What is the strangest thing you ever set aflame?

[GhostThatWalks]

Some fresh cut toenail clipings.

[mitchum]

1. microphones and new cars

[nini]

2. yuck.. did it stink like hair?

stinky

[fishnfla]

3. earhair, or the back yard

long stories, both

[jobycom]

15. Anyone from the south

has set their backyard on fire.

[CO Liberal]

26. A Few Years Ago Outside Pueblo...

...some guy set a fire to drive some snakes away. He burned down his trailer, and the trailer next door.

:-)

[jobycom]

34. I've almost been there

At a friend's back home in Mississippi, my spouse and I were explaining how to backburn a lot to clear grass. One of the other guys there decided to start before we had explained it all. Almost took out two houses and a trailer, but the fire department got there just in time.

Never try to tell a city guy how to burn something.

[CO Liberal]

36. They Seem to Do a Good Job In Detroit

Every year around Halloween.....

[amerikat]

4. croutons

I was having lunch one day at the diner with folks from work. Somebody said these croutons are half oil.....so i lit a match and sure enough they lit right up.

[brokensymmetry]

5. Steel.

Seriously. It took some charcoal and a good flow of pure oxygen, but I burned steel! :evilgrin:

[Taverner]

6. Napalm

Hey I was in college and roomed with a chemistry major.

The smell of napalm in the morning truly is something to behold...

[jobycom]

12. You beheld a smell? Coool! nt.

[Tummler]

7. A scorpion, about half an hour ago

Damn thing was on a tile floor, and I was barefoot. A wand lighter was within reach. The torched scorp began to convulse wildly and made a popping noise. The smell was not pleasant. I have no regrets.

[Taverner]

8. The only good bug

...is a dead bug!

[WilliamPitt]

25. "I have no regrets."

LOL :)

How big was it?

[Tummler]

42. Not too big, but not a baby

It was your standard-issue, Texas-variety scorpion.

It was actually my second victim of the night. Earlier I'd encountered another medium-sized one in a carpeted part of the house. I was also barefoot (hey, I'm an Arkie), but I did have a pair of scissors in hand. Oooh, you should have seen how mad he got when I cut his tail off! They don't like that at all!

[Ready4Change]

9. Toy stuffed sheep.

Don't ask. If you do ask, I ain't talkin'.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

10. My hair

At a very young age, I disassembled a Black Cat firecracker to see how it worked. It suddenly struck me that I could create an even BIGGER firecracker and set it off on the patio.

I emptied the explosive powder out of about 100 firecrackers, and wrapped it tightly in newspaper and scotch tape with five or six fuses twisted together sticking out of one end. I lit it and stepped back.

Hint: Don't try this at home. Dozens of flaming bits of scotch tape falling from the sky can damage your body and cause great pain. Especially when you are temporarily confused by your sudden deafness.

[nini]

13. OMG!!!

did your mom wanna kill you?

wow, lucky you're alive!

[jobycom]

16. Damn! I can't stop laughing!!

No kidding, my cats are looking at me! That's wild!

Umm, but a bad influence...

[TheWizardOfMudd]

19. Heh heh. True Story!

One of my great childhood memories. :)

[WLKjr]

30. That is pretty funny

I used to put black cats on little hotwheels cars of mine thinking they would go zooming down the street, nope, they just blew up and sent metal chunks flying.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

38. Heh heh

You should have tried pop bottle rockets or those chaser things. Live and learn. ;)

[jobycom]

11. Toothpaste, and charged batteries.

The toothpast was cool, it sort of popped. The batteries were an accident. I was burning trash as a kid (yes, there are places without trash pickup) and suddenly I heard the same sound you hear in the WWII movies when a shell is coming in, followed by something shooting past my feet and popping loudly. It was the remains of a battery. I tried to duplicate that, and never could. It was so cool!

Oh yeah, and we used to put plastic milk jugs on a stick, set them on fire, and Napalm ant beds with them. I've since repented of my wicked ways.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

14. I guess I'm boring

I've only set an oven mitt on fire when I accidentally touched it to a broiling oven rack.

[jobycom]

21. I was a junior pyromaniac as a kid

I used to experiment with everything. The toothpaste was just one of several bathroom chemicals I was playing with that day. Luckily it was an old house with a porcelin on steel sink and tub. I used to invent fireworks weapons. A friend of mine and I used to shoot Roman candles at each other. We'd have firecracker wars. He had a treehouse, and one of us would get the treehouse, and the other would lay siege with bottle rockets. I found a hole once in the floor, so I pulled the stem off a bottle rocket, lit it, and stuffed it in the hole. He almost killed me when he got out of there. Another time he set my shirt on fire with a well-timed Blackcat.

Always supervise your children, btw. My youngest is so much like me I'm afraid to let her out of my sight.

[dolo amber]

17. Umm....my high school chemistry class?

:o

Seriously, I don't know exactly how it happened. I guess there was some trapped gas somewhere in the line or something, I went to light the bunsen burner, and

:nuke:


And they had the nerve to a) try to punish me (like suspension or something) and b) do after-school work to *pay* for the damage! (Neither of which I ended up having to do. ;))

[Piltdown13]

22. One of my friends did something similar

I guess the rubber tube leading from the gas nozzle to the burner was old or something, but somehow the tube started burning instead of the burner starting. And her first instinct was to blow on it! Not too helpful; cutting off the gas was. After that, she never wanted to be the one to light the burner again...result in my next post. :-)

[Piltdown13]

18. My hair

I had "zero-period" chemistry class my sophomore year in high school. The class started at 7:15 a.m. I believe. Anyhow, the experiment one day required heating, so out came the bunsen burners. I started lighting ours without tying my hair back first (had hair almost to my waist back then) and of course managed to set my hair burning along with the burner. Pretty stinky!

Perhaps not coincidentally, around the same time the teacher changed lab policy -- anytime we needed heat, we used hot plates; burners only came out if an actual flame was needed.

[Burma Jones]

20. This guy's shoe, he was wearing it.

Damn LSD.

P.S. The victim was unhurt, but we soaked him with a fire extinguisher to make sure.

[Cush]

23. Part of a sidewalk

when I was around 12 years old. A girl gave us (myself, brother and some friends) this old beat up Barbie doll of hers. So we decided to "sacrifice it" we put it on the sidewalk and drenched it with rubbing alcohol. Oops, used a bit too much and it ran onto the sidewalk. Fortunately, we smothered it very very quickly.

[WilliamPitt]

24. My cat.

TOTALLY accidentally. He was in my lap and I lit a match to smoke a cigarette, and this bit of flaming sulphur from the match alighted on the cat's back. Note to world: Cat hair is *really* flammable. I put it out in one tenth of a second, and the cat never knew anything was wrong in the first place, but boy howdy, that fur started to burn quick.

[WLKjr]

27. A computer Hard Drive

Maxtor didn't believe me, I witnessed their drive go up in flames in my computer after it made some funny noises(no it was not a screw rolling around that grounded it or touching any metal parts) it just started to smell funny and I look in my case and there it was, on fire. The computer soon took a nose dive and crashed. The magic smock had been released! lol

[Gom Jabbar]

31. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode

"Darrrrr, the hard drive is burning at an alarming rate!"

:)

[havocmom]

28. Parsley

Have used the mircowave to dry lots of it, but one bunch burst into flames. NOT pretty

[FranzFerdinand]

29. honeycomb cereal

over an open campfire...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

32. A farming village or two during my mispent youth in the service

of Uncle Sam.
Or twenty. Who kept count?

[SarahB]

33. A flask holding bacterial samples.

Official, sanitary, scientific-type purposes only though.

[dudeness]

35. a fart..

we call it a blue flame..

[phillybri]

45. Same here...

What a sight...

[toddzilla]

37. a "my little pony" toy..

Me and a friend soaked it in gasoline and played baseball with it..

i'm a pyro.
:evilgrin:

[OneBlueSky]

39. a lumber yard . . .

don't ask . . .

[flaminbats]

40. my model rocket years ago at space camp...

it twisted in the air for 10 seconds, flew sideways and then exploded! The poor little cricket inside died..and that was just the payload.

[SacredCow]

41. Star Wars Action Figure...

Tied his ass to a spool of thin wire, set him alight, and tossed him off of the balcony where my cousin was living at the time (in Honolulu, 20-something floors up). Yes, we got busted. No, I don't remember which action figure it was- but it burned well.

[arbusto_baboso]

43. Next door neighbors' mailbox.

I was a kid. I was stupid. It's a long story.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

44. A Twinkie or rather...

the alcohol that we were using to set it aflame with. We tried to ignite the Twinkie but that was certainly not happening. So we doused it with alcohol. We set the alcohol aflame, and that even flowed down the street a bit with the fire. The Twinkie however basically remained unscathed. Come the apocalypse all that will be left is Twinkies eating the cockroaches.