THURMAN, N.Y. - A tip for would-be gasoline thieves. When stealing gas in the dark, don't use a lighter to see how you're doing. Police in Warren County say that's what Glen Germain Junior did when he was siphoning gas from a dump truck at a business in the Adirondacks last month.

The sheriff's department says Germain was transferring the fuel from the truck to a gas can when he used a lighter to see how full the container had become.

That sparked a fire that caused minor burns to his face and hands. The fire spread to a nearby forklift, which was destroyed in the blaze.

Germain has been charged with petit larceny and criminal mischief.

The arrest was Germain's second in a month for stealing gasoline from businesses in the town of Thurman, about 65 miles north of Albany.
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It is people like him that help me in my belief that humans are screwed...

Amen to that Kratos......aye chihuahua....

thinking things through is never mandated... i have heard of a lot worse when it comes to gas "mishaps".

He should be a nominee for the 2005 Darwin Awards!

Definitely a swimmer in the shallow end of the gene pool.

Huh? What the hell is wrong with these people? Where do they come from and what makes them do stupid things like this? Wow...simply amazing.

*falls over giggling* That sounds like something that happened in my home town back in Illinois a few years ago. These two hicks shared a trailor. They had one gasoline can, that was the old metal style and one of them thought it was leaking. So he dragged the leaking gas can into the house to show his friend. So they got the grand idea of using a candle to dip down into the can to see how full it was and how much had leaked out. Shortly afterwards they were left with a charred box spring and a several burns to show for their trailor.

LOL

what a moron

^ That post just about sums it about.

only in america could we have somebody that friggin' stupid!

Boy, that's the sad, sad truth....

"If you use a lighter in the proccess of stealing gasoline.....YOU might be a Redneck!"

Dumbass!

Can we say DUH??!! LOL

The perecentage of people from the entire human race that are actually this stupid is far, far, too high and sadly this what is holding back this race.