What a load of bollocks. You can’t ignite gasoline with a cigarette. Especially when the gasoline has been diluted in the toilet bowl. I learned this when my stepdad (mechanic) poured gas into a small can, placed it on the shop floor and continued to toss lit cigarettes into it. Nothing but extinguished butts.
Hi Jimmy, yes you CAN ignite petrol with a cigarette.........A long time ago..{here we go..
} we had a rather unsavoury guy that lived across the road and down a little, he was always abusing us for any and everything, he was just a cranky old prick.....Anyway one night we decided to siphon some fuel from his old Bedford truck he used to park on the street. We siphoned the fuel into a 100 litre garbage bin we had, we put the bin, full of fuel, onto the trunk of my old V8 falcon {ford} and proceeded to siphon the fuel into my car. My mate {also Mick} was smoking a cigarette and flicked it and it hit the side of the car and the fuel fumes ignited, this was 2 in the morning and we had a 10 foot flame shooting out of my fuel tank. Mick, in all his infinite wisdom, punched the bin to get it out of the way, in doing so we ended up with a wall of flames that not only woke up his Mother but it lit up the street as well, chaos ensued. While all this was happening i managed to throw a blanket over the fuel filler on my car and the flames went out........A cigarette will certainly ignite fuel fumes, fuel fumes are heavier than the air around them so even if there was only a small quantity of fuel in that toilet, if there was enough time for it to settle, the smell would have been minimal and it could have ignited,either way it is a funny story....
Mick
