FYI I work for the biggest SCADA software company in North America. I've heard stories like that. Not the rupture part, but the "you think you can do something? HA!"A company I worked for had a tank farm in the middle of nowhere. It had 4 tanks that held on the order of 100,000 barrels of petroleum each. The local volunteer fire department came out to ask us what they should do in case one of the tanks caught on fire...
"Hop in your fire truck and drive away as fast as you can go..."