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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set the uni on fireI stuck a Pizza under the grill in the staff kitchen of the old computer science dept. at Heriot Watt University at 1am, then got engrossed playing a computer game (nethack, if you must know). After about half an hour I smelled the smoke which was gradually filling the whole building. (There were no smoke alarms, and it was right beside the computer room too) Burning my hand I slung the flaming item out the window into the street below. A passing tramp watched it sail over his head like a small UFO. I then opened all the windows I could. By the following morning everyone was wondering why it was so damn cold and where the odd smell was coming from.
(, Thu 4 Mar 2004, 14:14, Reply)
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