Whoops

[Limey Linda]

WASHINGTON – A boater in Stuart, Fl. reportedly pulled his center console up to the fuel dock last week and filled her up – pumping the gas into his fishing rod holder.

Distracted by a cell phone call, the boat’s owner mistakenly inserted the pump into the holder near the fuel fill and then proceeded to walk and talk on the dock as roughly 100 gallons of $4.39-a-gallon gasoline from the Finest Kind Marina filled the boat’s bilge, according to the story in the Orlando Sentinel’s Sailing Florida blog May 15.

The goof was noticed only when the bilge pumps activated, sending the fuel into the water, according to the blog. A marina employee said the small spill – roughly 15 gallons – was quickly cleaned.

The boat was towed from the facility, pulled from the water, pumped out and cleaned before returning to its slip the same day. The boat's owner was not named by the blog.

[prairie tuber]

Man that's so annoying - your already preoccupied with trying to get your cigarette lit with a dodgy bic lighter in one hand, while trying to fit the gas pump nozzle in the filler tube with the other hand, and then the cell phone starts ringing!

Sounds like someone just cheated the Darwin priciple.