• Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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    7 days ago

    You’re thinking too literally here.

    Let me rephrase for you, “they are lucky it was only something gross and not something flammable”

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      Diesel fuel and roofing tar will leave irremovable stains and smells on anything it touches, and then if you’re stupid enough to try and wash it off it’ll ruin your washing machine too. The fact that it could be lit on fire is just for the fear factor, which is actually more useful for the movement if it’s never actually followed through on.

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        and then if you’re stupid enough to try and wash it off it’ll ruin your washing machine too

        Do you mean because of the smell? Or does it ruin your washing machine mechanically?

        There really is nothing to counter Diesel stains/smells? (Thank god I neither own or need a car)

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          It will turn the washing machine into a dirtying machine.

          You can also dump diesel fuel in someone’s pool. I know a guy who knows a guy who had to fill in and bury his pool because he couldn’t ever get the smell out. I’m also pretty sure you can ruin tar shingles and sometimes fuck up someone’s driveway with diesel. It dissolves everything gasoline can but never evaporates. There are a million ways to ruin someone’s week or even year with diesel fuel before you even get into lighting it on fire.

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            Damn that’s evil… Couldn’t you, in theory, get rid of it by just setting the diesel on fire if it’s in your pool? Or would that fuck up the material?

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              It’ll be all up in the pipes and absorbed into the liner by the time you find it if the perp isn’t a colossal fuckup. I’m not sure if the film on top of the water will be thick enough to sustain flame anyway. It only takes like one five gallon tank, and diesel doesn’t make volatile fumes like gasoline.

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          I’d imagine the diesel acts as a solvent for the tar. In the washing machine, however, it’ll readily dissolve in water, leaving the tar clinging to every surface, including the drum and any hoses or pipes. And the clothes, of course. You’d have to flush the washing machine with diesel to get rid of it.