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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The Jolly Rogers Cookbook...has a lot to answer for. One disaster occurred after gently heating sodium nitrate and sugar in a pan until it melted together to make smokebombs. I ended-up with a hockeypuck sized 'bomb' in a pan and a spoon used as the stirrer coated in residue. After retiring upstairs to my bedroom I sat the pan on the bed and could only resist the temptation to do something completely spastic for so long.
So I decided to burn the residue off the spoon and marvel at it crackling and spitting in an enthralling fashion. Until it spat a spark straight onto the hockeypuck and ignited the fucker.
Cue 4 foot white and purple flame rapidly filling by room with smoke. Cue lumps of incandescent material spitting onto bedsheets. Cue me lifting scorching hot pan to place on non-flammable surface. It took 4 hours to clear my room, all the while praying my old man wouldn't come upstairs. Or go outside and look up at the strangely opaque windows with smoke billowing out. My hands after carrying the pan were covered in enormous blisters for a week and a half as well that could squirt pus up to 6 feet away.
*BELM*
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