Weelllll!

The Navy Safety Bulletins were put out on the East Coast by the Norfolk
Naval Safety Center. In fact, our ship was mentioned twice in separate
safety violations in 1968 and 1969. Our Commanding Officer, when he was
relieved in April 1969, was assigned to that very same location as
'punishment' for one of the safety infractions he committed in January
1968. I personally read the Safety Bulletin that 'banned' BIC lighters
from breast pockets of welders. I didn't believe this either when I was
first told of this when I reported on board my ship so I asked to see
the 'paper'. It was there- kept in the Engineering Department Office
along with the NAVSHIPS TECHNICAL BULLETINS. This didn't apply to me as
I used a Zippo.

Spewey wrote:

> Gawd dang newsgroups.
>
> The exploding lighter legend emerged in the late 1970s. According to
> Morgan and Tucker, it probably began as a word-of-mouth rumor which �
> whatever its origins � was "soon picked up by worried officials and
> spread further with the help of copy machines."
>
> http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/lighters.htm
>
> chris gonzalez wrote:
>
>> I call BS on that myth....
>>
>>> John Klun wrote:
>>>
>>> The story below is quite true....
>>
>
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