Rhino
05-05-2008, 10:39 AM
Gas thieves use cigarette lighter at the wrong time
GRAND JUNCTION - The sheriff's office says two men trying to steal gas from a boat instead started a fire.
...Cody Sellards and Timothy Long tried to steal gas from Hank Ibarra's boat...
"They were looking inside the gas can to see how much room, or how full the gas can was of gas,"..."They looked into it with a cigarette lighter and the fumes caught on fire."
"It was pretty exciting," Ibarra said. "About 3:15, the neighbors called, my wife answered the phone … Of course I got woke up and she said, 'The boat's on fire.'"....http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=91078
GRAND JUNCTION - The sheriff's office says two men trying to steal gas from a boat instead started a fire.
...Cody Sellards and Timothy Long tried to steal gas from Hank Ibarra's boat...
"They were looking inside the gas can to see how much room, or how full the gas can was of gas,"..."They looked into it with a cigarette lighter and the fumes caught on fire."
"It was pretty exciting," Ibarra said. "About 3:15, the neighbors called, my wife answered the phone … Of course I got woke up and she said, 'The boat's on fire.'"....http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=91078