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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Balls of fire and a flaming cockWhen I was 17 and experimenting with stop motion, all my films ended up in fires and explosions after discovering the joy of dismantling fireworks.
When I burnt down the huge cardboard set for 'Frankenstein's Cock' (adapted from a Viz strip) the plasticine started to melt and all the little plastic props went too.
Then the whole set caught alight and in an attempt to deprive it of oxygen, hurled toilet paper on it...which predictably ignited. By the time the smoke alarm went off there was a campfire-sized conflagration in my room so I ran off to get a bucket of water...that feeling of being out of sight of a fire while furiously filling a bucket and soaking a towel felt like forever but I rushed back and doused the fire...
I stumbled downstairs, somewhat damp and sooty to find my entire family still happily watching telly. They thought it was a car alarm...dicks.
On the upside I got some great footage!
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At uni I had a mate called Matt who was a bit mad. We watched him attempt to set fire to his arse by pouring lighter fuel on it. As he ignited it we realised the fluid had run down his ploughman's and soaked into his pubes as he bent over. Twin sheets of flame erupted front and back as he stumbled around the room, pants round his ankles going "oooo! OOOOOO!" We were so doubled up with laughter we physically couldn't get up to help him. The result was hairless, very red genitalia and a scorched ringpiece. I later set fire to my goatee but that wasn't nearly as funny...
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