Drunk & Stoned Teens Jump Up And Down On Oil Tank - Boom

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A crude oil storage tank exploded as two teens were jumping on it, hurling the youths 150 yards to their deaths, deputies said Monday.

The tank exploded Saturday night during a party in Routt National Forest, about 135 miles west of Denver, Rio Blanco County Undersheriff Michael Joos said.

Vapor from the 160 barrels of crude oil in the tank may have been forced out through a relief valve by the pressure of the teens jumping on the top, Joos said.

He said deputies were trying to determine whether a campfire or a cigarette lighter ignited the vapor. Some of the 18 people at the party had lit a campfire, Joos said, but he was not sure how close it was to the tank.

A dog also was killed but no other injuries were reported, Joos said.

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Coroner Randall Cochran said marijuana was found in both teens' bodies and each had a blood-alcohol level higher than the 0.08 percent legal limit for driving.

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Teenage boys. I sometimes wonder how I survived those years myself.

It sucks when somebody has to make an example of themselves like this--but it's generally stuff like this which gives us new ideas for safety. I'm not really sure how you engineer a protection for "drunken dumbass partying" but somebody will have to try.

When I was working on offshore oil rigs we were specifically required to wear "non-conducting" hard hats. I used to shudder to think about the lucky bastard who illustrated why that might be important. :scared:

Bummer about the dog.

"hurling the youths 150 yards" Dayum, that's quite an explosion.

400, 50, 100, 80, 230, 110, 90...

:eyes:

:beer:

:bounce:
:nuke:



:rofl:

:evilgrin: