Bully: You are going to do something illegal and expensive to an innocent bystander, or else.
Patsy: Uh, OK. But you have to pay for it.
Bully: No. Just do it, or else.
Patsy: Uh, OK. But if I get busted, you have to pay for me a lawyer.
Bully: Ahh. You won’t get busted. If you do, we’ll figure something out.
Patsy: Uh, OK.
Bully: No. Just do it, or else.
Patsy: Uh, OK.
Patsy then performs the illegal demand of the bully, and pays for it with his own money.
Innocent bystander then sues Patsy for performing the illegal demand.
Patsy: Uh, I’m gonna need that help you offered.
Bully: What on earth are you talking about?
Patsy pays for defense with his own money.
can you figure out what this is about?
hint
You could be both the Patsy and the innocent bystander.
wendy
4 years ago
Pat downs at Bucs games?
Sandy
4 years ago
That poor Mexican guy driving the Katrina bus who’s getting busted for everyone going up in flames? They had O2 on board, for Chrissakes! What was he supposed to do? Oh? Not him?
Never mind.
Sandy
4 years ago
Ok, ok, the pat-downs at RayJay. I was only kidding about the Mexican bus driver.
But not really.
editengine
4 years ago
I am confused I thought oxygen by itself was not flammable, the triangle is ignition, oxygen and fuel to create fire right? So how can o2 tanks explode? I thought they would just feed existing fires and make it burn hotter and faster. I know I am a moron already but can somebody answer this?
Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog » pat downs not down pat
4 years ago
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Sandy
4 years ago
Any firefighters out there got an answer for edit? Now I’m curious, too. I’ve just never seen the information on how the fire actually started in the first place. Nasal cannulas and 02 masks would create an outflow of fuel but how DID the fire start originally?
Sorry for the off-topic, Tommy.
tommy
4 years ago
I have no problem with the off-top…
Devon
4 years ago
Here’s your firefighter’s response.
You are correct about oxygen’s properties as a gas. It is not combustible in and of itself, but it supports combustion and will increase the intensity of any fire already present. The issue here is that the cylinders are under pressure and when they are heated their contents expand, leading to a catastrophic failure of the tank known as BLEVE (short for “boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion”). I was at a garage fire on Monday where the owner’s propane tanks were doing this, and it made for some pretty exciting times for the firefighters inside. Afterwards we found 8 foot 2×4’s stuck in the trees 20 feet above the garage. It’s the force of the explosion when the tank ruptures that causes so much damage, the 100 foot column of flame caused by the propane that is released is just the icing on the cake.
Class dismissed.
Devon
4 years ago
One more thing. In an oxygen enriched environment, many substances that are not normally considered combustible will ignite. Even a firefighter’s nomex gear will burn freely at a high enough o2 concentration. These conditions would make it extremely easy for a fire to take hold.