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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dead trees don't burn, do they?I must've been about 7. Being an adventurous young whippersnapper, I had a 'den' in the woods. This den was essentially the dead, empty shell of what was no doubt once a large bush. It backed on to someone's backyard fence, which in turn backed on to their shed.
Dead wood being easy to find made a huge fire inevitable. To a 7 year old, the consequences of lighting a huge fire inside a dead bush are irrelevant, as this would require thinking more than 5 minutes into the future. Anyway, when the fire became larger than me and my fellow arsonists, we decided to leave the woods, taking a last glance back to see the fence up in smoke and the roofing felt of the shed beginning to drip.
The fire brigade were called by someone (not us, no sir!), and I didn't sleep well for a month. I never returned to the scene of crime, so have no idea of the extent of the damage. For all I know, I could have imagined it all. I was 7, you see.
(, Thu 4 Mar 2004, 14:34, Reply)
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