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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Desk lamp dangerTo subdue the lighting in my flat I pointed my anglepoise desk lamp straight at and close to a big kapok-filled pillow I bought in Indonesia. After about an hour it began to smell like someone was baking the most delicious cake. Then the pillow began, ever so subtly, to smoke. Then I noticed that liquids spilt on it sizzled instantly into steam. So I put it in the shower and made a lot more steam. I wasn't about to sleep with this monster wet steaming death-pillow in my bathroom so I lugged it outside and dumped it in the courtyard... where, at 6am, the security guard saw it steaming and gave it a kick... which disintgrated the cover and allowed oxygen into its insides. It left scorch marks on the third floor and took eleven fire extinguishers to put it out. The next morning the whole courtyard was ankle-deep in singed kapok.
(, Fri 5 Mar 2004, 7:52, Reply)
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