Pyromania
At the end of finals at uni, we decided to burn all of my mate's revision notes. We decided to do this in the metal wastebin in my room. This is a college room, on campus, with huge windows. Anyway we had quite a good blaze going for a few minutes, it was nice and warm and we made toast. Then someone asked what happens when it goes out - there's a smoke detector right outside the door. We didn't have to wait long to find out because the fire went out and within seconds the room was full of smoke and those bits of floating charred paper. Unable to open the door for fear of setting off the smoke alarm we opened the window and soon had a small audience of hockey players standing around outside who had been distracted from their game by what looked like a college room on fire. Eventually some bright spark poured the contents of the kettle in the bin and the smoke stopped, but we had to stay in the room for another 10 minutes while the smoke cleared. We were coughing and hacking for several days after that, and the bin is probably still in the same palce on the floor, seeing as it melted itself into the carpet.
(yesyesyes, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 10:34, Reply)