Stupidest thing you've done with fire.

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I'm really afraid of fire, so I seldom do anything with it. But, when I was a teenager, I did something which could have had disastrous consequences. We had a gas fire, which had a temperamental starter, so it sometimes needed to be lit manually, with a match. One day, when I came home from school, the house was empty and really cold, so I needed to light the fire. I'd no matches, but I'd seen my parents make a taper out of paper and light it from a cooker flame, so I attempted this. The paper immediately went on fire, all the way up to my fingers, flew into the air (maybe I threw it), as I screamed and jumped about the kitchen. Thankfully, it landed on the floor and the flame went out. Strangely, the window cleaner had been at the window the whole time. He seemed oblivious to the near disaster and just continued washing the windows.

Well, something that created fire. When I was a teen I put a pan with oil to heat on the stove to fry something and then went off to draw and forgot about it. The results included a fire extinguisher, a call to dad at work, and getting on a ladder to scrub the soot off the ceiling.

I lit top ramen on fire once in the microwave. That was still when I lived in Portland.

I left a candle on the table unattended and it burnt a hole. Other than that, I've always been very careful with fire.

Burned a bug when I was in elementary school

Went for a wee on the fire.

I sprayed my hand full of deodorant and lit it on fire. It took me a while to put the fire out.

I drew the head of a match stick against the striker while actually holding the head. I burned the skin of my finger and changed my finger print permanently.

At highschool my classmates and I made a long stick with sticky tape and ignited it. It actually lights like a candle, though it goes very fast. It didn't do any harm, but was still pretty dangerous.

Lighting firework close to my face. It went of a few centimeters from my eye. Had it been slightly tilted.....OMG!
That was a lesson to be remembered.

Made charcoal drawings for art classes that required spray fixative to keep them from smudging. Hair spray also works-chemically they are virtually the same and come in the same kind of aerosol spray cans.

One day I read the label of the Krylon fixative can and noticed that it said "higly flammable. Keep away from open flames."

So naturally I went to the fireplace, lite a candle, and proceded to spray the stuff through the candle flame.

It made a funky big flame, like a storybook dragon would make.

So...I wondered if I could take it to the next level, and use it to fashion a toy flamethrower.

I would expirament putting the candle in the front of the fireplace, and an empty cardboard milk carton in the back. I would imagine that the carton was a house and I would spray the stuff throught the flame to try to ignite the house. It only scorched it. Never ignited it.

I should to a pair of brothers on the street. They told their parents who told my parents. I got grounded.

The flame couldve entered the can and exploded.

But also- I learned years later that a true flamethrower doesnt just spray flame. Its like a hose that actually pours flaming liquid on its target.

What I had was more like a toy blow torch.

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I was burning wood once, a piece of wood once flew out of the barrel where the wood was burning, I just picked it up without noticing. I scorched myself. The wood was actually still glowing redish.

Ouch!

Set a list of house rules on fire that was nailed to my closet door.I was at a group home and they had sent me to my room. That was great,till they realized I liked it,then they made me keep my door open which pissed me off,so I lit the rules on fire,the house parent ambled by at that time and freaked out.It gets worse,he sat on me till the cops came.I wound up in the city jail.

Burned myself intentionally? That's the only one I can think of and I only did it twice. It was just done on a whim. One day I decided I was just going to burn myself just to see what it'd feel like.

I had the idea of throwing batteries in the fire to watch them burst/explode when I was in my pre-teens but I never acted on it and I got over the obsession in 1-2 months.