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Went to put petrol in my car and was wearing my Bluetooth earpiece. When Iwent to pay the girl behin the counter asked me not to wear the BT device when using the petrol station as one garage had blown updue to someone wearing one! She said it was something to do with the frequency. Was this crap? Or has anyone else heard of this?
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Posted: 2003-12-31 14:07:00
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I thought it was cellphones radiation that was dangerous...
didn't hear about
tho and since it was a military frequnecy in at least 2 countries I doubt it could blow up anything significant.
But perhaps this is too simple a line of thinking.....
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Posted: 2003-12-31 14:10:14
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well, zou often see signs at petrol stations to turn of radio transmission equipment.
Here is one site that says its an urban myth that it can cause an explosion, and
Here is one that says it can...
you decide!
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Posted: 2003-12-31 14:10:49
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Its crap!
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Posted: 2003-12-31 15:55:32
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The theory's sound, but in practice it just wouldn't happen. It's the same reason as why you should never put metal objects in a microwave oven, it causes arcing (sparks), but the signal from a mobile phone is much, much less powerfull than the radio waves produced by a microwave and so it would be practically impossible to produce a spark in this way.
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Posted: 2003-12-31 16:01:16
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In fact most ppl (where I am anyway) including myself use cellphones at gas stations. Never had anything explode on me
nor has anybody ever told me I couldn't do that. I am fairly sure there are no signs anywhere about cellphones overe here, at least I've never seen them.....
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Posted: 2003-12-31 17:37:27
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it's an urban myth. they tested it on a show called "myth busters" on TLC (don't know if you guys get that outside of the U.S.)
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Posted: 2004-01-05 18:46:16
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It is true... itīs very seldom but it can happen with mobile phones...
Lots of european countries have this sign in gas station (no mobile phones) but lots of folks don't even see it...
BTW: it is not the bluetooth earpiece by itsel, but if you have such one, it means that ur mobile phone is on....
[ This Message was edited by: ragazzo on 2004-01-05 18:54 ]
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Posted: 2004-01-05 19:52:17
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Like i said,its crap,i have known the guy who owns a petrol station down the road from where i live for years. He told me that when mobile phones were first made they had a high RF signal which cud be dangerous but now modern mobiles are made much better and are much less dangerous than they used to be,bt headsets have even weaker signals so you should be fine. But if still you have an 80's brick......switch it off! ;-)
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Posted: 2004-01-05 20:14:43
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i think it fairly out of date like boyi said.i say them test it on a show on british tv they covered a caravan in pertrol and left drums of exposed petrol inside then they filled up the caravan with about 20-30 mobiles and rang them all at the same time and nothing happened.
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Posted: 2004-01-05 20:26:35
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