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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I set fire to myselfI had a large can of lighter fluid, and not much to do at the time, so as any fule kno, you cna put a little lighter fluid on your hand, light it, and watch it burn off, while leaving your hand unsinged.
Cleverly, though, I thought that while a little lighter fluid might make a little flame, a BIG amount might make a BIG flame. Unimpeachable logic, I feel.
So I poured a load of fluid over my hand, till I could cup it, and set fire to it. For ther first few seconds, everything was cool, until I noticed that my hand was getting hot, which made me jerk my hand a bit. This in turn made the pool of lighter fluid run down my hand and down my arm. This wasn't good at all, as there was now a streak of flame running from my hand to my arm, encasing my hand totally, and partially covered by my jumper. Because I couldn't see my burning arm inth ejumper, I panicked, and started waving my hand around, which started throwing fire around the room. Luckily wiser counsels prevailed and told me to smother the flames with my jumpersleeve, which worked, although hair is reluctant to grow back on the arm now...
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