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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not me but my housematewe lived in an old terraced house with a dodgy gas boiler in a cupboard in the kitchen, with a pilot light that had a tendency to blow out on windy days. To relight it there was a little button that released some extra gas and another to make a spark to light it.
So one day she notices it`s gone out again. After 5 minutes of failing to relight it (each time releasing a little more gas) she succeeded, spectacularly. Cue explosion, small fireball blasting out the top of the cupboard, her being blasted out the bottom of the cupboard and large amount of plaster flying off the walls.
come to think of it, the landlord didn`t even replace it, but he looked like santa so he could get away with such things.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 11:11, Reply)
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