cell phones at gas stations (shakes head)
i've told 2 people this week that you're not supposed to use your cell phones at a gas station. one arogant "businessman" looked at me ike i was crazy, muttered something. i then called him an asshole after i told him "fine blow the place up" or something to effect
you aren't even supposed to have your phone turned on at a gas station!
you aren't even supposed to have your phone turned on at a gas station!
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If someone walked up to me and started ragging on me for using my cell phone, I'd probably mumble a "whatever" and keep talking too. If he then told me to blow the place up called me an asshole, I'd grab him and throw his ignorant ass to the ground.
And in this case, that would be you I guess.
1) Lithium Ion batteries run a nominal 3.7V. This is not enough to leap across anything. Fark, it's completely pathetic in terms of voltage.
2) EL backlights and CCDs do have high voltage inverter/transformers, but in this case the current is extremely low and there's not really enough juice to ignite anything.
3) Your car battery is 12V
4) The flourescent lights at most gas stations push more high voltage current that anything in your car, unless you cart tesla coils around with you.
Phone away. Most people out there who make this stuff up are ignorant. If you told me "fine, blow the place up." I'd tear off your head, shit down your neck, and then tell you in 4 reasons why you're an idiot.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp
Originally posted by ipodandimac
i'll refer you to an episode of "myth busters" regarding the cell phone gas thing....
I saw that show! The last show I saw they got drunk to see if they could beat the breathalizer test. This myth was broken.
I don't think I'd go around bothering people pumping gas unless they're smoking a cig. Give all gas pumpers a break man. Cell phones are safe - except for that brain tumor thingy.
be sure to ground yourself before touching the pumping hose in your tank.
IT's not cell phones. If you get out of your car without first discharging the static built up from wiggling in your seat...
bzzzt... the charge will ignite gas vapours from the tank when you touch the handle of the pump.
Just touch the roof of your car or the door before you take the pump out.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
Score one for Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp
Good grief. The original "report" came from the same place as that myth of that kid who died by sticking a tire inflator at a gas station in his ass, dropping in a few quarters, and then subsequently exploding.
"Hello? ... Yeah it's me ... Hold on, let me put my handset up against this guy's chest ... okay can you hear me now?" *bzzz*
Originally posted by Scott
The only benefit that i can tell is not having to deal with a-holes on their cell phones.
That's as good a reason as any, right?
Isn't there also the potential for cell phones to mess up telemetry signals (vital signs coming from units on each patient -- esp. impt in emergency/trauma areas)? Or is this really also a myth?
for those of you who dont know... cell phones are like radios, they transmit and receive radio waves on frequencies regulated by the FCC (in the US). When you are working around sensitive electronic equipment (like in a hospital) it is not advantageous to be generating radio waves in the area... you did not make the equipment and so have no idea how it works, but somebody's life may depend on it functioning properly.
As for the cell phones at gas stations, Im not advocating you live in fear all your lives, but do you really want to be the guy that blows up a gas station because you were talking on a cell phone. Better safe than sorry I think. I dont know whether static discharge can ignite gasoline vapours or not but that was the reason I was given too.
And certainly dont use your radio (cellphone) in a hospital. M'kay.