{"id":2475,"date":"2007-07-02T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T17:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/man_seeing_gas-go_up_in_flames_curses_dumb_luck.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:27:51","slug":"man_seeing_gasg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/man_seeing_gasg.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Seeing Gas-Go Up In Flames Curses Dumb Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was a bad day to get caught with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07012007\/news\/regionalnews\/gas_goofballs_terror_scare_regionalnews_erin_calabrese.htm\">80 gallons of gas in your burning minivan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Mexican man sparked fears of terrorism in Brooklyn last night when his minivan containing a tank with 80 gallons of gasoline caught fire, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Alvareto, 35, was illegally reselling the gas out of his 350-gallon capacity van on McDonald Avenue near Avenue C in Kensington &#8212; almost directly in front of a Yeshiva and near a Mosque &#8212; when the fuel pump ignited at about 8:50 p.m., they said.<\/p>\n<p>He yanked the hose out of the tank and drove away, then returned to put out the burning hose with a bucket of water, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Charges were pending against Alvareto last night.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the wrong person [knew he had all that gas in the van, he] could do some real damage,&#8221; said witness Giacomo Incannila. &#8220;They could come and steal it. Next thing you know, it would be like what happened in London.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was a bad day to get caught with 80 gallons of gas in your burning minivan: A Mexican man sparked fears of terrorism in Brooklyn last night when his minivan containing a tank with 80 gallons of gasoline caught fire, cops said. Dennis Alvareto, 35, was illegally reselling the gas out of his 350-gallon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}