Stupidest thing you've done with fire.

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I reached through a bunsen flame in secondary school

I accidentally held a lighter too close to my finger and burned myself.

Had a magnifying glass so I set some wood and some bugs on fire. I set a slug on fire once. It was screaming, I think.

I have never actually harmed insects for fun/curiosity. I feel like part of my childhood is missing.

The stupidest thing I've ever done with fire was use it to cook some terrible chickpea curries during my vegetarian years.

Lit the stove top on fire. Twice. Oops.

You were in a group home? What for, if you don't mind my asking. If you do mind then I totally understand not answering.

I've never done anything stupid with fire, I'm a bit afraid of it. I have heard of people lighting farts and burning their butts, but never knew anyone personally that did. I did know a guy who did something stupid with fire though. His name was Donny (that's close enough) and Donny was a friend of mine when I was married to my ex husband. He used to hang out with us a lot and was a really nice boy. Very well mannered and all but not always doing strictly legal things. This one time, Donny's friend wanted to collect the insurance money on his car and he said it was stolen. He got Donny to drive it out in the middle of nowhere and set it on fire, so if it was found they couldn't make him take it back. Donny got too close and set his hair and hands and all on fire. His mustache, eyebrows, hair, arm hair all burned off. He was in bandages for a long time. Later on he shot himself in the head by accident and lived. The bullet grazed him and tore a big ole trench through his scalp but it wasn't too bad. They let him go home from the hospital that night but he had on bandages again. This was just a week or so after getting the burn bandages off. I guess he's lucky in a way. He used to let people drive over his foot because people didn't think it was possible without breaking it, then this one dude spun out of it and he was in a cast for a while. He was lucky but he was also very stupid.

Lighting up hairspray, thank goodness we didn't start any fires. Accidentally set a lab partner's hair on fire...the bunsen burner wouldn't light so I cranked on the gas. (She was fine, I just dunked her head in the sink.)

I lit a firecracker with a short fuse and it blew up in my hand. I was counting my fingers as I ran for the aloe plant. But my ex set my mom's house on fire accidentally from smoking whilst painting with very flammable paint.

It will be one of this two:
- I accidentally set myself on fire (accident with gasoline used for carburetor cleaning)
- I burned myself to 3rd degree burn with white-gloving-hot-iron (I was fascinated with blacksmithing)

burning a cucumber and wet toilet paper .

No open flame, but I turned on the back burner on accident . . . with the giant bag of birdseed on top of it. Fortunately I caught my mistake before there was fire, but I grabbed the plastic bag . . . and birdseed fell out of the melted bottom onto the burner, which probably smothered any firey thoughts the stove was having. House smelled like roasted peanuts for a few hours. Try cleaning melted plastic and birdseed off of a stove burner. Loads of fun.

now and then I will turn on the wrong burner on the stove and stuff I have stacked on top of the wrong burners [lack of horizontal storage space in my tin can] will catch fire and make me jump up and put it out. burning towels stink to heaven, btw.

I combined rocketry with thermate (more potent version of thermite) reactions in a series of experiments out at a farm. I would have been around 12 or so when it was done. Not one of my good ideas.

I'm glad that I never got drunk and tried to light my farts, when I was in the army in the hospital I worked in, we got the odd guy in the ER who did just that. usually was burned hairless and sometimes burns on the inside as well. that woulda been a PITA for sure.

I told Prometheus that he should steal fire from Zeus.

Didn't work out too well for him. Sorry 'bout that, P.

also glad I was not that poor fella who decided it was a good idea to accelerate the action of his lava lamp by putting the glass element right atop the stove burner. the increased heat from the stove burner raised the internal pressure inside the glass bulb higher than designed for [was made to accept the heat from no more than a 30 watt lightbulb] so the result was it exploded and sent shards of glass ripping through the poor fella like shrapnel from a grenade. RIP