Man drinks gasoline from jar, lights up, dies

[bathroommonkey76]

HAVELOCK, N.C. -- Police say a North Carolina man is dead after he accidentally drank from a jar of gasoline and then smoked a cigarette.

Havelock police received a 911 call about 9:55 p.m. Monday after 43-year-old Gary Allen Banning set himself on fire. Banning was transported to UNC Burn Center in Chapel Hill, where he died early Tuesday morning.

City spokeswoman Diane Miller said investigators believe Banning was at a friend's apartment when he apparently mistook a jar of gasoline sitting by the kitchen sink for a beverage. After taking a gulp, he spit the gas out and got some on his clothes.

More here:

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8562737

[Lint Head]

1. Get Darwin on the phone right now!

[backscatter712]

2. Darwin Award nominee? N/t

[Uncle Joe]

3. Look for this on a new episode of "1000 Ways to Die."

Thanks for the thread, bathroommonkey.

[bathroommonkey76]

10. Don't tell me there is a reality show called "1000 Ways to Die"

[Uncle Joe]

14. I'm afraid so, on Spike T.V.

http://www.spike.com/shows/1000-ways-to-die

I believe that network's primary audience is young men.

[Initech]

16. Actually their primary audience is young men w/ low IQs.

I'm waiting for that channel to launch "OW! My Balls!"

[Uncle Joe]

19. I've only watched one episode as I was flipping through the stations

They re enact strange deaths, on this particular show some guy's girlfriend brings a sack of bananas to his apartment.

When he reaches in the sack, a tropical spider; which had hitched a ride on the bananas bites him.

He thinks nothing of it and has sex with his girlfriend, after she leaves he still has an erection so he calls another girl and they have sex, after she leaves, he still's stiff as Santorum so he calls up yet another girl, this man's strength wasn't faithfulness, after having sex yet again he dies of a heart attack.

The program stated his sexual excitement and ultimate heart attack is how this spider venom works, sort of like viagra on steroids.

[11 Bravo]

4. At the very least he should be buried with his Darwin Award.

[Snake Alchemist]

5. Anyone ever see "Better Off Dead"? nt

[hobbit709]

6. Starting with why would anyone keep a jar of gasoline next to the kitchen sink

and going from there to the point of lighting a cigarette while reeking of gasoline.

how did this fool get to be 43 in the first place.

[librechik]

7. cigarettes kill. Instantly. n/t

[ecstatic]

8. I don't think the Final Destination writers

can top that one. What a crazy way to go!

[bathroommonkey76]

9. Is it wrong that I laughed when I first read this story?

[Broderick]

11. yes

lol

[thelordofhell]

12. Exclusive Video Of The Event!!!

[mick063]

13. ummm

What does gas smell like? At 43, he does't know?

Light up a smoke after drinking gasoline? Really?

[SlimJimmy]

15. That was my thought as well.

[siligut]

17. I am betting alcohol was involved

This is sad.

[hifiguy]

18. You didn't notice the distinctive stink of gasoline

as you lifted it up to your phiz? You had to DRINK the stuff before you figured out that it was GAS? This is the herd doing some self-thinning in this case.

Although an equally good question is who in the blue hell keeps a jar of gasoline sitting next to the kitchen sink?

Lots of idiots combined to get this result.