Hope they didn't polute the gene pool before they blew themselves up. They shouldn't be allowed to breed.

They must have come from the EAST side of the Sabine River, I'm just wondering which Bayou?

They almost received the Darwin award. I am glad I am not addicted to anything that I would have to urge to risk my life for it.

like oil

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! idiots.

Hmmm...at 3:00 AM and on a catwalk over the tanks?

I think I know what they were smoking.

Apparently no one told them that nearly-empty petroleum tanks are usually more prone to large explosions than full ones are.

Stupid is as stupid does.

"Think it'll ignite if I drop this cig butt in there?" "Let's find out..."

When I was a paramedic, we had an unofficial diagnosis of "Too Stupid to Live". People never cease to amaze me.

@ trust, LOL. "hold my beer and watch this!"

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@ Summs, "most" Texans (like me) are neither bigoted nor incompetent. Moreover, we know how to spell "bigotry."

Whats next, how about a fad of wearing nothing but salmon underwear while hunting Grizzley?

Or maybe instead of the running of the bulls, lets try the running of the automobiles on the interstate?

@ Harley Mike: That would be Bayou Texas.

ya i had to spellcheck maitenece and possess, i missed the bigotry

maybe because im not used to seeing it by my peoples name that often

maitenance dammit

im a math and science guy

Once again fine editing (proofing) on MSNBC's part. They really need to step up their game. Every article I have read recently has had problems.

Summs100, I think you mean 'maintenance.' I'm a math and science woman, but I still try to spell correctly. :-)

Sorry, I don't mean to laugh but damn! Did the ghost of Barney Fife take up smoking? Were the guy and girl too stupid, that they never learned to read?

Ka Boom!!!!!!

This is just more proof that sometimes the defective sperm finds the egg first!

Is summs100 related to the victims? When you blame the spell checker 3 times and you still screw up.

I'm thinking summs100 is the guy victim's brother who goes by the name Bubba (the smart one).

it's a coverup! let's blame it on the smokers.

Well, well...looks like the indoctrinated idiots from the "progressive" left have shown up; they can't spell, they hate the South and especially Texas...
But then, we are reading this on NBC News, so it should be no suprise.

Nonetheless, what are two "trespassers" doing on a catwalk at 3 A.M. "smoking cigarettes"? (Consider that these facilities are PLASTERED with NO SMOKING signs all over the place....)

I would look at these two real hard...(I smell a felony...)
AND, we get to look forward to paying their medical bills...ain't that a hoot.

Well, these two idiots will have to live with the scars for the rest of their life and every time they look in the mirror, they'll have to face the reality that their idiocy was what gave them those scars.

Yo man... Got a light? ROTFL!!!

CaeRaven, the worst part about it is they will probably sue the crap out of someone for not stopping them and win.

Looks like we have the next winners of the Darwin award...

I'm just curious if the fire marshal falls for a stupid explanation like that.

The vapors/fumes will get you every time, the liquids are not as volatile. Just don't do at home what we did as kids with old auto gasoline tanks and cans of gasoline!

Is it just me or do the residents of Texas regularly do something completely assanine and blow somebody up,or pull a trailer hauling wounded vets into the path of an oncoming train, or have a 150 car pile up simply because they are too stupid to drive slowly and with extreme caution in inclement weather.All that inbreeding has apparently taken its toll.

@Kyengr

thanks for ading pertinant info, thats what all enginerrs do latly,

thats why we enjoy the frutes of fracking,

thanks agian for bieng scarded to say somthing usffull,

get it

Doesn't the company deserve to share some of the blame? Security must have been near nonexistent to allow two people that had no business on the property access to the catwalk. Maybe they were in the break room polishing their AR-15's.

This should summs it up. Good Christ man, BUY A DICTIONARY!

"Harley Mike", we all know there are no intelligent people west of the Sabine River. After all they voted for Tricky Rick numerous times. Smoking on top of oil tanks is exactly what those "intelligent Texans" think as being tuff. No wonder Texas is in the shape it's in. I moved out of that state in 1977, the job market around Baytown was so illegal yet nothing was being done about it. There was an "unspoken rule" not to hire someone that had a job at another company. I tried to change jobs for 2 years and no one would hire me, I was wondering what I had done wrong. I quit my job at Dixie Chemical outside Bayport Texas, we decided to move to Seattle. In the 4 days I resigned my position at Dixie I was called by Phillips Petroleum wanting to know if I wanted the job I had applied for 3 months earlier. I told them that I was moving and they told me that they could not hire me before because of "their agreement with other chemical company's". I started work with Monsanto in Seattle as soon as I got up there. The only use for Texas is to hold the overflow from Florida, you know the totally incoherent ignorant ones.

If these two idiots had hand guns, they could have caused destruction like that anywhere. They could have blown up a gas station, or a tanker truck. That scene in the movie Thelma and Louise should have been a wake up call to America showing everyone how hand guns needed to be banned immediately. You could be driving in your car and someone could fire a hand gun at you and blow your car up.

Security must have been near nonexistent to allow two people that had no business on the property access to the catwalk. Maybe they were in the break room polishing their AR-15's.

Maybe they shouldn't have AR-15's. Those are weapons of war and there is no place for them in society. Private security workers should just stick to carrying cans of wasp and hornet spray with them. That stuff will stop anything without blowing any vehicles up or shooting anybody.

please, maybe when your driving, instead of shooting you with a "Hand Gun" some guy will just intentionally slam into your car with his. I mean it happened last week. Some ticked off man slammed his car into 15 others killing two. You make NO sense at all.

A remake of "Up In Smoke"?

Steamie, i mispelled 1 word twice, the mispelled paragraph was a joke

get it

Harley Mike -They must have come from the EAST side of the Sabine River, I'm just wondering which Bayou?

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In THIS case, I believe it would be the "Blew Bayou".....

Hey Summs100, I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said. I just found it funny that you mistyped the same word in 3 different posts.

ed-287,

As long as your genes are in the pool, mankind's future will be that much more diminished.

If you had actually read the article it stated "... the victims were believed to be trespassing and smoking...". The operative word here is BELIEVED not CONFIRMED. You breeze-brained people are willing to jump to conclusions when smoking is concerned but never, ever alcohol abuse.

Like the guy cleaning car parts in with gasoline inside his car in cold weather while smoking. You just knew it would turn out badly.

Dumb as tumbleweeds....

I just gotta know why they would A: trespass in a crude oil farm and B: smoke over an Oil Tank? Granted they have no brains, but still....

Yep, what can I say? Stupid is as stupid does.

I just hope they both get a bill for how much damage they caused, as well as some jail time for what they did!

We should ban catwalks and fiberglass storage tanks, they might kill.

Drugs, alcohol, sex on the catwalk, followed by cigarette and fireworks, what a night!

Suicide pact?

Terrorists seeking virgins?

I think one has to die to win the Darwin awards. These two should be studied.

They at least have qualified for dishonorable mention

gelbstoff

I think one has to die to win the Darwin awards.

Nope, just injured enough to prevent any copulations... These so far deserve considerations.

Ken Trout has it right. I'm just wondering if there's a Darwin Award Hall of Fame for those who make their greatest possible contribution to the gene pool, removing themselves from it, in a most astonishingly stupid and reckless manner.

Injured on there property. I see a LAWSUIT coming.

I bet someone can trespass on your property without being noticed. So if they trip and fall, they can sue the crap out of you?

Yeah, they can. I live on lake front Prop. that is fully fenced and the fence is well within the property boundries. Two kids, not from the neighborhood hurt themselves fishing from my beach.

It cost me $12,000.

I now have bougainvillea growing on all the fences.

i admit that sucks, but there are two sides to that coin

im not sure what the answer is, but i think they have to prove negligece in some way

not knowing your story i bet there was some circumstance that made it possible to prove (negligence)

again, thats not an excuse but we have that safegaurd for a reason

I'm sure there were "NO SMOKING" signs. Of course, the assumptions there are that 1) the idiots could read and 2) they wouldn't be where they had no right to be after dark when they couldn't see the signs. Guess both of those assumptions are in question now.

Summs - all it takes is a greedy lawyer with no scruples filing suit against you on behalf of the trespassers. Even if you win a case against a trespasser, you're still out the cost of a lawyer to defend you against the idiot trespasser. Sometimes it seems that the law is made to protect the criminal and not the victim.

As for the storage tanks in this story...I know of locations where the access is over a cattle guard and nothing else. Putting a gate or chain up sometimes creates a safety hazard for trucks that move in or out of the area where the tanks are at.

Personally, I think an idiot who sues and loses should have to pay court costs and restitution for property damage. They wouldn't want me on the jury.

I'm sure drug testing is in order and when these morons unfortunately test positive for the joint they smoked last month, they will lose their jobs and the war on pot smokers will continue with dumbass comments you have all heard before........................

LEGALIZE IT!!!!

In my experience lawyers and judges don't want anybody who can think on a jury.

AvgJoe, not good enough. I've seen convenience stores with better security than what this place seems to have. I guess next they'll say that Obamacare forced them to downsize and lay off their entire security staff. If the righties had one solution for every thousand excuses, we might make some progress on the economy.

JustacleaningLady, yes I'm sorry they are injured too. But it was their own stupidity, being where they don't belong and smoking in an area where smoking isn't allowed.

That's like the idiot kid who recently walked into a open man hole cover because he/she (I don't remember) was texting and not paying attention to what they were doing.

Being Stupid isn't an excuse, and hopefully won't be a defense if they try suing for damages.

....or use their cell phones near a gas pump....

Have them put a picture on the cigarettes or a small video chip to show the Entire Explosion. That should get someone's attention.

If they would of walked that mile they probably would NOT of blown UP

Maybe they wanted to fly a mile for a Camel?

Not true, if we had banned idiots, Pres. Obama would never have been elected in the first place let alone reelected.

jeez ... the tea party is still upset they lost the election; party of 'no' just can't agree with anything

I am not a Democrat or a Republican (any more), but these fools are definitely idiots

Not if they die.

Latte Da

The "hot coffee in the lap" issue was not as stupid and simple as this case seems to be. McDees was previously court ordered to lower the temp of their coffee and officially warned twice with reprisals before the elderly lady was severely burned. The local McDees superheated their coffee to slow the rate at which their coffee was drank in order to save a few pennies. Sometimes being a cheap bastard costs you much more in the end...

I need to find out more about the law on this. It seems to me that, if the owner had maybe 1 sign on the main road to his property warning those around that they were tresspassing, and no fence, then he might be liable for creating a potentially hazardous situation, and could be sued pursuant to claims of people being injured on his property.

If, on the other hand, he had a deterrent fence around the whole thing, with adequate signage, in good repair, then he may be able to get the injury suit dismissed and countersue for tresspassing and destruction of property. Or, maybe he won't get that lawsuit dismissed, but could countersue anyway?

Dammit, I need a lawyer...

Janstince- generally, children are more protected in trespass cases when there is an "attractive nuisance" on the property (something that a reasonable person would know a brat may climb/jump on etc..) or if the landowner is aware that children frequently trespass yet the landowner does nothing to prevent it.

This case involves adults who climbed up to a catwalk over the oil containers. Assuming that the property is likely surrounded by a fence, has "no trespassing" signs on it, and involves adults that should be able to appreciate the danger of what they did...it is doubtful that they will be able to recover money. Don't believe the hyped "cases" that people will claim exist- like a theif stealing wire from an abandoned missle silo sues the Gov't for being electrocuted- those cases do not exist. Same with the McDonald's hot coffee case- what really happened is much different than what McDonald's PR firm put out into the media.

JXC -

I know about the whole children thing. People with a swimming pool get reamed on the insurance because it is considered attractive to kids, and if a kid gets injured around their pool, they have to pay big time, even with fences up and everything.

I know there isn't a thief that sued the govt for getting electrocuted while stealing wire. I also know that the McDonald's case wasn't nearly as cut and dry a miscarriage of justice as most people like to pretend.

The law allows for some strange things. People can put themselves in ridiculously dangerous situations, and if they're on somebody else's property, that person can be held liable well beyond the bounds of what most would call common sense.

You never get the correct news from MSNDC the firt time around. Maybe Friday they will have a better picture of what really happened.

The fire bugs will no doubt sue owner and get nice settlement; which owner will gladly pay with a part of that nice fat insurance payout... They love it when a plan comes together...

LT you don't live anyplace near oil and gas production, do you. All the tanks are vented. Anyone with an IQ over a small appliance light bulb knows you don't walk into a pad site with 3-4 gas wells producing with a cig burning. You can hear the gas flowing when you get close.

Wonder how far they flew when the rocket ignited??

scurvy dog, and you never have a fuel storage or production facility without security personnel on the grounds, unless you strive to reach the top of that Darwin Awards list.

Steve, you can badmouth MSNBC all you want, but how many times do you ever see Fox post a breaking news story? At least they care enough to try to inform the people.

Security guards usually do a walk through where they go through the facility and sometimes check in on certain time clocks set up at different intervals. I don't know how big this facility is, but the security guard could have been at a different check point at the time they came onto the catwalk. Unless there are cameras set up all over the place and the guards just check out using those.

There is no substitute for on the ground, walking rounds. Even if you have 200 cameras and two or three officers monitoring those, you still need to have a person walking the grounds at some point or you're sure to miss something.

You can fix stupid, but the price for fixing stupid is way too much time in prison.

Good thought Al. I wonder if this experience will make either of them quit smoking.

The way that reads; you quit posting hilarious posts 3 years ago. The folks that did the same here should have quit that disgusting habit while they were ahead?

It is the NRA on high-test.

Uh, don't blow your brains out, or yourself up trying to figure that dumb ass question out. OK?

You may now resume masturbating furiously. Or did you have to stop to type that at all?

stick man right

Dude summs100, aren't you the pathetic slug who uses the spell checker and still posts incorrectly spelled word. D'oh. What a nimrod!

i could care less about spelling

i care about fracking, slave labor, using less oil, saving the environment

texans dont, i detest them dude

One of the ways that you could do something about those things that you detest so inherently and emphatically would be to communicate your viewpoint clearly and concisely. If you don't think them through well enough to punctuate and spell them correctly, you probably don't think them through well enough at any other point.

No Bull Mr Ed

I think they would need to know how to read before that!

Stupidity knows no bounds.

The fact is way too many people are taught not to believe ANYTHING the oil companies print or say, I bet they never do this again...