Nearly burned my house down.......

TimurCivan

TimurCivan

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JEESUS. when they say "dont leave lit candles unattended" they arent kidding........

Just lit a couple scented tea candles, in my room while i was drawing, i suddenly smell somethign funny, turn ad lok, the wax melted and was so hot that it was boiling, and the vapur was pulsing into little mushroom cloud flames, and was turing my dresser top black and made it smoke......

had i fallen asleeep, or just went ot the other room to get coffe i would a lost everyhting. and everyone in my building may have lost everyhting.

Wow. that was nuts.

Thank god it turned out ok.
 
I was going to taunt you for lighting tea candles in a non-romantic situation, but I think you've adequately learned your lesson. :-)

Fox
 
My GF drives me nuts with that stuff, it's not uncommon for her to have ten unattended candles going all over the apartment well into the night when everyone is asleep. The whole deal scares the crap out of me, in my mind, fire is always looking for a way to make a bigger fire and if your not watching it, that's when it makes its move!
 
Thats some scarey sh!t. I think 75% of fires are started by candles. You would have been like the girl in my horrorfest flick.
 
We burn lots and lots of candles all the time, and have never had so much as a close call.

Now, the stove, that's quite another story...
 
I wouldn't know ANYTHING about nearly burning a house down, nope, not me, (whistles), nope, compeletely innocent.

Timur - stay away from candles, use flashlights.
 
we live with my grandma and she lit one of those foot tall 3 inch thick ones and fell asleep, a few hours later the fire alarms came on and she was blaming it on the kitchen, but nothing was in there.

we go into her bathroom and half the counter was in flames and the wax was going down the drain...

If it was not a bathroom with not much stuff to burn since its tile all over it would have been a big disaster.

It took a plumber 4 horus to get all the wax out of the drain.
 
Aram Bauman said:
Thats some scarey sh!t. I think 75% of fires are started by candles. You would have been like the girl in my horrorfest flick.
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I WOULDA BEEN LIKE THE GIRL IN MY HORROR FEST FLICK!!!!!! BURNED AND CRISPY!!!!
 
it got me freaked out cause it was, one second, everythign was fine, the next raging fire in my room....
 
I've become completely paranoid about leaving my laptop turned on while I'm sleeping, I have these visons of it bursting in to flames. I know the odds are pretty low, but I bought a bigass fire extinguisher at Costco-- just in case. I went through a homemade fireworks/candle making phase when I was a kid and it's a miracle I didn't burn my parent's house down.
 
:) The stuff we did as kids would land somebody in the pokey today. I blame it on my parents for getting me that badass chemistry set--back when chemistry sets still had good stuff inside.


TimurCivan said:
oh man do pyros just graduate to video gear?
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hey man in Brooklyn TEch ( a science based HS in NYC) some kid mixed Hydrogen peroxide and some acid/alkalate and made a rather powerful bomb that injured many people. he is in jail now.
 
Well, there's stupid and there's stupid. When we blew stuff up, we went to a remote area where nobody was around. And we stayed far away from people or property.
 
We made pipe bombs, and tested them in an old abandoned Nike radar site/trash dump across the road from my parents' house.

Got caught making nitrocellulose in chemistry lab. But we talked our way out of it by claiming that we'd just messed up the instructions for making cellulose.
 
When I was a lad at boarding school in England The classroom I was in shook so bad we thought it was an earthquake. Turned out to be a pipe bomb some of my shoolmates were building in the wood behind the school. One kid was killed and the other lost a leg.
 
Two words: long fuses

Mino said:
When I was a lad at boarding school in England The classroom I was in shook so bad we thought it was an earthquake. Turned out to be a pipe bomb some of my shoolmates were building in the wood behind the school. One kid was killed and the other lost a leg.
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