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0 pointspixl973mo ago0 comments

In Texas about a decade ago there was a criminal enterprise out of Houston that was putting swimmers on gas station pumps all over the state. Little towns, big towns, country gas stations. My now wife got hit that way.

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happyopossum3mo ago

Swimming at a gas station pump would be uncomfortably lethal.

dghlsakjg3mo ago

I wonder how well you would have to be able to swim to overcome the density/buoyancy difference if swimming in a pool of gasoline?

rationalist3mo ago

It depends how long you can hold your breath. I imagine many people would be overwhelmed by the fumes before they got very far.

swiftcoder3mo ago

It's a pretty drastic density difference. I think an Olympic swimmer would have a hard time staying above the surface.

pixl97OP3mo ago

Ah, 12 hours later I log back in to see skimmers got autocorrected to swimmers.

bregma3mo ago

Gasoline fight!

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