Re: Cellphones/gas

[Dorothy Tissair <dtissair@SNET.NET>]

 I believe that I hit on this last week, while the probability of any of these 
causing an electrical discharge in normal use is extremely minimal, it is possible 
if as someone else noted that a charge "might" be relesed if an electonic device 
were dropped and broken with the battery becoming disconected.  The oil companies 
have very "deep pockets" and are nearly ideal targets for law suits. (How many of 
your peers if called to jury duty do you really think would side with an oil 
company against a badly, burned, dead or disabled mother of three young children?)  
This is just a case of covering their corporate behinds.  (The fire was the 
mother's fault, she dropped the cellphone).  Get it?
  "Anderson, Julie LHS-STAFF" <AndersonJ@ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU> wrote: I don't 
think issue is simply that they want people to pay attention while
fueling -- the actual wording (I looked this morning as I was getting gas)
says Cell Phones, Pagers, and Personal Electronic Devices could cause an
electrical discharge which could be dangerous.

So I wonder, too -- if it's an urban legend, why did the gas companies buy
into it and have posted signs for people not to use them?

Julie Anderson, Librarian
Liberty High School 425-837-4901
Renton, WA 98059
andersonj@issaquah.wednet.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Julia Steger [mailto:spanutr@CFW.COM]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:52 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: GEN:Cellphones/gas

Maybe the warning is there because people should not try to talk and fill
their tanks at the same time.
Julia Steger, Librarian, Clifton Middle School, Covington VA
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Dorothy Tissair, M.S., M.L.S.

Library Media Specialist

Old Saybrook, CT

dtissair@snet.net

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