“A hair stylist was pumping gas into her car when her hair burst into flames.

‘That scared me to death,’ said stylist Traci Marshall.

The fire was probably caused by static electricity from Marshall’s hair rubbing against her clothes, said her husband, Camilla firefighter Lt. Bill Marshall.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution

I have recently noticed the proliferation of warning signs about static electricity precautions at the pumps — turn off your cell phone, ground yourself on some bare metal away from the pump, etc. — and classed them as among the absurd profusion of needless cautions with we are afflicted so that corporate lawyers can create the impression that they have earned their keep by advising their clients’ due caution around all manner of conceivable liability issues both realistic and outlandish. Now, maybe I will reassess at least this particular risk, although I don’t have a beehive hairdo…