Fire!We were all in my aunt's kitchen at the back of her huge rambling Victorian house. I was only small and had wandered off to go to the loo, but given up after finding the hall full of smoke. "That was quick," my mum said after a few minutes. "Yes - it's all smoky," I replied.
I've never seen adults move so fast.
So, like my cousin who'd managed to set fire to the roof, tell us your fire stories.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:11)
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Not really an amazing fire story but...Shows how stupid people can be.
Living in Rural somerset a large number of parties we used to have during the last few years of secondary school would be in large fields,with a few tents and a bigish fire. Come one party at the start of the summer, most of us are all very drunk and one or two guys decide it would be a good Idea to throw Aerosol cans onto the fire.
This Idea is not too disimilar to one such as reinacting scenes from the Vietnam war using real shells.
I was standing chatting to a mate with my back to the fire when a guy who we shall call Gimp, because he is one, Shouts GET DOWN and throws a can into the fire. My friend and I hit the floor like felled trees and being drunk laugh like loons at the amazing explosion we just witnessed. I stop laughing when I notice the piece of "shrapnel" from the can lying about 3 feet away from me.
Although I did point out to many that this could have killed someone Gimp proceeded to throw 5 more cans into the fire throughout the evening. No one was injured though which is pretty amazing.
(, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 16:08, Reply)
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