Stupidest thing you've done with fire.

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Melted down a Sharpie cap. My Sharpie dried out as a result.

sparkler bombs+ brush fence

Weedkiller bomb + gunpowder emptied from several fireworks + large wasps' nest in ground = an almighty great "whump!", a large jet of flame and several pounds of airborne earth.
And then the wasps came...

I once bought a large reel of magnesium tape for a few pennies from a junk sale and that gave many days' fun, at the cost of a washing line and a few tree branches.

A can of hairspray makes an astonishingly effective flamethrower once lit and is more than enough to set fire to curtains and scorch wallpaper off walls.

I may or may not have been responsible for a couple of railway embankment fires but whoever it was, the smoke ended up covering the whole neighbourhood.

DanRaccoon, I did the sock trick too. You'd think they'd be made a little more fireproof than that.

Though I'm quite the pyro, I've never done anything stupid with fire. Or, at least, the results weren't ever catastrophic.

I've melted old plastic with a magnifying glass one afternoon, when I was 10.

Accidentally lit a whole tree on fire when I was testing to see if sap was flammable. I can't remember how old I was when that happened, but it was sometime before I was 10.

I don't remember doing anything completely stupid with fire, but my sister had burnt the kitchen up once.

I dislike fire.

Let's just say I discovered firsthand that dry Christmas trees aren't suitable for use as firewood.

Good god. For a couple of seconds, it was like a nuclear reaction in the fireplace.

I just remembered. I've held a Christmas napkin over a burning candle and a piece fell off and landed on the shag carpet of the first house that I've lived in. My mum stamped on the flame in a panic. I was 5 at the time.

Stupidest thing I've done with fire...

There is a way to be really efficient about reducing computer monitors and such into confetti. It is galvanized steel, about 5" long by 3/4" wide and is full of pistol powder. Nowadays it would probably land you an indefinite detention in a government facility.

I was very careful about it, and it was incredibly fun, but it was still stupid.

I struck a kitchen match (toward myself!) when I was 6 years old. I thought my mom would be proud of me for doing something on my own but then she explained that I was too young to handle matches. It was so embarassing!

I also accidendally briefly set a paper towel on fire when I was about 14. Fortunetely, I made it to the sink in time to run the towel under water before it set anything else on fire. I remember that I was cooking but I can't remember exactly how the towel caught fire.

Also, this isn't exactly stupid but if there was a piece of paper with something I really resented written on it, I used to shred it, burn it, and then flush it down the toilet! (I would do even more nasty things to it but if I mentioned them I'd probably get a scolding from one of the mods!) My OCD was the end of the shreding-burning-and-flushing thing.

I gave it to humanity.

I've been an accessory to burning down two fields. One behind my house with my brother (totally accidental, it was just really dry and we were playing with matches and we were like 10 years old, DON'T JUDGE US! )
And the other time I was just present when a friend lit a cup of gasoline on fire and then was disappointed with the fire that was produced and (! !) kicked the cup over. I heard a "whoommpp!!" and ran for the car. I don't know how that one ended but I doubt it was favorable.

Fire scares me So does water, for that matter.

Dumbest fire related incident with me was accidentally setting my crotch on fire back when I was about 15 or 16. My pants were wet, so I was trying to dry them by a fire with me still in them. Looking back, I sometimes wonder if I was just clueless until a certain age.

i work for Don Vito "the Godfather " Corelone and I rutinely beat snitches to a pulp ,pour gas on them and set them on fire ...I think I got all you guys beat.

i tried to smoke a "roll your own" toilet paper "cigarette" once.