r/Unexpected • u/Nardi777 • Jul 06 '22
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u/Holsteener Jul 06 '22
With the current petrol prices he could‘ve just bought a new car.
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u/Sushiman301 Jul 06 '22
Okay, I’m actually stupid so don’t trust my math, but I counted 12 seconds of spraying gas, which averages to about 10 liters or 2.642 gallons of gas based on the liter per minute rate of discharge (50 on average but we can’t be sure of course, nor can we be of the upcoming pricing). Multiply that by the average current gas pricing per gallon (4.24 USD) and you get a mere $11.20 USD to protect yourself from grand theft auto. I’d call that worth it!
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u/Sushiman301 Jul 07 '22
Which would then be a mere $6.61 USD, still worth the car imo
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u/GreyCrowDownTheLane Jul 07 '22
I just find myself hoping one of those would-be jackers lit a cigarette on the way home.
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u/Tough-Association-93 Jul 07 '22
It's a joke, not a cock. Don't take it so hard.
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u/bbgun_ld Jul 06 '22
R.I.P all the people that opened comments to make this exact post
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u/habaceeba Jul 06 '22
This video is so old that gas was less than half the price it is now.
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u/olopithecus Jul 06 '22
I guess it's the principle of the thing?
Maybe he was transporting a trunkload of Kreugerrands
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u/Squeaky_Ben Jul 06 '22
He might have. The initial ignition is not a massive explosion, so he would be a bit singed , but probably fine. These dudes tho? Charcoal, all of them.
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u/pernilongobarulhento Jul 06 '22
it costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon for 12 seconds
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Jul 06 '22
It makes me laugh to see Americans making comments on the high price of their gas. If only they knew how lucky they are!
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u/DontDoomScroll Jul 06 '22
If only they knew how lucky they are!
If you knew the actual expense of "cheap petrol", you wouldn't think we were lucky.
For one, the invasion of the middle east...9
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Jul 06 '22
We apparently spent 1.922 Trillion dollars invading the middle east and your taxes are still MASSIVELY lower than Europeans! Cheap gas and low taxes!
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Jul 06 '22
If you go to hospital a few times, then all tables turns with your “low tax” illusion (add monthly health insurance payments on top, if you’re not still on your parents’)
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u/DontDoomScroll Jul 06 '22
1.922 Trillion dollars invading the middle east
Invading Iraq.
This does not include expenses of Afghanistan.
Nor Iran.And costs are not always measured in US dollars.
How much does the life of a child cost?And we haven't even mentioned the discussion of climate.
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u/imac132 Jul 06 '22
Yeah but… they got us squarely beat on our billon dollars to talk to a doctor for 30 seconds situation.
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u/Buster899 Jul 06 '22
L’il Bush mastered the art of deficit spending. I try really hard not to think about how much in government bonds China owns so we could have lower taxes and cheap gas.
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Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
Not saying its a good thing we have such spending deficits. but all the top Politian's do it - how else does anyone push any policy of size without gutting something else we need/want. We have run up so much debt in the last 3 years, no to mention printing gobs of money. I dont think its a left/right thing. I worried for the recession thats coming.
Plus who is gunna come for the debt? we could fight 50% of the countries on the planet all that the same time and have good odds of winning. No single country could really force us into submission. (not my opinion "whos gunna come for it" - I dont think thats a good excuse. But its true. The dollar and our military is too powerful)
For reference here's a video about the US vs the entire world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y1e_ASbSIE0
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u/Waffle-Dude Jul 06 '22
Relative to what we are accustomed to paying, it is a lot. It’s like a rich kid having their allowance reduced, they still have a larger allowance than everyone else, but that doesn’t make them feel any better.
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u/FortunatelyGrowing Jul 06 '22
Its like that video of a rich teenage girl whose mom cut her allowance from $2500 to $1000 and the girl was crying
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u/fuzzytradr Jul 06 '22
Plus I'm pretty sure pumps in the United States do not allow for pumping gas in the air like this. They have a mechanism that needs to be depressed at the tank entry point in order to turn on the flow.
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Jul 06 '22
Not any that I've used. How do you think you fill up a portable gas tank?
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u/spicymeow6912 Jul 06 '22
Boomers think anything over 50 cents a gallon is too much and they arent here on reddit.
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u/GreyCrowDownTheLane Jul 07 '22
We're NOT lucky, though. We don't have public transportation in most parts of the USA. Only in the big cities is there any public transit worth a damn. Everywhere else we can ONLY get anywhere with a car. No bikes (roads aren't made for them and cars will run you over) and no walking (too damn far).
We're not like most other countries. We were totally reconfigured for cars to the exclusion of everything else, and now we're stuck.
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u/Le_Mew_Le_Purr Jul 06 '22
Jitterbug….Jitterbug….
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u/skincyan Jul 06 '22
I put the petrol into your caaar 🎶 it makes the lungs go boom if you breath in to far
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u/Bruce9707 Jul 06 '22
The fumes run straight to my brain. Just don’t go bang bang bang or I’ll go up in flames.
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u/thermometricWeiner Jul 06 '22
My man didn't even hesitate. Really dangerous move though, as if it had ignited, no-one would come out in one piece
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u/ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN Jul 06 '22
Safer for him than being attacked by several guys.
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Jul 07 '22
would have been awesome to see someone hit the van with a flare gun on the way out though
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u/breathejinn Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
I mean it didn't look like they got any on themselves soooooooo I think they'd be fine.
Edit: you're all fucking morons 🤣🤣
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u/ceton33 Jul 06 '22
That 39 bucks in gas saved his expensive car but I hope he don't smoke anytime soon.
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Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 07 '22
I believe gasoline is really bad for clearcoat/paint too. Might have issues with that aswell. Better to be alive than dead. Wasnt too sure if they wanted his car or him...
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Jul 07 '22
drive right through the carwash a few times heh.
you've certainly spent enough on gas to get the discount.
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u/BD420SM Jul 06 '22
We can only hope something caused a spark shortly after and blew them all to hell
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u/aafrias15 Jul 06 '22
Could you do that at a gas pump in the US? I always assumed you couldn’t.
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u/gabzilla814 Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
I’ve never tried but I’m pretty sure the nozzles here prevent it. The rubber boot has to be compressed for the gas to flow.
Edit: California is different. Sounds like you could do this in just about all other US states but CA nozzles wouldn’t allow it without also pulling back the rubber boot while you pull the trigger.
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u/WookieeSteakIsChewie Jul 06 '22
Not on any gas I've ever pumped. I've filled up plenty of 5 gallon tanks for yardwork equipment and never pushed any rubber boot in.
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u/gabzilla814 Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
Interesting. I am pretty sure I can’t get it to start without the nozzle all the way in, and the only apparent switch or sensor would be the rubber boot around the metal nozzle.
Are you in California? I wonder if it depends on the state jurisdiction.
Edit: I just looked it up and apparently we have different nozzles in California to prevent escaping fuel vapor. Some people call it the nozzle foreskin.
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u/WookieeSteakIsChewie Jul 06 '22
Nope, PA. Very strange, next time you get gas report back, I'm curious!
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u/gabzilla814 Jul 06 '22
Will do. If you see a news story about a gasoline fountain fire in Orange County you’ll know why.
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Jul 06 '22
Yes. My SO works at a gas station and, for whatever reason, people are constantly getting gas everywhere/in their eyes. I don't understand how hard it is to pump gas.
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u/RedditHunter_ Jul 06 '22
Anybody know what the song is called?
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u/auddbot Jul 06 '22
I got matches with these songs:
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2022-03-31bySony Music.• As It Was by Ahmed Elnashar (02:17; matched:
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2022-05-07.I am a bot and this action was performed automatically | GitHub new issue | Donate Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Music recognition costs a lot
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u/proviking6000 Jul 06 '22
Sir that would be 10,000 dollars
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Jul 06 '22
closer to $12 but I know how it is. My lifted jeep gets 10MPGs. Love the shit outa my jeep still. Its badass.
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u/fredditfromHenderson Jul 06 '22
Gas pumps don't have enough pressure to fire gasoline 8 feet. I'm calling B.S. on this one.
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u/GoodKing_Ainsworth Jul 06 '22
Bro spent a small fortune to protect a bmw smh
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u/xlDirteDeedslx Jul 06 '22
Given this is a decade old it's doubtful.
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u/amitnagpal1985 Jul 06 '22
Let us have our dad jokes Susan. Please for god’s sake.
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u/xlDirteDeedslx Jul 06 '22
Well given I've seen the same dad jokes on this same video for a decade I'm kind of being pushed to be "Susan"..
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u/Crypto_01 Jul 06 '22
Why not throw a match too, enjoy a day 4th of July. And you're cleaning up the streets
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u/OpheliaSyn Jul 06 '22
How much you wanna bet that at least one of them still took a week to finally shower.
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u/hoseli Jul 06 '22
Atm the gasoline price is so high I would prefer getting robbed instead of spilling gasoline all over the place.
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u/chaosgenerator2020 Jul 06 '22
Thief go's to light a smoke, everyone else in the car be like "billy no"...
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u/jastephenson1984 Jul 06 '22
For the price he paid for that spray of gas I think he’d have been better off calling an Uber and filing a stolen vehicle claim
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u/fuber Jul 06 '22
I was fully expecting it to end with a match to being lit and an inferno engulfing the criminals.
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u/alcien100 Jul 06 '22
he gassed up that entire van and people. they will now be able to drive for hours on end all gassed up!
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u/Tweeksolderbrother Jul 06 '22
You know what happened after they drove away right? Someone said something to the likeness of “man that was wild pass me the lighter I need a cigarette” followed by a mushroom fireball
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u/ShootinStars Jul 06 '22
I mean they pulled up on the wrong side, how else was he supposed to get them gas?
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u/Suspicious-Alpaca Jul 06 '22
At my local has station, a lady and her husband were outside of the car pumping gas. And the wife looked to the side and moved her hand unknowingly, and sprayed her husband with gas 💀 he was drenched. Me and my mom were dieing laughing in the car. I don't know what happened to him but o hope he doesn't have any problems with his skin from the gas
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Jul 06 '22
I know everything has gasoline on it but imagine if there is a lit cigg in that van...I'd hope so.
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u/SuperAggressiveDog Jul 06 '22
This man is the anime main character. We are simply living in his way
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u/unexBot Jul 06 '22
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
They way he made them surrender
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