[bigeasy1]

I'm trying hard to see how someone could actually go far enough to put a fuel nozzle into a flush mount rod holder before realizing the mistake. I guess I can see how it could possibly happen if you weren't paying attention or were stoned or hung over. I've heard about this happening several times before. (Now I can see how it can happen after reading Cdaviscb's post)

I did have a few gallons of gasoline pumped into my bilge from a cracked fill hose.I didn't smell it when we were filling up at the gas station,but got a strong smell of gas when we were backing the boat down the launch ramp.
I had hold of one of the stern lines and when the bilge vent reached me I could smell it.I immediately yelled to my buddy to pull the trailer back out of the ramp and when we got away from the launch I climbed into the boat and lifted the motor box cover(an I/O) to find a couple gallons of gasoline in the bilge.
I shudder to think that what if I had actually dropped the boat in the water and neglected to turn on the bilge blower before turning the ignition key.

So I take it to the boat yard where I get service just a couple minutes away and tell the mechanic what happened.He has me pull the boat up the yards exit which is a fairly steep gravel drive and proceeds to take out the drain plug letting the gas run out into the ground.
I couldn't believe it ,when I questioned him on doing that he just said "Hey! it came out of the ground I'm just putting it back".
Anyway it took me over an hour to get that vapor and smell out of the boat with continuous washings with a lot of bilge cleaner. The next day we changed the fill hose and found the original to be cracked in several places,an accident with horrible results just waiting to happen.