• EleventhHour
    link
    1814 hours ago

    It probably goes without saying that a man carrying a torch and a flare gun would smell like fuel.

    • walden
      link
      fedilink
      513 hours ago

      It depends. Blow torches are odorless unless the canister is leaking. Flare guns don’t smell like anything unless they’ve been recently discharged, and even then it’s probably not a strong odor.

        • walden
          link
          fedilink
          712 hours ago

          The news isn’t known for getting details correct. I guess it could have been a tiki torch, or an Olympic torch, though.

        • Drusas
          link
          fedilink
          111 hours ago

          That is typically what Americans are referring to if they just say “torch”. Very much unlike the Brits.

          • EleventhHour
            link
            -1
            edit-2
            10 hours ago

            This is a torch. Sheesh… Get a dictionary.

            If they had meant blowtorch, they would’ve said “blowtorch”. Why does everyone here have a pathological obsession with arguing meaningless bullshit?

            • @Dashi
              link
              29 hours ago

              Fun fact, that torch wouldn’t smell like fuel. Reason being is fuel is an accelerant, traditionally those torches have pitch, fat or some other long burning substance. Those don’t smell like fuel other than the VERY small amount of accelerant to get them initially lit.

              Source: self proclaimed pyro.

              • EleventhHour
                link
                19 hours ago

                Pitch and fat are both fuel. Nobody in the article specified what sort of fuel that was.

                • @Dashi
                  link
                  1
                  edit-2
                  7 hours ago

                  Anything is fuel if you try hard enough. I melted down an aluminum boat in a bonfire last fall. But pitch, fat and aluminum while burnable/melt able do not smell like “fuel” as the average person would associate them.

                  Fun fact fat was used in early soaps made to smell “good”.

                  Ps. This isn’t arguing with you, it’s having a conversation.

            • Drusas
              link
              fedilink
              210 hours ago

              Yeah, that’s not what a torch is in modern day unless you’re in a video game or fantasy novel.

              • EleventhHour
                link
                19 hours ago

                So you’re one of the people with a pathological need to argue because you just can’t admit that you’re wrong.

                People who know you must think you are exhausting.