Not me but .......
My introduction to motorcycling was running about across the park on anything from old Lambrettas to Puch Maxis, Yamaha Fizzys etc. In those days garages would sell you petrol in any type of container at all. I remember going and buying petrol in a milk bottle. .... no, really !

Anyway on this ocassion I was put in charge of a bean can half full of petrol. So when my big mate took it off me with a mind to putting a match to it, who was I to object.

So stupid bugger did exactly that and when, as you can imagine the ensuing conflagration very quickly got out of hand he blew hard into the tin to try to blow out the flames. Needless to say his head was engulfed in flames pretty damn short shrift. Luckily there was another even older bloke on hand who quickly smothered the flames with his parka and the summon substance of my mate's injuries was only badly singed hair and no eyebrows or lashes left. (They did grow back though.)

They say that experience is doing stupid things and getting away with them. You don't however need to do them yourself .... I've never since even considered trying to blow out a can of burning petrol.
( Ramsay Tupper, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 14:25, Reply)