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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Foolish ExperimentWhen I was at university I decided to see if my cheap nylon curtains were flammable. I did this by holding a lighter to the bottom of them. They were very flammable.
Another time I set fire to my carpet. I'd heard that the shoe polish is easier to apply if you melt it. So I duly lit my Kiwi polish tin, which co-incidentally, is very flammable, and promptly burnt my finger. Putting the lid back on the pot, thinking that that would extinguish the flames, I went to run my finger under cold water. After about 1 minute I began to smell that tell-tale smell of burning. Ran back into the room to find the newspaper I was polishing my shoes on was on fire. Evidently I didn't but the lid back on the pot firmly enough. 30 seconds of frantic goose-stepping on the paper soon put the newspaper out. Totally managed to melt the carpet. Story has a happy ending as I managed to claim a new carpet back by telling Endsleigh that I'd knocked over a candle. Don't think they pay out for people being stupid dicks.
(, Fri 5 Mar 2004, 13:13, Reply)
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