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BigBen · 03-07-2005, 02:26 PM

About flour being flammable;

My grandfather was a grain elevator operator (grain buyer) all his life, and a heavy smoker. He never lit a cigarette inside the building, because grain dust is not only flammable, but EXPLOSIVE!!

In the early 60s, he was on the roof of the elevator (about 17 stories tall) and decided to have a quick dart. He threw the butt off the edge of the building (heck, no fault, he was on the outside, right?) and it landed in the intake of a grain hopper car sitting on the train tracks outside the building. The hopper car BLEW UP, causing massive damage to the building, surrounding cars, and ol' pappy's pride. The wheat pool issued a policy that smoking was not allowed 50 feet from the building, and therefore that included the roof.

Gotta love those 60s. I hear a lot of cool shit went down back in those days...

03-07-2005, 02:26 PM	#126 (permalink)
BigBen Comedian Location: Use the search button	About flour being flammable; My grandfather was a grain elevator operator (grain buyer) all his life, and a heavy smoker. He never lit a cigarette inside the building, because grain dust is not only flammable, but EXPLOSIVE!! In the early 60s, he was on the roof of the elevator (about 17 stories tall) and decided to have a quick dart. He threw the butt off the edge of the building (heck, no fault, he was on the outside, right?) and it landed in the intake of a grain hopper car sitting on the train tracks outside the building. The hopper car BLEW UP, causing massive damage to the building, surrounding cars, and ol' pappy's pride. The wheat pool issued a policy that smoking was not allowed 50 feet from the building, and therefore that included the roof. Gotta love those 60s. I hear a lot of cool shit went down back in those days... __________________ 3.141592654 Hey, if you are impressed with my memorizing pi to 10 digits, you should see the size of my penis.