Fires eh
I'm a big fan of b3ta though i don't get to post too much, this is the first question thats really caught me eye.

Well, i like fire, not in a major pyromaniac way, but i can do the whole lighter flicky open thing with my fingers and lighting matches on my teeth. There's loads of stories of me and my mates burning each other and Lynx can flamethrowers re-enacting aliens, but one still sticks out in my mind.

A long long long time ago we went to a friend's house to get very drunk, we succeeded and we then proceeded to 'burn things for a laugh'. so we got a massive empty pot for plants, one of those terracotta ones with the breathing holes at the bottom, secured some cans of deodorant pointing at the side on pot, inside the pot was some lighters, so we lit the deodorant cans like flame throwers, the flame was contained in this mini furnace because the flame was being directed back on itself with the pot, so we videoed it, then i walked up to see if it was still going and BANG went the lighters. Thats probably going to teach us a lesson, but no, the air stank like vietnam and we looked for more materials.
We eventually settled on some radiator paint from a instanely massive can, and it made the biggest flame we had seen. so we walked across the road and 'secured' the can against the wall with pavement block against this building, the force of the can was so strong everytime we pushed the block onto the can it'd blow it back. so i stood there with a lighter and i pressed the block in place with my foot, the paint was pissing out everywhere and i lit it with the lighter, and the flame covered me, i lost some of my hair (not really anything to notice :D ) and part of my eyebrows, i looked like a right idiot, but as soon as the flame took i ran like a mad idiot back to my friend's house.

My other mate, who was filming this on his camera stood there.

So a woman came up and completely bollocked him for 'starting this fire' so he scarpered too, some of my mates ran back and got rid of the evidence, but the flames (on this video) were about 7+ feet high in the air against this building's wall.

So subsequently 3 fire engines came, and an ambulance, safe to say the lights were off in my mates house for HOURS, its hard to keep pissed people quiet too, due to the shock of what we'd just done, we sobered up quickly - but its hard to stop concerned friends from "having a quick word to tell them it wasn't you"

Eventually they went, it was in the newspaper etc that damage was done to the inside of the building too and the equipment inside, but i think that might be a bit dodgy, because the building was a steel hut with corrugated walls, but saying that, it was a 7 foot flame. i still like burning things though. HA

Sorry for it being long, and doubly sorry for not saying when/where this happened, but i'm sure you understand :D

p.s. when i find the vid, i'll post a link to it

edit = here we go fire
(stomm, Tue 2 Mar 2004, 20:52, Reply)