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Have you ever tried doing that? It works for about 5 minutes until the bag disolves.

errm, no - I am concerned to note that you obviously have.

For what it's worth, I've never done it but I also reacted "er, surely the bag's going to dissolve".

I think the photo you reference that was going round at the time was an old one from Brazil or Mexico or somewhere.

There is pictures in the Daily Mail of people emptying water bottles and filling them with petrol.

This is very common throughout Southeast Asia as short-to-medium-term fuel storage, I imagine elsewhere too.

I did this once in Malaysia as the piece of crap car I rented ran out of fuel 5 minutes after leaving depot. Walked to petrol station, tried to fill up Coke bottle with petrol, which created a wonderful petrol fountain/volcano all over me .. then a nice long walk back to the car in mid day sun ... was still a great trip :P

the best one I heard of was the people using domestic wheel bins as attempted fuel depots.

Cue fire brigade level intervention!