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corrosiverob:
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Friend of mine lost his artic because of a fag end in the air intake... not a myth at all..... problem was he was smoking it .... he flicked it out of the window and the air intake sucked it in.
if he had not seen the smoke from the air intake it could of been a lot worse but the truck was written off
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TBH I have been unable to find any varified stories on the net. Just "I know a m8 who ....." type stories. Just dosn't seem to make the papers for some reason.
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HMMMMM if the www does not have cases it must be false? is that what you are saying??
corrosiverob:
Google is your friend
http://www.cigarettelitter.org/index.asp?PageName=Fires
www.esa.act.gov.au/.../bushfires_in_the_bush_capital/january_2003_fires/daily_summary_18_october_2005.doc
Bob696:
--- Quote from: "corrosiverob" ---
--- Quote from: "Bob696" ---
--- Quote from: "corrosiverob" ---
Friend of mine lost his artic because of a fag end in the air intake... not a myth at all..... problem was he was smoking it .... he flicked it out of the window and the air intake sucked it in.
if he had not seen the smoke from the air intake it could of been a lot worse but the truck was written off
--- End quote ---
TBH I have been unable to find any varified stories on the net. Just "I know a m8 who ....." type stories. Just dosn't seem to make the papers for some reason.
--- End quote ---
HMMMMM if the www does not have cases it must be false? is that what you are saying??
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No. I am saying I cant read every newspaper in the world but I can search the internet and most newspaper have an online version.
Regarding the first link. Mont Blanc tunnel has already been covered and the other quote is about an apartment fire. (I would also not take a 'story' from a plainly biased site as true)
The second link is an australian site that wont open for me but from the link text appears to be about bushfires.
As I say as there are no (or at least so few stories they can't be found easly) varified stories it is more than likely it is an urban myth, or at most an extremly rare occurance, for cig ends to set fire to airfilters.
Thrasher:
A ciggy butt into a snorkel type affair (like lorries have) with a paper filter, air being drawn at a great rate over the glowing ember ... I can see that would work.
Flames into air intake and er .... ouch? Or worse .. ash into engine .. yuck.
graham:
I bet the guy who started this thread wished he'd kept his key board shut, like anything on the web you don't know who your conversing with.
It may be a case that its something he would like to do and just showing a bit of bravado, if it was for real it was a foolish act.
We all get wound up and have pet hates chill its not the end of the world.
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