# Take the gas pipe! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312 "2012-05-08T19:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312/1 "2012-05-08T19:19:44Z")
According to someone on the street, someone round the corner snuffed himself with gas. Loads of fire trucks out there, and there’s been a helicopter hovering. Nothing in the online news so far, and my radio only gets FM. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312/2 "2012-05-08T20:16:38Z")
By “snuffed himself with gas” do you mean self-immolation? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312/3 "2012-05-08T20:26:02Z")
No, the story I’ve heard is that a man turned the gas on in his apartment and asphyxiated himself. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312/4 "2012-05-09T00:11:43Z")
Years ago in the old neighborhood, a guy in an apartment around the corner from my house tried to do that. Apparently the pilot light to the water heater was still on. The explosion blew out my kitchen plate glass window. The guy did not get killed, but it sure left a hole on the block. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312/5 "2012-05-09T01:16:13Z")
Slight hijack… A few years ago the guys next door to me were renovating and had a ditch-witch and hit a 600psi gas line, no explosion but a 6+ hour evac, haz-mat team in space suits, all of the fire trucks in Houston etc. We were very lucky, Fire Marshall told me no matter how fast I ran if it went so did I, too much gas to quickly. Would have leveled blocks Please if you have to end it, don’t turn on the gas ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312/6 "2012-05-09T14:42:10Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Please if you have to end it, don’t turn on the gas Exactly! Its not like gas is rocket science\*. _Rocket science is where you_ try \*to get as many people as possible into orbit. Working with gas is quite the opposite… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312/7 "2012-05-09T14:58:58Z")
I found a clip online last night; basically just an overhead shot of the scene. They voiceover said that firefighters found a BBQ grill with ‘a substance’. Since the entire building was not evacuated, I’m guessing he may have used carbon monoxide instead of natural gas. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-gas-pipe/621312/8 "2012-05-09T15:29:44Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Fire Marshall told me no matter how fast I ran if it went so did I, too much gas to quickly. Nah, you just [ride](http://www.cracked.com/article_18862_6-deadly-injuries-you-think-youd-survive-thanks-to-movies.html) the explosion to safety. That guy doesn’t go to enough movies.