Have you ever started a fire?I went to sleep with candles burning - woke up to a circle of flame on the rug. Thought, "Tits. Better put the rug in the bath and turn the taps on." TIP: Don't put a burning rug into a fibre glass bath. I caused about £5000 of damage to the house and was coughing up smoky black phlegm for a few weeks. Can you beat that?
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rob, Tue 2 Mar 2004, 17:48)
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I was in the ATCI was doing my gliding scholarship at RAF Halton, and during the day there was very little to do, as you flew for an hour a day, and sat around for the rest of it.
This is when my love of fire started, August several years ago. We were sat outside our block, and two people happened to smoke. So, I started playing with their lighters, jacking them up and the usual thing. Then I started burning items. Taking labels off of drinks bottles and burning them to give off smoke, burning grass to give a weird smell. I discovered that spider webs burned particularly spectacularly- they disappeared in a ball of fire- along with any unfortunate spider in them...
Hair was next- there was one girl on the course who also had a penchant for burning things. she very stupidly let me burn some of her hair (that's right, the stuff attached to her head). It didn't all burn, but there were some slightly shorter areas and a strange burning protein smell that lingered for a few days.
The next bit of fun was down on the airfield. I was sat down, and decided to make a small bonfire from twigs and leaves. It was doing nicely- until i realised i was directly outside the staff office, next to the hanger and a matter of feet away from a fuel store and some aircraft...
Not really destroying much- but i feel it's the principle of the thing...
(, Tue 2 Mar 2004, 19:58, Reply)
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