Here's a fire related story
Having finished our final year at High School, the best part of our year in something of a cliche descended en mass to the beach for a bonfire, BBQ and mostly illegal drinking. We had brought an amount of petrol to help the Bonfire along and used it quite sensibly initially, however as the drink started flowing and the night progressed, a few crazy heads started "playing with fire".

The canister of petrol was mostly used in non-hilarious fashion, yadda yadda, but at the end my good friend James trying to get the last of the petrol out of the canister, went for the classic "hold can high and look inside" trick. Idiot. So a trickle of the last drop of fuel landed square in his right eye. I'm not sure if anyone's landed petrol in the eye before, but I'm told it is agonising.

My lasting memory of that night is the image of James desperately pouring the only non-petrol fluid to hand - a 2 litre bottle of Diet Coke & Lemon - directly over his head and gushing the entire content into his eye socket.

He was quickly driven to hospital and he made a full recovery.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 11:29, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'd like to say what a bunch of dopey twats you all were,
But that would be hypocritical.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 11:36, Reply)

that made my eye water just reading it

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 11:45, Reply)