Why is mobile phone use banned at petrol stations?

[junglistni]

Funny how many people don't read the descriptions of videos before posting a comment.Never fails to amuse me. I havn't seen the mythbusters episode, but a UK show called Brainiac tried something similar where they filled a caravan up with petrol, placed a load of phones inside, and called them. Nothing happened. Then they got a guy to stand in a bucket, wearing a nylon tracksuit, he generated a charge, then touched a wire, static elec = BooM! You don't see warnings for tracksuits anywhere...

[jjson89]

@junglistni is it because they did not pick up the phone? because in the episode of mythbusters, they did not taken into consideration of a called being actually ANSWERED. The phone just kept ringing and ringing and nothing happened. Also they did not simulate the call being dialed out while the person is fueling up. Just something I thought about after watching it

[SlayerofFiction]

@jjson89 the video is edited above, the moron in the actual full video (you can see the left side) pulls a lighter out of his pocket and holds it into the tank, A cell phone cannot under any circumstances unless it explodes ignite gas, this is common sense, think of all the electronics within your car engine itself, not to mention your stereo, watch, so on and so forth, so please, quit spreading lies and uninfromed bullshit, thanks.

[prabulk]

guys, I m just wondering.. if we just take the phone out of the equation..,

Can it be that his hand was too dry, and by puting and taking his hand out of the pocket he creates more static energy on his fingers by rubbing it on his jacket fabric, so that a spark jumps from his fingers to the body of the truck .. ??

sometimes it happens to me when I drive my car and tring to close the door . I had to change the seat covers and steering wheel cover to finally stop it .. LOL

[exnol]

Try asking anyone with a degree in Electrical Engineering or physics what caused the above incident. They will tell you one word : "static"

There is no "some kind of electric current that emmnated from a mobile" The only thing is RF waves at 900/1800MHz range and this will not cause sparks in such cases. Only an EMP can causes sparks so easily.

In the above clip, it is pretty evident that the cause is static which ignites the fumes when he open the lid.

[SlayerofFiction]

@exnol the video above is edited, so you cannot see hte moron using a Lighter to look down inside the Tank, which you can clearly see in unedited versions (film is cropped)

[exnol]

@SlayerofFiction lololol.... lighter to look inside... lol. He is really a piece of work...

[amsukhi]

how we can download this video

[dalecanonrock]

Where were the balls from ?

[bjcasper]

I got hypnotized with the background music. Could please someone tell me the title of the song

[666Kash666]

this is bullshit.. this has nothing to do with em radiations.. lame

[dalecanonrock]

@666Kash666 try on the gas station, probably it won't work.

[666Kash666]

@dalecanonrock

its cos of static electricity.. ever heard of "science class"?

and fyi ive used cell phones soooooo many times and ive seen many ppl use them in fuel stations and im not charred up fucktard

[dalecanonrock]

@666Kash666 I said, probably. What's wrong with you and your profanity ?

[Allgoodnicksrtaken]

If mobile phones can create this kind of effect on machinery, do you imagine what kind of effect they probably have on our body?

[NINJAMOUSE21]

@Allgoodnicksrtaken this is not cause from cell phones signal. it is cause or the cell fone electricks. This can happen with any device that use electric current.

[SlayerofFiction]

@NINJAMOUSE21 Really so cars just spontaniously ignite because of all the electric windows,door locks, stereo's, and of course electronics powering the Engine, little more thought and please dont breed.

[NINJAMOUSE21]

@SlayerofFiction Thas why you should always stop engine

[SlayerofFiction]

@NINJAMOUSE21 False, you are told to shut hte engine off encase gas spills and runs onto exhaust, it has nothing to do with the electronics of the engine.

[NINJAMOUSE21]

@SlayerofFiction , however, has not established a dangerous link between wireless phones and fuel vapors. Wireless phone manufacturers and fuel companies have issued these warnings as a precaution. All the electronic devices in gas stations are protected with explosive containment devices, while cell phones are not. The threat mobile phones pose to stations is primarily the result of their ability to produce sparks that can be generated by the high-powered battery inside the phone.

[SlayerofFiction]

@NINJAMOUSE21 and again, false, if you were to take a gas pump and look at the electronics, nothign there in is covered and or protected, energy surges through it just fine, I know ,I have worked on them as I was maintenance at a fascility, and one more time, look up, your lighting ect, there is absolutely no way in hell unless your cell phone was to explode that it can start a fire, proven over and over again, the warnings exist because of supersticious idiots covering their asses.

[NINJAMOUSE21]

@NINJAMOUSE21 A properly-working cell phone poses almost no danger of igniting gasoline, even when surrounded by gasoline vapor with the optimum fuel-air mix for ignition. The actual risk comes from an electrostatic discharge between a charged driver and the car, often a result of continually getting into and out of the vehicle.

[NINJAMOUSE21]

@NINJAMOUSE21 A properly-working cell phone poses almost no danger of igniting gasoline, even when surrounded by gasoline vapor with the optimum fuel-air mix for ignition. The actual risk comes from an electrostatic discharge between a charged driver and the car, often a result of continually getting into and out of the vehicle.

[johnianflores]

@Allgoodnicksrtaken exactly, i remember a few years ago when the news thing abt cp radiation effect on our brains was debunked and said to be highly unlikely to cause brain cancer....

[SlayerofFiction]

@johnianflores actually not entirly true, plenty of studies have shown the effect of Cell phones on children causes abnormal growth.

[2006KANISHKJAISWAL]

@Allgoodnicksrtaken dude it was not mobile signal

it was d circuit in which current started flowing

it can happen wid any device which uses a circuit(most of dem do)

[SlayerofFiction]

@Allgoodnicksrtaken none because the moron in the video used a lighter to look into the tank.

[thettalos]

one of the bigest myths of all time. there is no reported incident of explosion caused bye cell phone neither in gas station nor airplane. the reason they bann it is the fear that may some day cause an explosion. if that was true we would have explosions in oil refineries and power plants every day.cell phones cant be a sourse of ignition. static electricity? imagine baning wool jumpers.!!!!! you people are so naive! and tell tha this video is the proof cause u hardly see whats going on there!

[matthewmcneilluk]

They are putting other peoples lives at risk at the petrol station Inc staff and customers, you can't use it when driving or on a aeroplane so don't fucking use it at a petrol station (ARSE HOLES) the signs are on the forecourt for a reason, its the vapour that is dangerous and stays low to the ground and can hide in all sorts of gaps and hiding places for a long time.

[sovietspyguy]

@matthewmcneilluk The signs are there for the "reason" that people hear something enough and assume it's true. Cell phones are not sources of ignition, PERIOD. End of story. Whatever superstitions people have about them are totally irrelevant. If enough people believed that thinking about ice cream while getting gas could cause fires, they'd have signs about that too...just to be safe.

[AuntTraci]

Any electronic device can be engineered to work safely in an explosive/combustible enviroment. Like radio's for construction worker in confined spaces.

Cell phones are not.

And if people would read the book that came with thier cell phone they could read it for themselves.

I'm o.k. with someone using a cell phone at a pump provided thier alone and endangering no one else at the pump. I like watching the video of them burning.

It's just natures way of clearing out the ignorant.

[Mikerhodes09]

@zuss10r

What about touchscreen phones, there are no buttons required to answer a call on a touchscreen, hence no electrical contacts?????

[trex0911]

it's not about electrical contacts, it is about static electric charge, for example the same one that is created when you wear a wool jumper and you create a spark when you touch someone else or an metalic object

[Mikerhodes09]

My point exactly, there is nothing dangerous about mobile phones, static charge on the other hand...

[trex0911]

well, looks like that when you are called or you are attempting a call the phone is creating a static charge and if your phone is close to some other metallic objects and you are really unlucky that can be high enough to ignite some petrol vapours

[Mikerhodes09]

true. I agree any kind of static charge is very dangerous at the station as its not as obvious as a naked flame or a bare wire. And i guess phones do create it making them a hazard - but it's nothing to do with spaking contacts on the phone. Besides they wouldn't make a phone that sparked on purpose! would be irresponsible of the company.

[45cRx45]

Um, if the phone caused the explosion, then why didn't the flash start at the phone????

If you look closely, in the last seconds of this video (at 2:45), if you can actually pause it, you see the flash start from behind the guy holding the phone. His phone is in his left hand and his body is between the explosion and the phone. If the phone caused the explosion, wouldn't the flash start at the phone where the spark is allegedly being started????

[l6omega]

i work at a servo in australia. every half hour atleast 1 person trys this shit. I get abused constantly. I just want someone to die already and teach people a lesson

[45cRx45]

It sounds like you working at a petrol station is the same as Homer Simpson working at a Nucular(!) Plant.

[snapeyboy]

Also, I have commented this video to many people who are high up in BP, as I work for BP Australia. We constantly get on the PA and stop the pump for people using their mobile phone, and there have even been mere punch ups in the store in regards to customers seeing another customer using their phone beside a pump. Static Electricity is a dangerous thing people... it may not hit you once, but it could hit you again.

[snapeyboy]

The fact that myth busters proved this as 'wrong' is because they didn't answer the phone. When you answer the phone, a static electricy is given. The same thing happened to a woman in Sydney just recently, she didn't put her jerry can on the ground, earthing it, and because it wasn't on the ground it caused her ute to blow up. It's the same thing when you work with compter parts. static electricity is dangerous.

[45cRx45]

Um yes they did answer the phone!!

[TCFan25]

I feel sorry for the truck driver more than anything else... and the petrol station employees

[trex0911]

imagine the feelings of the victim for the person who called him at that moment

[sprucemaroose]

This is bollocks. The text is not what is happening. All over Europe people talk on their phones in petrol stations. Mobile phone companies use petrol station signs to put masts in FFS!

[agun17]

what are those balls bouncing around for?

[partblah]

first af all type your age before comment OMG

For example I 'm 20, and not beaten to death as a child

looks like a basement, enough for me, just open your cell's manual and read, no need to be a genius to read..

"Cause mythbusters said so" / "Used a lighter over a tanker" etc, is so 12 yo answers

[NightbringerMinion]

it was a lighter you morons not a phone

[pindalanderz]

they can be a source of ignition but you have to be talking on it already. it has to build up a charge. a cell phone wouldn't have ignited that tanker anyways because even if he would have been talking on it for a few minutes he was grounded. in order for something to ignite from a shock, the fumes it generates have to be the base of the shock. the shock has to travel straight through the gas in the perfect way. peizoelectric lighters don't work when you're skydiving. it's the same thing.

[compo9919]

even if it was a cell phone (which it wasnt) it wouldnt have set on fire even if you took the safety chip out cos they tested it on mythbusters

[peacein93]

Ummmm.... I really don't think you can know for sure that's a cell phone.

[zuss10r]

No he wasn't! I drive fuel tankers for Shell, and have seen this numerous times, and also wwhat the report into this incident stated as the cause. Use of a cell phone as a light source. The risk has nothing to do with radio waves etc., simply, they are not intrisically safe, and every time you push those buttons, you are making an electrical contact. And thats not to mention the battery. How many times has your phone cut out due to a loose battery?

[smokeydogsmokey]

why does tjhe tape pause just before and u say half way through he takes a call but later on u say he uses his phone to illuminate the area in which case he wud of done nothing more than made the screen brighter which may mean we shudnt use lights at a petrol station either incase we "light" the fumes, im going with built up static on the truck cuz im pretty sure ur supposed to ground them on something before trying to open stuff.

[Edomaestro]

that's stupid,very normal in americans and spanish retarded people

[TheBigLigginski]

I work at a service station. The threat of fire is not to due with electrical currents or anything along those lines; any electrical equipment could potentially have a fault in the circuitry due to either age, damage or bad assembly, and if this fault were to cause a spark on the forecourt it could easily ignite any contacting petrol vapours.

[Jugemon76]

I can't see any cell phones.

[zoidberg3009]

i saw on myth busters that cell phones cant do that

[Gitreal]

No... what you saw was Mythbusters unable to repeat the ignition.... that doesn't mean it can't be done.

[CRF250RGUY]

MAybe its jus static electricity? Jus coinceedence with the phone

[Olidomaru]

you idiot, that man is scarred and burned for the rest of his life, he might even be dead! Show a little bit of respect...Besides if you are so smart Babylonar, tell me, how would you illuminate it without using an electrical appliance? A match O, maybe a lighter??? GEEZ you're really so much better asshole...

[babylonark]

the guy is so stupid.... hahaha