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By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 2:39 PM on 01st April 2009
But this man certainly learnt his lesson when he apparently tried to light a cigarette - and nearly lost his life.
He had just purchased a package of cigarettes at a petrol station in Arizona as his friend pumped petrol into their SUV.
CCTV footage shows the man approaching his friend, pumping petrol into the car...
The man tries to light a cigarette - and sparks an explosion...
The explosion engulfs the vehicle as the driver backs away
It is believed that the unnamed man then made the nearly-fatal mistake of trying to light a cigarette while standing next to his friend - still pumping the highly flammable gas into the car.
What happened next was caught on a surveillance camera at the petrol station in Chandler, Arizona.
A massive explosion engulfed the hapless man in flames, leaving him flailing about in terror until a quick-thinking petrol station employee managed to douse him in water.
See video of the explosion here
The surveillance video shows the driver of the SUV leaping away - then rushing back to the fire to rescue a baby in the back seat of the car.
A shocked woman can also be seen scrambling from the car to safety.
Another man in the SUV 'said his friend was just messing around, and evidently struck a match, and that's when everything blew up,' Phillip Butler, general manager at the Chevron petrol station told local media.
The man - who was apparently on leave from serving with the U.S. armed forces in Iraq - suffered burns to 20 per cent of his body, his mother said.
The victim flails about in flames until a quick-thinking employee turned a water hose on him
The victim runs in terror
Cashier Benjamin Gonzalez told media that as soon as he saw the fire, he ran out, pulled the nozzle out of the pump and doused the whole thing with water.
'By the time I got there, the guy was on fire, running around all crazy,' said Gonzales - who was on his first week on the job.
'I didn't want the whole thing going on fire, don't want an explosion in here, you know,' said Gonzalez.
'Thank God they pulled the kid out in time,' said Vanessa Nuno, a petrol station employee who witnessed the incident.
No one else was seriously hurt.
Employees said the incident underscores the dangers of gasoline. Even fumes can catch fire.
'One spark, that's enough to blow up everything,' said Gonzalez.
