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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well kinda a fireWell, I added 2 completely volatile substances together in a tank of petrol, which would have been good if it had been in an empty field, but this experiment just happened to be in the utility room of my house. The reaction, takes about 3-5 seconds to kick of, in this time I was bricking it, the flames bust out into the mixture which began spontaneously combusting, igniting the petrol, the flames as you can probably imagine, immediately ignited into a big ball of burning gas, in turn lighting the petrol vapours in the air, there was a huge, Whoof, and the flames went out, due to the vacuum that the vapours created on combustion. I escaped with no fringe and no eyebrows and no eyelashes. The two chemicals were potassium permanganate and glycerine. Don’t do it inside, you can buy both at chemists.
(, Tue 2 Mar 2004, 20:17, Reply)
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