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lol rekt

 

[LGBR]

I think u posted the wrong video

 

[Bughead]

I think u posted the wrong video

I don't know, the stupidity of everyone involved is funny in a tragic sense.

 

[LGBR]

ya its funny in that "it didn't make me laugh or smile or feel good at all" way

 

[Baby Bew]

 

[DocHolliday]

Fight or flight. That reaction can go both ways.

 

[Falhawk]

Rajiv on Twitter:

 

[Reggs]

That was strangely engrossing. How dumb does everyone have to be to let the people stay inside the store when they KNOW there is a gas leak?

 

[samUwell]

apparently pretty dumb.

 

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apparently pretty dumb.

apearently indeed

 

[uno]

holy shit, little annoyed I didnt come up with that.

 

[[MD5]Hash]

That was strangely engrossing. How dumb does everyone have to be to let the people stay inside the store when they KNOW there is a gas leak?

I'll share a story in regards to this, that might give you some insight into the 'why?' of how something like that happens...


Some years ago I worked at a small gas station that was operating in a building that had switched hands, I don't know, maybe 5-6 times over the course of the life of the building; the building was constructed and has been in operation for close to 35-40 years now.

At the time I worked there it was owned by a small-time fueling company that thought they were going to snatch up the building, in hopes of selling it to a bigger gas company; like it was some kind of prime real estate, which it wasn't.

After making the purchase they quickly realized that the building, after being there for so long, was in a state of disrepair. I could post photos, I might do that, maybe not. There were some catastrophic issues with the building, one of which included the heating system throughout the building.

The building was divided into three main sections, one section housed the gas station itself, the middle section served as a maintenance and control room for the car wash, and the car wash operated in it's own separate section. Because the building wasn't originally designed with all of this in mind during the initial construction, they didn't accommodate for a central heating/cooling system throughout the building.

Winters get pretty cold here, and without some kind of heating the water main in the carwash would break, spilling tens of thousands of gallons of water. So the heating system they had running throughout the non-gas station protions of the building consisted of these heaters that were electrically operated and would burn natural gas through a heating element to warm the building.

Leading into Spring, they brought in a maintanance guy to come in because the pipes kept bursting in the building, despite the heating system, and they went into the middle room and stuffed a fuckton of insulation into the top of the room, which was otherwise open-air-connected to the rest of the building; without checking to see if the heating system was actually working anyways.

Well, it turned out that the heaters weren't working, but were still running natural gas through them. One day while I was at work, my boss went to the bank, and while she was gone I went outside to have a cigarette. I wasn't aware at the time about the insulation thing, I found that out later. Anyways, I go outside and you could smell natural gas all the way across the parking lot.

I didn't know where it was coming from though, but I went inside and could smell it inside the building too. I tried to call my boss, but she'd left her phone at the store in her office. Now, I should point out that there's a school house behind our building, like 1-4 graders or something, mostly little kids, so I wasn't taking this situation lightly, and I've seen first-hand what happens when buildings explode from gas leaks, it's unfucking-real.

So I called 911 and reported the leak...

Within about 5 minutes I hear sirens coming from every direction. Patrol cars, fire engines, ambulances, the power company, the gas company, hazmat trucks.

They quaranteened off the entire fucking block around the building, had the kids evacuate out of the school, cut power to the entire block, shut the gas off. I didn't take any photos at the time, but there were probably 6-8 patrol cars on scene, plus multiple patrol cars on each end of the intersection nearest the building redirecting traffick, 5 fire trucks involved, 2 ambulances on standby, 2-3 vehicles each from the gas AND power company, two hazmat trucks. Traffic in all directions was slowed to a crawl.

I've never seen a bigger clusterfuck from a single 911 call in my life (at least in person) up to that point as that moment right there.

So my boss comes back from the bank after these guys all get there, and I'm trying to explain the situation to the fire marshal while the utility companies are shutting everything off.

Here's thing I would stress about gas stations: Unless you go to a new gas station, most of them, under the hood, are in a state of disrepair and will remain that way until something critically fails, a new owner takes over the business and refurbishes everything, or catastrophe strikes. There is almost never an in-between.

They view expenditures and repairs as being detrimental to the bottom line unless the expenditure is directly related to increasing profitability of the business. This is why they'll spend thousands on a new POS system to more efficiently get customers in and out of the store, but not jump on the opportunity to repair damage pumps or take of the building itself.

They're frugal almost to the point of insanity; and this is almost all of them.

So the 911 call is made, we're moved to a safe distance, everything is shut down... Then what happened?

Well, now comes the point of all of this... The fallout of the 911 call was that every skeleton in their closet came out. Like what do I mean?

Well, how about the fact that, rather than having a plumber come out and replace the gas lines in the building, or fixing the heating system, they literally used plumber's putty on the broken pipe to try and seal it off... They discovered over 37 additional gas leaks due to corroded/damaged pipes in the building after the fact.

The only heating/cooling system in the building was in such a state of disrepair, and the structural integrity of the building was so shitty that there was a risk that the actual heating system was going to collapse into the building...

That we dodged a fucking bullet because the back room had so much shoddy wiring and damaged components that the fact that the building didn't go up like a nuclear fucking bomb kind of shocked all the first reponders that came down...

So ... what's the point? Well, the point is that my 911 phone call bankrupted the company. Not even joking, the next day they had so many OSHA violation reports, and had to put so much into repairing everything that they literally were forced out of business. It's not like they didn't know this stuff was going on, they were just okay with it as long as no one knew/complained about it.

I was called later that evening by the head honcho lady from the top of the company and was asked that I not come into work the following day; I was told they had to close the location temporarily for some repairs, and that they were in support of my contacting 911 to report the issue.

The following day I got another phone call, telling me that I was no longer employed there, and that I was barred from entering the location, and that I would be escorted from the building and possibly be arrested if I was seen at any of the other locations or at their headquarters. I was also told I was not allowed to speak about any of it to any of the other employees.

Not long after the only other employee, that wasn't the manager of that location, quit her job there because she was concerned about her safety, and because she was told she wasn't allowed to talk about anything that happened to anyone else in the company, or outside of the company.

Shortly thereafter, they closed up shop and eventually sold the location to another company - who did, thankfully, take up the task of making all of the shit wrong with that location right. They went out of business shortly thereafter.

 

[LGBR]

man that's a lot of effort for a post no one is gonna read

 

[FiEND]

i read it. wtf do you think we come here for, it's a forum to read and write shit.

 

[KingSobieski]

I think u posted the wrong video

ya its funny in that "it didn't make me laugh or smile or feel good at all" way

Somewhere, somehow, gas leak accidents touched a sore spot


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[DocHolliday]

I read it. Good story.

 

[lemon]

cliffs etc.

 

[LGBR]

Somewhere, somehow, gas leak accidents touched a sore spot


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not rly it was just dumb as fuck like 99% of everything u post

nothing personal

 

[Plasmatic]

I'll share a story in regards to this, that might give you some insight into the 'why?' of how something like that happens...

Spoiler

Some years ago I worked at a small gas station that was operating in a building that had switched hands, I don't know, maybe 5-6 times over the course of the life of the building; the building was constructed and has been in operation for close to 35-40 years now.

At the time I worked there it was owned by a small-time fueling company that thought they were going to snatch up the building, in hopes of selling it to a bigger gas company; like it was some kind of prime real estate, which it wasn't.

After making the purchase they quickly realized that the building, after being there for so long, was in a state of disrepair. I could post photos, I might do that, maybe not. There were some catastrophic issues with the building, one of which included the heating system throughout the building.

The building was divided into three main sections, one section housed the gas station itself, the middle section served as a maintenance and control room for the car wash, and the car wash operated in it's own separate section. Because the building wasn't originally designed with all of this in mind during the initial construction, they didn't accommodate for a central heating/cooling system throughout the building.

Winters get pretty cold here, and without some kind of heating the water main in the carwash would break, spilling tens of thousands of gallons of water. So the heating system they had running throughout the non-gas station protions of the building consisted of these heaters that were electrically operated and would burn natural gas through a heating element to warm the building.

Leading into Spring, they brought in a maintanance guy to come in because the pipes kept bursting in the building, despite the heating system, and they went into the middle room and stuffed a fuckton of insulation into the top of the room, which was otherwise open-air-connected to the rest of the building; without checking to see if the heating system was actually working anyways.

Well, it turned out that the heaters weren't working, but were still running natural gas through them. One day while I was at work, my boss went to the bank, and while she was gone I went outside to have a cigarette. I wasn't aware at the time about the insulation thing, I found that out later. Anyways, I go outside and you could smell natural gas all the way across the parking lot.

I didn't know where it was coming from though, but I went inside and could smell it inside the building too. I tried to call my boss, but she'd left her phone at the store in her office. Now, I should point out that there's a school house behind our building, like 1-4 graders or something, mostly little kids, so I wasn't taking this situation lightly, and I've seen first-hand what happens when buildings explode from gas leaks, it's unfucking-real.

So I called 911 and reported the leak...

Within about 5 minutes I hear sirens coming from every direction. Patrol cars, fire engines, ambulances, the power company, the gas company, hazmat trucks.

They quaranteened off the entire fucking block around the building, had the kids evacuate out of the school, cut power to the entire block, shut the gas off. I didn't take any photos at the time, but there were probably 6-8 patrol cars on scene, plus multiple patrol cars on each end of the intersection nearest the building redirecting traffick, 5 fire trucks involved, 2 ambulances on standby, 2-3 vehicles each from the gas AND power company, two hazmat trucks. Traffic in all directions was slowed to a crawl.

I've never seen a bigger clusterfuck from a single 911 call in my life (at least in person) up to that point as that moment right there.

So my boss comes back from the bank after these guys all get there, and I'm trying to explain the situation to the fire marshal while the utility companies are shutting everything off.

Here's thing I would stress about gas stations: Unless you go to a new gas station, most of them, under the hood, are in a state of disrepair and will remain that way until something critically fails, a new owner takes over the business and refurbishes everything, or catastrophe strikes. There is almost never an in-between.

They view expenditures and repairs as being detrimental to the bottom line unless the expenditure is directly related to increasing profitability of the business. This is why they'll spend thousands on a new POS system to more efficiently get customers in and out of the store, but not jump on the opportunity to repair damage pumps or take of the building itself.

They're frugal almost to the point of insanity; and this is almost all of them.

So the 911 call is made, we're moved to a safe distance, everything is shut down... Then what happened?

Well, now comes the point of all of this... The fallout of the 911 call was that every skeleton in their closet came out. Like what do I mean?

Well, how about the fact that, rather than having a plumber come out and replace the gas lines in the building, or fixing the heating system, they literally used plumber's putty on the broken pipe to try and seal it off... They discovered over 37 additional gas leaks due to corroded/damaged pipes in the building after the fact.

The only heating/cooling system in the building was in such a state of disrepair, and the structural integrity of the building was so shitty that there was a risk that the actual heating system was going to collapse into the building...

That we dodged a fucking bullet because the back room had so much shoddy wiring and damaged components that the fact that the building didn't go up like a nuclear fucking bomb kind of shocked all the first reponders that came down...

Spoiler

So ... what's the point? Well, the point is that my 911 phone call bankrupted the company. Not even joking, the next day they had so many OSHA violation reports, and had to put so much into repairing everything that they literally were forced out of business. It's not like they didn't know this stuff was going on, they were just okay with it as long as no one knew/complained about it.

I was called later that evening by the head honcho lady from the top of the company and was asked that I not come into work the following day; I was told they had to close the location temporarily for some repairs, and that they were in support of my contacting 911 to report the issue.

The following day I got another phone call, telling me that I was no longer employed there, and that I was barred from entering the location, and that I would be escorted from the building and possibly be arrested if I was seen at any of the other locations or at their headquarters. I was also told I was not allowed to speak about any of it to any of the other employees.

Not long after the only other employee, that wasn't the manager of that location, quit her job there because she was concerned about her safety, and because she was told she wasn't allowed to talk about anything that happened to anyone else in the company, or outside of the company.

Shortly thereafter, they closed up shop and eventually sold the location to another company - who did, thankfully, take up the task of making all of the shit wrong with that location right. They went out of business shortly thereafter.

interesting read. I've seen way too much wiring like this in businesses too. We usually just walked out.

 

[Dangerdoggie]

cliffs etc.

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon did a really shitty job running that Kwik-E-Mart all those years.