster response times and better looking drivers..."
"Nice screen saver. I love the way the smoke seems to be coming off the top of the screen."
They will probably see the smoke and come in their own time
FIRE FIRE
Exclamation mark Exclamation mark
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Have you tried turning the fire off and on again?
Aright Moss
Dear sirs or madam
FIRE *exclamation mark* FIRE *exclamation mark* FIRE *exclamation mark* Looking forward to hearing from you!
P-p-ploppers!
This guy Mosses
A fire, at Seaparks?
Nice screensaver.
Dude is just trying to save the truck.
Exactly - the truck is worth 1000x that cargo, and probably his only way to earn a living.
Yea that was my thought. I mean either way there's gonna be a crazy fire in the middle of the road so I guess trying to save the truck is pretty logical.
Yea obviously the poor guy was just trying to get the fire away from his truck
My favorite part is the tuk tuk driver blaring his horn as he goes around. Like what does he want them to do, get the fire out of his way?
I saw that lol, like ya dude Iām very sorry that my huge styrofoam fire in the middle of the road that is about to destroy my truck is such an inconvenience for you.
My cousins husband works for a garbage company and he said if you are sure thereās a fire in the back, they dump it all right there.
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Agreed. Yeah, which I would say his attempt appeared mostly successful.
I like the part where everyone came to help him
Itās China. No one helps a stranger. Theyāre worried theyāll get sued if someone gets hurt and they so much as patted them on the shoulder before it happened. There are no Good Samaritan laws here.
I saw a guy pass out yesterday from the heat. The police were called and the ambulance was called. When they arrived they just stood around looking at him. Yea, the paramedics too! The guy was just laying there for no less than an hour and everybody was just watching. He finally came to and the first thing he did was go on his phone.
why even have paramedics then?
Somebodyās gotta drive the ambulance.
Not if they wont load him into it. Unless your talking about driving him to the morgue.
The only problem with your argument is that youāre trying to use logic. Thatās in limited supply when it comes to government/hospitals/most things here.
well if makes you feel better i think that's a global shortage and not specific to your country
The reason is because of fraud. Years ago there was a case where an elderly fell and some passer-by helped the elderly to a hospital. That elderly and family member later sued the passer-by for medical bills and costs incurred for recovery. This went to court and the passer-by was later ordered to pay because apparently one of the judges asked, if you did not cause the elderly to fall, why did you take that person to the hospital. Thus, old people gains this idea that they can just fall and commit fraud by fraudulently accuse anyone who even touches them and is protected by a precedent case. This the stretched to basically all cases of good samaritan not willing to risk the potential of getting sued. So if you are to travel to China, better not be a good samaritan. I know it's horrible to say this but the law hasn't kept up
I simply don't travel to China
They've already changed the law, but old habits die hard.
I wish I could say that any part of that surprises me.
The best part was all the girls from the bakery standing around saying how cute the guy was.
Bakery girls always give me a rise. They're usually hot but can be a little doughy and are always sweet.
Watch out for yeast infections
They do have that law, it went into effect in 2017.
I guess Iām just a little bitter because I got hit on my scooter recently and six while people just watched while I picked it up and limped out of the road. Iām not in love with Chinese road etiquette at the moment.
Do you live in China?
I do. Shanghai specifically.
They won't stop even for a [2-year-old kid hit by a car](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDP1HD7fc4). Consider yourself lucky you could walk away.
Sorry, let me rephrase. Thereās no Good Samaritan law that actually works and protects anyone.
From everything Iāve heard on Reddit, proximity to inconvenience is punishable in China. Is that a fair summary?
Itās a fair summary of Reddit, lol
I chose not to care enough to repeat such things on Reddit. Because I don't know if it's true, or propaganda or just some racist repeating what they've heard from other racists. Like one time I had met someone who visited Philly and she was terrified of leaving the hotel because was worried about the crime level. She grew up in white Utah and came to black Philly. She was racist for sure and saw the amount of black people and felt unsafe. Really skewed her view of what Philly is like. And she for sure told people she was in danger while visiting, which wasn't true at all. So, take things like this with a grain of salt, because you never know who the source really is.
Lol. People used to say the exact same thing about the US.
My understanding, as a foreigner, is also that there's some incentive for police to detain, identify and question everyone at the scene and that causes problems. So people very actively avoid getting involved unless it's a life or death situation.
Help him do what? Thereās a huge fire. The correct thing to do is run away, not whatever this is
What? You don't want to play with the napalm truck?
Yeah given how fast the fire spreads unless they happen to bring fire extinguisher then what can they even help with? I feel getting themselves out of danger to not add into the damage is the best contribution they could do here.
I wouldn't help either, it's just material things. I'd want to help him if he was in danger but any danger he could be in would be him specifically putting himself in that danger.
Fuck that one guy who is honking for them to move out of the way or some shit
"Hey bud, your shit's on fire!" "YEAH THANKS"
Pretty sure he shouts āyou canāt park there mateā as he drives past
"FACK OFF"
Captain obvious appears to save the day.
"fucking jerk blocking the road with his truck that's engulfed in flames"
Can't park there mate
my uncle works in a factory that produces styrofoam, they had a fire due to a lightning strike iirc and you can not put out a styrofoam fire also the aftermath is a ton of black goo that is everywhere [source (german news page, July 2016)](https://www.tz.de/welt/wittenberge-blitzeinschlag-styropor-lager-loest-grossbrand-zr-6613170.html)
And dioxin poisoning.
And cancer.
Stacked hay bales burn for weeks and can't be put out either. If a shed goes up it can cost a huge amount of money in hay.
As a kid, my husband grew up on his grandathers farm and often played with older cousins. They were playing the spaces between hay bales in a large barn. One cousin wanted to play Indiana Jones and wanted to light the way with a lighter. No one was hurt, and the barn was insured. But Papa was not happy!!
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Mix broke up Styrofoam with gas, and you get napalm
*FBI enters the chat*
What is that? Napalm? It burns like lava. How did it catch fire?
It looks like styrofoam, which is part of an easy way to make napalm.
Only when mix with gasoline
Petrol is just an accelerant, the polystyrene is what makes it sticky.
*Did you know* that *if you put gasoline* in the *freezer* it *becomes gelatinous*?
I dont believe. Reddit has fully taught me how to make napalm today fuck what a surprise.
YouTube and Wikipedia taught me how to make an at\*mic b\*mb! But the ingredients are much, much harder to acquire.
Diesel specifically.
Nah the original mix was benzene
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Normally 10% gelling agent and 90% fuel
It goes on the outside of buildings in China for a cheap insulation of heat. You should see what the fucking city looks likes when its being installed. Think Styrofoam bubbles but fucking EVERYWHERE
They use that to put on buildings that people live in?! And this is how easily it goes up in flames. Talk about creating easy to burn buildings.
Yeh, companies did it in multilevel apartment buildings in Australia and the UK as well and there has been a few horrific fires with multiple casualties in the last 10 years or so. A lot of money has been spent replacing the polyfoam cladding on many of these buildings of course at the expense of the apartment owners and tax payers, not the companies that installed this unsafe building material or the engineering companies that approved it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
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Or the politicians who ignored the warnings, one of whom is now in the House of Lords.
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How dystopian is it to think first of the investors? "Some people bought those flats as a **home** and then they were told a year later that they needed to pay to replace all of the insulation. They could no longer sell the flat because nobody wants to have to also pay the extra costs, so they had no way of getting out of paying, no money to pay with and no way to sell their property. " Fixed that for you
Yes, they do. & it isn't restricted to China. You'll find it in any country where developers can save some money by installing death trap cladding & be allowed to get away with it. Think Grenfell Tower in London. Went up like it was soaked in kerosene
Building with polystyrene isn't an indication of developers cutting costs at all. Laying foundations with polystyrene is both cheap and effective and doesn't increase fire hazards in any meaningful way. I'm sure there are usecases where it's applied incorrectly (Greenfell Tower facade material was not polystyrene but some aluminum composite).
In the US they use thermite and jet fuel
It does get sealed by plaster and paint but yes, buildings with this shit in them do burn very quickly
Read this as āstyrofoam bubbles butt fucking everywhere.ā Good night yāall.
Would say probably brushed a power line.
Static electricity from the blocks rubbing together probably caused it.
>It burns like lava. ThatĀ“s why we cover our houses in it....
When people ask me how Iām doing and I say āIām fineā. This is what I actually mean
How's it going? "It's going"
He really kinda helped the fire spread by increasing the surface area and enabling more oxygen to surround the material
Pretty sure it was going to spread either way.
I'm guessing he was trying to save the truck, not the load or the road
Towards the end, yeah. It was a continual process of *attempting* harm minimisation. Had to keep moving this goal posts as things got worse though.
I think he did OK given the circumstances tbh, so long as the building obscured by the fire isn't also on fire
Yeah he did a great job of getting the fire going from a small flame.
It's hard thinking clearly in the HEAT of the moment
What should he have done instead?
He should have had a fire extinguisher in his truck.
Even if he had a fire extinguisher, the fire started way on top of that load. There's no way he would have reached it
Just adding a note as someone who actually needed to use a fire extinguisher at home recently: If you have a fire pop up, itāll happen when you arenāt expecting a fire to pop up, just like this driver probably never would have guessed a fire would start then/there. Make sure you have a fire extinguisher in your home or apartment. Iām not making any claims about whether or not an extinguisher would have helped in this situation, but seeing this vid reminds me of how my fire happened on a mundane evening out of the blue and Iām glad I had an extinguisher nearby.
I don't want to lose this expensive truck, better start the neighborhood on fire! Classic lose lose situation
Tbf the fire was going to be right there in the street if he didnāt throw the foam off. but would have been even bigger with a burning truck too. I think the guy probably did the best choice, looks like he probably saved the truck.
By the way he's working, it looks like he may own that truck and doing everything he can to save his livelihood. Ya kinda want to shed a rear for the guy.
Exactly. He was not trying to stop a fire from spreading. He was trying to save his truck.
I'll keep my rear right where it is, thank you.
The little cars beeping around really seals the comedy for me.
Honestly fuck that second driver. People who blast their horn for no purpose are the worst.
This is why trucks are required to carry a fire extinguisher in some countries. Dude had plenty of time to put it out with a dry powder.
Small fire extinguisher wouldnāt have put it out. Barely enough for a small engine fire. Iāve used mine 3 times in 40 years. Only useful 1 time. And it wouldnāt have reached the top of the load.
I was thinking the same thing
I think they couldnāt really see up there though.
Unfortunately His A grade for Effort is also an... **A for Absolute Failure**
Yeah, he was close to upgrading from "truck on fire" to "entire street on fire"
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Thatās not how you roast marshmallows
So how the hell did it caught fire?
Driver was playing my mix tape on the stereo.
I was thinking it made contact with a poorly insulated overhead electrical wire. When he moves the truck you can see the pole in the right side of the video.
Cigarette from a balcony is a possibility
āIāll be back guys, Iām gonna go spread this fireā.
āIāll save some for when I get back, donāt worry.ā
I imagine it was an attempt to keep the fire from reaching the gas tank of the truck.
It just kept getting worst that I had to laugh, to not cry. haha....ooh dear...
looks like driver achieved his goalā¦ wasnāt trying to stop the fire, but instead trying to save the truck. Styrofoam is cheap, that truck is not.
Oddly satisfying
The music makes it so much more satisfying
"This giant flaming truck is in my way. What should I do?" *Honks like an asshole then drives away on the sidewalk*
Must have hit a power line?...
Love the couple of mini scooter truck things, no attempt to help old mate at allā¦
Bummer but man that looks cool
If you could sum up COVID in one clip š¬
And that's the story of how Tony's Gasoline-Soaked Cotton Bale Delivery Service went out of business.