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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Tales of Chemistry...Bonfires on the heatproof mats were an old favourite of mine. There was one time when we nestled a coil of magnesium in the centre of the mass of splints. It was burning happily as usual, then began to glow...... miraculously we managed to tip the whole thing (which was pretty sizeable) into the sink before the teacher completed her walk to the back of the room to investigate the commotion.
Oh, and one time my mate put the bunsen on a gas tap, then went off to light a splint off someone else's flame. Unbeknownst to him, someone changed the tap that his bunsen was attached to while he was away. He comes back, turns on the tap that he thought had a bunsen on it, and stood casually holding the splint over the bunsen. eventually enough gas leaked out to meet the splint and create a lovely fireball, which meant that he was trying to pick the singed bits out of what remained of his eyebrows for the entire bus journey home.
oh, and i've set two of my mates on fire in the past. They're just such an easy target when they're giving you a hug.....
(, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 21:14, Reply)
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