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….the reason they are detatchable.
dammm..
In Oregon they don’t let you pump your own gas except at “card lots”, that is areal pain at a gas station with only one attendant!
I live in New Jersey same here.
Is this why you get the spoon with a mcflurry?
I find it slightly more concerning that it looks like the photos were taken from the driver’s side of a moving car. And there’s a series of them.
I find this relevant. XD
those cars have US State plates, you know.. we’re left hand drivers over here
Quick, someone get the hose.
*leads horse in*
Oh, damn
*wanders back out again*
Don’t bring me Hugh Laurie either!
*Stops in tracks*
*tries to work out how to counteract the effects of chloroform*
Smelling salts.
Don’t ask, I won’t tell.
Buuurrrrrb I got gas.
Pump Up the Voluuu… Petroleum!!
Don’t you mean the uose?
FIRST TIME FIRST OH MY GO-O-OD!
Victory!!!
Wow, not.
So very, very not.
Be gentle with him, Judy. It’s his first time.
Failure is a fact of life he’ll have to get used to.
It will be easier if the first time is painful.
*tries to look away*
*fails*
*cringe*
I seriously don’t understand how people manage to do this kind of thing. How do you miss this?!?!?
It’s ok. Don’t get so pumped up about it.
They must be pretty tanked up to forget something like this.
Probably too busy gassing to notice.
Then making a complete fuel of themselves.
It’s a Prius, not his fault he couldn’t stop
Hehehe!
ht tp://epicwinftw.com/2010/02/10/better-butter-sculpture/
Tankfully this has never happened to me.
Apparently you don’t get out enough. With the people out there in this world I am surprised this does not happen more often.
Actually it DOES happen a lot! Usually it’s the type of person who goes and sits in their car while filling up and forgets about it. That’s why they’re made to disconnect.
RHSC!
*squeeze*
We don’t get to see near enough of you anymore.
Having worked at a gas station at one time, its way more common than you would think
My dad’s done this.
Twice.
He doesn’t have a good explanation.
I witnessed something like this happening once while standing in line at a gas station. When I mentioned it, the clerk said, “Again? That’s the third time today!” She had the replacement “break-away” already behind the counter and ready to go.
in 20 years of driving in Michigan, I’ve NEVER seen somebody pull the hose off the pump like that.. I must not get invited to the “fun” side of town often enough.
Thank God they have the arrow and the word fail in the last picture!
I’d never have noticed his petrol cap was open otherwise.
I thought it was a snake attack until the last picture.
I’m tired of these motherf***in snakes in my motherf***in gas tank!
*jumps on desk*
Snakes?!?!?! Where?!?!?!
On your desk.
And by on, he meant in.
And by desk, he meant hair.
*cries*
Sorry, I thought it was a fashion statement… Very Medusa-chic.
Astoneishing.
Just don’t go losing your head, now.
I’m not sure if women consider it a compliment if you compare them to a mythological creature so ugly that everyone looking at her turns to stone. I might be wrong on this one, though.
I Hera you there Arthur!
Personally, it gives me the Hebe jeebies.
Oh, umm….you are. They do.
Zeusly?
Yeah, do I look like the kind of Gaia who would lie to you?
Not amuseing.
Sorry, sometimes charm is not one of my Ares of expertise.
Tethyis something you have to work on, mmmm. I Prometheus you, it’ll pay off!
Aww Hecate, why can’t we all just get along!
Awww, you scared her naughty Mushy!
*hands Ms B some Medusine*
That should clear right up with this.
Sorry, I made a mythtake. It won’t happen again.
*poke*
*tickle*
*giggle*
*squeeze*
*tickle*
*squickle*
Are you sad today, lil’ mush-meister?
No siree, I just wanted to wear something to match your dress!
Hey now, you were just looking out for me like you always do.
*supersduperqueeze*
*snork!*
Vipers. It had to be……vipers.
Oh, I forgot to post that yesterday: A couple of years ago I was driving on the Autobahn. No speed limit, clear blue sky, not many other cars around. I, driving a VW Polo, overtook a Viper that day. The guy drove 80 km/h. With a Viper. On the Autobahn.
And a stroke. In his brain.
Misunderstanding the rules do you think?
What’s the point in spending a ton of money on a fast car when all you do with it could easily – and more comfortably – be done with a Volvo?
*shrugs*
Humanity amazes me more and more each day.
*shakes head sadly*
*tsk-tsk*
Oh I loved the Autobahn… Drove a Porsche 220 km/h on that thing. Was awesome.
The Germans love it, too. Kinda a holy cow.
Could be plenty of reasons. Maybe very low on fuel and nursing it to the next filling station (they do have quite a hunger after all). Perhaps running on a space-saver spare tyre on the side you couldn’t see (they have “MAX 80KMH / 50MPH” printed on them, and really, in such a ferocious machine would you risk it?).
Perhaps running in a freshly rebuilt engine, even.
Who knows. But they were still legal – the minimum limit is 60k, after all.
Did used to enjoy blatting past so many people not making full use of their powerful machines when I had my old Polo with the stone-age 1043cc engine though
… even if it was with judicious use of welding the loud pedal to the firewall and living mainly in 3rd and 4th gear on hilly terrain. The sense of achievement when dispatching someone in a Volvo S5 who obviously didn’t have a clue about gearshifting was quite fulfilling in the middle of an otherwise tedious cross country trek.
These days, I’m either STILL stuck behind those same people (if I’m late and aiming for the 150k+ zone the Polo had no chance of reaching on the flat), or – thanks to the ludicrous price of fuel – one of those nodding along at 90k on the motorway with the trucks whilst commuting in my 1600cc 16v speed beast…. try not to get in the way, however.
(2 wheels is where it’s at for speed and economy, now)
How can you miss that in your rear view mirror? Or am I just a stupid european person not driving the ‘american way’? I mean WTF
Being on Europe’s roads every day I find it grotesque that you assume European drivers are attentive.
*snork*
Utahns too.
No, at the moment I’m not tanning. It’s snowing!
I went last night, in preparation of our upcoming vacation. I burned, bad
Oh, yeah.
Hawaii.
Thanks for reminding me.
*haz a sad*
So, what are your vaca plans? You said you were looking for something.
Hiding in your suitcase.
The only two suggestions I didn’t get a “no” on were (1) a cruise, or (2) another trip to New Orleans. We’ve been there before, but thought it would be nice to go and see what it looks like in the daylight through clear eyes.
Bummer. It would have been fun to have a Hawaii meet.
I know! Wouldn’t it?
It wasn’t the company he was saying “no” to, it was Hawaii. He said, “I don’t want to go to Hawaii this year.” I focused on the term, “..this year.” Which suggests to me that he wants to go someday.
*shakes fist at Andrew*
No, don’t. I really didn’t give him many suggestions. My others were: Machu Picchu, South Africa (per Granny’s suggestion) and Cleveland.
Ok, ne’mind then.
S Africa is awesome, you may need to push on that one!
I learned from tanning for my wedding last year to always underestimate the time needed at first. Until you are comfortable how the tanning machine works.
It was my third visit! And I hadn’t had a problem the other two times. And it was in a lower burn-rays bed.
*pouts*
Hehe, reminds me of when we were tanning for the wedding. My wife thought taking an antibotic would help so we would not break out in acne before the wedding, but we fail to realize the full effects that taking an antibotic would have on tanning.
Luckly, I felt the burn coming before it got to bad.
*remembers malaria tablets & African sunshine*
*feels very sorry for Jules*
What is this “tanning” you speak of?
I’m normally not someone who visits the tanning beds, but I don’t want to burn on my vacation, so I’m trying to get a base down before I go. So, now I’ll just burn before I go.
Happened to me quite often when I was preparing for summer in the park.
“Utahn”?
I always thought that was how Bostonians turned around on the highway….
*flees!*
They make a utahn in their cahs?
The father of a friend managed to do that the other day. He destroyed the whole fuel pump…
Only way I can think of that will cause the whole fuel pump to get destroyed by a simple drive away would be that the pump doesn’t have a hose break-away or the hose break-away is total crap.
I remember back in the 50′s people used to drag entire gas stations down the interstate. Praise the Lawd for those break-aways!
Yes, it was long ago, probably the 70s.
You remember the 50s, lil’ mush-mush?
Ahh yes, my second favorite decade after the 20′s.
1820s?
Yeah, aka the golden age for mushrooms.
Well, I KNOW you gotta be fresher than that. Mushies go bad after awhile…
True, but goin’ bad never felt this good.
I’m guessing your a late 20s- early 30s-aged mushy…
Purdy close!
How close am I?
Guess a number.
26
30
*buzzz*
Okay folks, that sound means you’ve all overbid. We’re going to erase the bids and try this again…
19
Rats!
22?
Actual retail value of this mushy…
25!
*jumps up and down excitedly*
*waves hands in air*
*comes up on stage*
*kisses the mushy’s cap*
*blushes*
Okay, tell her what we have for her!
It’s a new Carrrr!!!
This top of the line Toyota Prius comes fully equipped with anti-lock brakes, front and side airbags, elebenty cup holders, a Lo-Jack poice-tracking anti-theft system and a permanently affixed gas pump!
Can I have cash instead?
Sure!
*hands LGBee a fiver*
Get yourself something nice.
*takes fiver*
*tucks in br … safe place*
Would you care to guess mine?
Wellll sure, since you offered.
I must say though, if I didn’t know you had a daughter I would’ve guessed 28-30ish. Taking that information into account, I would have to say…
35..?
Keep going…
How long did you lurk before you started commenting here, lil’ mush man?
How old do I look?
*poses*
40.
I lurked for a couple of fails and realized people weren’t really commenting on the fail so much as they were doing fun pun-runs and engaging in witty banter, so I jumped in.
You’re getting warmer …
Wow, only a couple of fails? That’s pretty gutsy.
LGB – 42
LeiLei – 34
Yeah, well everyone was so nice from the get-go. I felt right at home!
DING-DING-DING!
On the nosey!
Another *smoochonacap* for dat!
I will never wash this cap again!
Hey! That’s my Gravatar’s Job! *pouts*
BTW…
Anyway, I’m so fresh, nobody would have a blind chance.
Yep!
Well hey, what say “Ferme la Bouche” more than Bob Barker pointing at you. (I have effectively integrated his name into my swearword repertoire.)
reaches for bukkit…
Not sure how many of you worked at gas stations before but when I worked at a gas station this generally happen at least 3 times a week, and most of the time I’m the one running after the car to stop the driver from driving off to get the hose back so I can re-attach it back to the pump. And believe me, it’s a pain the the butt to connect the hose back up.
Have you had that checked by a doctor?
It is absolutely normal that it hurts a little when you connect the hose to your anus. Nothing to worry.
The gas is a little hit and miss though.
If you connect the hose to your anus’ ring system and have someone drive the car around a roundabout, does that mean the moon is orbiting?
Also, when the hose disconnects, is there a lunar wind?
Queef?
Barf.
Clean up on aisle three!
Don’t look at me!
*looks away from Leila*
*tries to look away, but can’t*
What can I say, I’m a sucker for a woman in a red… T-shirt.
Aaaaw, come here you little blue mushy!
*squeeze*
*squishysqueeze*
I thought we had agreed not to talk about that anymore?
Sorry!
I was influenced by Granny this morning.
He can be quite the bad influence.
Not our granny. No. You are mistaken.
That depends on your definition of ‘bad’.
And your interpretation of “influence.”
Bloggy must like fruit. Ok, k@, I’m trying to show you the pretty, almost a pity to eat, fruit arrangement. But it’s been eaten three times. The hubby got mine at ediblearrangments. Click on the arrangements tab to see the prettys.
*crosses fingers*
*hopes it posts this time*
Gah! Add a .com after ediblearrangements. And spell arrangements right.
*goes back to bed*
And they do have a UK site!
*dribbles*
They advertise those around here. We always wonder how they stay fresh-looking.
Wood varnish?
We were thinking liquid cellophane.
*shrugs*
Tasted fine to me.
The site says there are no preservatives, and that they recommend eating immediately. So, they probably don’t stay fresh looking for long.
Do you think people wash their hands when they cut and prepare the fruit.
HeeHee!!!
Now, why would you say something like that?
Yeah, if you’re gonna gross her out, you should have done it before they ate the fruit! Now it’s too late….
We received one at our office and it piqued my curiosity. They make them the day of delivery, and rely on a large number of locations.
There’s a gal in my office who was getting one of those arrangements at least once a week. Needless to day we were all jealous…but she shared the yummy goodness!
Why judy ?
ZOMG!!! FRUIT!!!!!!!!
*salivates on everyone*
Dammit! While I was holding a Banjo and everything!
Woman driver?
Of course!
Leila, don’t encourage him. Please.
Yes ma’am.
You need to encourage your BOB?
You would usually if the juice is running out.
Yeah, we all know that men NEVER do anything stupid. Like hammering a nail into your own head – that was never done befo… Hmmm. Hold my beer and watch this!
STOP THAT
*clicky
Who, oh why did you post that?
*shudders*
*chokes*
*coughs up BOB*
Wha…?
I wondered what happened to that!
Glad to have been of assistance!
Hey! At least men do something stupid they do it on purpose!
And boy, do we do stupid things.
OK, so you’re allergic to rear-view mirrors, and don’t see the hose. Or the sparks. How do you not hear the scraping noise?
I was listening to some loud raggae music on sirius.
I had my fingers in my ears.
I was making a grilled cheese sandwich.
The really gooey kind?
*leans in*
*examines cornea*
Mhmm
*examines retina*
Mhm
*examines pupil*
Mhm mhm, everything seems to be in good shape here. By the way, sorry about the coffee breath.
Am I gonna live Doc? Just give it to me straight.
Oh, don’t be silly. I’m not a Doctor… Anyway, shall we continue with the examination. I’m working my way down.
Uh, yeah, mushy, right. Sandwich. Cheese.
No flippin’ coins going on here.
Fine. But BOB can only do so much, and one day you’re going to realize that.
Is Felipe Massa working at Microsoft now?
So… is that the car of the person who created Clippy*? ^^
(* Fun fact: Actually that would be Bill Gates’ wife. ^^)
First one is allowed to get away with it!
*snork!*
*hands k@ “Comment of the Day” award*
*throws confetti*
*wiggledances*
*click*
For posterity.
Whose posterior?
*Waggles*
woman!
*looks @ Ms B*
*places hand on mouth*
Exactly what I was thinking, bombe! You read my mind!
♪ Woman … I can hardly express ♫
♫ My mixed emotion at my thoughtlessness ♪
♫She’s a woman
You know what I mean♫
♫You better listen
Listen to me♫
♫She’s gonna set you freeeee♫
HAS TO BE A WOMAN.
Never look back
ZA, are you on today? I wated to tell you what it was that had me thinking of you. My boyfriend is working on a film for Chiller’s “Dare to Direct” contest. It involves zombies. Hey, do you have a Face book, I’d love to friend you.
hello fail peeps! I managed to survive the blizzard yesterday. yeah!! They did close my building at 12:00 so I didn’t have to go in! yipee! but the roads were still bad today when I had to get here.
Woman driver win?
yeah sure.. it’s not even the same car..
fail.
Yep. Funny how so many oh-so-superior guys commented here without noticing that.
i saw the same thing…clearly a prius on top and a cadillac on the bottom series
Let’s just hope the gas station clerk got their license plates, so they can get a nifty charge to replace the hose quick connect (the safety feature preventing accidents like this from spewing gas on the ground), hose length, and handle.
I know its seventy five dollars to replace the connector, if you left the handle and hose with the store.
How? I worked at such places… this would happen 2-3 times a year; thankfully that is a pretty good percentage of fail.
Non-paying drive-offs are quite a big problem at stations where you don’t pre-pay for every single fill, so unless they have that policy they’d be dumb not to have some kind of 24/7 full-coverage camera system with ANPL/ALPL… and maybe a set of those mini traffic lights linked to a set of tyre-spikes at the exit to stop anyone making off either with stolen gas or a pump?
Mind you a pre pay system also makes this kind of incident far more likely just because there aren’t the further unavoidable visual checks by both driver and cashier when you’ve finished. Swings and roundabouts.
The driver forgot to put the nozzle back into the gas pump after use.
(Petrol spills out relentlessly back at the station – total fire hazard alert)
does anybody else realize that the top photo and the series are TWO DIFFERENT CARS. The top is a TOYOTA PRIUS and the series is of a CADILLAC
“WE DON’T PUMP OUR GAS, WE PUMP OUR FISTS!”
(this fail is yet another example of why Jersey Shore is the downfall of our society…)
That top one with the Toyota happend last week where I work (Microsoft). And they say they hire only the brightest. Quite the talk that day… hehe
Um… isn’t taking photos while driving also considered a fail … ???
Could quite easily be the passenger, particularly as it’s zoomed in too far to give us any clues on the photographer’s seating position.
Am I thick for totally not understanding how someone capable of making such a complete hash of filling their car can manage to get a license, or even be allowed to apply for one by their carer? (Or not have it revoked by their doctor as their condition deterioates…)
Or is it some kind of strange USA thing where you allow so many people with this level of mental prowess onto the roads that this is common? I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of it happening over this side of the pond – never seen a news report about it, the attendants sure don’t have a rack of spares ready to go, and our hose connections seem to be pretty damn solid (as you’d hope for when they pass highly volatile fluid at a rate of half a gallon a second through a relatively small bore) rather than of a kind that allow them to “pop off”. I don’t like making that kind of statement because people should surely be roughly as smart worldwide… but… come on. There aren’t even a great enough number of pics on the interwebs showing this happening in the eurozone for them to have imprinted on my conciousness. America, yes… and strangely Korea as well have a few. But not here.
It’s like going for a leak and not putting your respective junk back how it should be.
Exit car, unlock and open filler cap, pick up correct hose for your clearly-marked grade and put in filler; if it’s pay-at-pump, do the thing with your card, if it’s pay-at-window either wait for the cashier to activate your pump or go pre-pay/swipe (if that’s required); squeeze handle for a few seconds to a couple of minutes depending how much you want (optional: wait for the clunk signifying it’s full); remove from filler hole, knock off the drips, replace in holster, close & lock filler cap; gawp at the amount of money you’ve just poured into your vehicle; then (finish) pay[ing] for what you took, maybe grab a drink from the little shop, re-enter car and drive off.
At what stage of mental breakdown do you switch from “releasing the squeezy bit of the handle you’re holding, then putting it back where you got it”, to “releasing the squeezy bit and driving straight off”? Additionally, if you’re then going over to the cashier, ignoring them yelling at you to remove the hose instead of taking your money? If people that confused are dense enough on our highways to make it a “3 times a day” occurrence at any given station I think I’ll take the jetpack from now on rather than risking the road or sidewalk.
Mind you, having said aaaaaaaaaallll that… I work in support and encounter the electrical equivalent of this quite often. So, just maybe… :-/
(crap, and I left the jetpack at home today as well)
I think in the USA they can lock the pump off so that petrol keeps flowing without them holding onto the trigger.
I think that’s a big mistake, given how common this kind of fail seems to be.
Half a gallon a second? Wow! It takes me much longer than 7 seconds to fill up my tank. Are you sure you have correct numbers?
the cars are different. the parked one is a toyota, the driving ones are a chrysler, i believe. failblog fail FAIL
Why failblog fail? Multiple images, showing multiple fails of a common theme. No-one said all the pictures have to be of the same car, just the same fail.
blonde
The Prius driver just says to me “I’m a PC and Windows 7 was my idea”…
Well the first one is a Toyota, he/she couldn’t help it.
im guessing that the accelerator got stuck at the gas station lol
what officer i’m parked within the lines????
notice how the cars are not the same.
Believability FAIL!!!
Stupid, that’s why the two segments of pictures are separated; you’re oblivious.
or it gets the hose again.
80 % that driver was woman!!
TO THE IDIOT MOBILE! Da na na na na n an ana anana ananan anaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooh NOOOOOOOOOOOOO im getting HIIIIIIIIIIIGH AGAAAAIIIN!!!!!