Get out, get the fire brigade out and STAY out
Now most kids were scared of ghosts and monsters, those shadows that terrorise you in the night, but my fear was a very real one.

Fire

My Dad constantly fretted about house fires and never tired of telling me how serious they were and how a TV left plugged in overnight or a slightly coiled cable could cause us all to perish in an inferno.

Cruely, to coincide with my Dad's terrifying lectures, in the mid-late 80s there were a series of Public Info Films on the TV all concerning the threat of house fires, how two breaths of smoke is fatal and how every electrical appliance is conspiring to send you to a firey doom. They always seemed to be on just before bedtime too!

Here are some of the most notorious ones that caused me sleepless nights:


youtu.be/92xPM7JR2NU

youtu.be/3bVQ_0TyUSI

youtu.be/GGRDS7Lr5Yo

eeep!
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 9 Apr 2012, 12:15, 2 replies)

I died in a house fire as a small child
you insensitive bitch.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 9 Apr 2012, 19:18, closed)

Fuck me. (not literally)
Those are scary! I didn't see them when they came out though, what with me being a 'yoof' an all.
(D.I.pshit solved another case on, Wed 11 Apr 2012, 23:52, closed)