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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Woopsie doo...One day when the folks were out (I was about 12), I decided that I was cold so wanted to put the fire on. But this was a "real" fire not a gas fire back then. So....confident that I had seen my dad do it a few times, I grabbed handfulls of newspapaer and a few bits of kindling (not enough it turned out) and shoved them in the fire. Then lit the lot. Cut to lots of smouldering paper and smoke but no warmth...and my mam coming up the drive. Being a resourseful little so and so, I decided the best way out of this was to run to the garage and use the small fire extinguisher that was in there to "dispose of the evidence". Sprayed said extinguisher in fire place which caused lots of little bits of burning paper to fly ALL OVER the lounge. Try explaining that away. No damage caused though (remarkably!). Also set light to a wastepaper bin in the lounge - the type surrounded by felt to match in with furniture. Didn't match after the bin melted and the felt went black tho...
Sorry for the long post but my arsonist past has to be revealed!
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 13:48, Reply)
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