This story has almost nothing to do with screen printing by the way.
The other week, while I was happily working on painting a 4ft diameter fiberglass globe destined for the United States Congress (that is serious by the way) A loud noise rang out, echoing off the other building down on Fulton Market Street. I looked out the window to see a number of people looking down the street next to our building, and just as many backpedaling out of the alley at a decent clip. I then noticed a number of people from the warehouse on the corner shouting and waving at me. They we're shouting things like "You're on fire!" and "Hey! Get the hell out of there." They also persisted in pointing above and behind me as if there were something of importance that I was somehow missing. Since I was not at that point on fire, I had difficulty believing them and responded with things like "What?" and "Really?" So we begrudgingly toddled out of a possibly flaming building and exited into the alley to find two cars completely engulfed in nine feet of flame. Soon after the spectacle took effect, tires started exploding left and right, which served to bring us back to reality. The gas ignited, spewing flame out of the ...uhh..gas filling hole? But anyway, I have a much more realistic understanding of how cars burn, than Holloywood ever provided.
Upon speaking with a fellow gawker he informed me that the transformer had blown, raining down fire on to the innocently parked car, which went up apparently like a car that burns quickly and turned the SUV next to it into a nice toxic bonfire. What is in a transformer that rains down as balls of fire I thought. Why do they have to go and explode all the time in the first place?
To find out the semi-technical explanation check out the rest of the story at I'm So Smart Now
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