At 08:32 PM 2/26/03, Carole Bierwiler wrote:
>I was sent a forwarded e-mail today which warned that using a cell phone
>while filling your car up with gas can cause explosions and that Shell had
>warned customers not to even place a cell phone on the trunk of the car while
>fueling as this had happened to someone recently. I actually did not read the
>entire message as I thought it sounded ludicrous. I did check an urban legend
>website and found nothing there, so now I am wondering whether or not what I
>read could have been true. Does anyone know?
This was on an airplane list recently. The version that was on there was
determined to be an urban legend. Since it is fairly new, it may not be
showing up on all of the urban legend sites yet.
David Lininger, kb0zke
LMS, Hickory County R-1 Schools
Urbana, MO 65767
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