Moment idiotic smoker sets himself on fire lighting cigarette at petrol station

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CCTV footage has captured the moment a bloke accidentally set himself alight after dangerously lighting a cigarette while he was filling his car at a petrol station.

In the clip, which was captured in Chelyabinsk, Russia shows the man taking out a lighter for a smoke while he was waiting for his tank to fill with fuel.

But it went horribly wrong very quickly as just seconds later as he bursts into flames and starts running back and forth in a blind panic.

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A curious passerby just watched as the man's car also ignited, as the man rushed to get into the passenger side of the car to slide into the driver's side to move his vehicle.

The man, dressed in a white T-shirt and dark shorts, floors the pedal but runs back moments later with a fire extinguisher to douse down the rest of the flames.

Social media users on Nexta have since shared the clip online, with it gaining more than 265,000 views as the man became a laughing stock for the idiotic incident.

One viewer wrote: "Intelligent, well-educated society, an example to the world."

Another posted: "Brain lost, but saved his car.

A third commented: "Unfortunately, it was not a Russian tank."

A fourth said: "This is Russia. I expected the fire extinguisher to fail at the end."

Another quipped: "The Russians have nuclear weapons. What can go wrong … ."

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The news comes after supporters of Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine have been branded with a ret hot poker to create the 'Z' symbol on their bodies.

Nexta, a Belarusian media outlet, shared a video on their official Twitter account showing the branding of one man in a dingy tool shed somewhere in Russia.

The Z symbol has been sweeping social media after first appearing as an identifier on Russian tanks.

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