Stupidest thing you've done with fire.

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i tried to melt all kinds of crap back in the day.

my late mother tried to un-warp an old warped phonograph record so she put it in the oven on a cake sheet but the oven wouldn't get at the exact temperature required [110F] so the record just reverted to a pile of goo like it was before it was stamped at the factory.

that's...i'm sorry but i probably would have laughed if i were there.

i just get a kick from seeing things unintentionally turn into piles of goo

I think it was a patty page record - "how much is that doggy in the window."

I got pissed with all the crap in my house and burned almost everything I owned at New Year's.
I don't really consider that stupid though.
It was kinda cleansing.

Once I was demonstrating how to flick-light matches to light a gas burner and I miscalculated the force needed because I was used to using the larger size matches but I only had a box of the smaller ones.
The match flicked too high and landed in the swag of the nylon curtains above, which instantly burst into flames.
I had to yank the whole curtain rod down with blazing curtains and throw everything out the window.

I was melting straws and making mountains and sculptures with them when I was waiting to see if I was going to be hired at the bank for a few months. I also live in an apartment as well, so I'm lucky I didn't set my alarm off.

Well I haven't really done a lot of stupid things with fire....risk of getting burnt is a good deterrent. But I have been careless a couple of times whilst smoking. One time I was smoking cannabis with some people after one had just styled my hair with hairspray, well I went to light the bowl for my turn and my hair caught on fire for a second enough to singe some of my hair and half my eyebrow worst part of that was the smell of burnt hair.

I do however like making fires and throwing stuff in to burn, especially pine cones because its really cool when they burn.

Also back when I was a teen I decided to undo the baptism I underwent at church, because I decided I was a satanist for a while which involved burning a little document I had confirming the baptism cant remember how the rest of my little ritual went though. I don't think it's so much stupid as a little silly.

Sometime around junior high I used to do art work (charcoal drawings) and would spray the works with fixative like Krylon (similiar to hair spray) to keep my work from smearing like mom the artist showed me.One day I noticed the warning on the can "highly flamable. Keep away from open flame".

So...naturally.... I was inspired to experiment with a can of Krylon to see if it would make a good flamethrower.

I would set up empty milk cartons in the fire place, and light a candle in front of milk carton, and then try to ignite it by spraying it with Krylon through the candle flame (like its an enemy tank) . The spray would form a cool looking broad spray of flame (like a dragon's breath) that would scorch the milk carton. But I could never actually ignite any of the milk cartons. But I showed that to a couple friends who were brothers, and they thought it was cool,but they told their mom about it, and their mom told my mom, and I got grounded for it.

But I was lucky that the flame never went into a can itself. It could have blown the can up in my hand like a hand grenade. And learned later from books that actual "flame throwers" dont work that way. They soak the target with flaming liquid. What I was doing was just making a crude blow torch (not quite the same thing).

^^^ the blowing up spray can thing is scary

That's what Mom said COULD HAVE HAPPENED!! !! !! at the time.

And I didn't then, and don't now doubt it.

Though this is the first time I have thought about it much in the last forty years! Lol!

I dunno. Maybe they could test that on Mythbusters. Seems logical that if you're spraying hairspray through a flame causing the spray to ignite into a bigger flame that the spray could act like a fuse on a stick of dynamite and could lead the flame into the can. And then BOOOM!

I thought up the idea when I was 13 without influence from Hollywood. In fact I should get royalties! Lol!

But I have no idea how they do it for films.

Maybe its not really as dangerous as mom and dad thought, and flames cant really enter the can, or the lack of oxigen in the can snuffs the flame before it can ignite the contents. Or maybe Hollywood uses specially made prop hair spray cans.

Good question.

About 15 years ago, not long after my diagnosis with Asperger's, I was trying to get out all my anger, frustration and hatred towards the entire world by destroying my own personal possessions, which I felt I was wrong and stupid for having, anyway. It got really bad when I decided to set a doll I had on fire because I just didn't want it any more. I was careful to put it in the laundry sink in the basement first so I could put it out with water, but I forgot about the smoke detector which went off and woke up my parents. They were very upset and concerned and were afraid to leave me in their house alone, so I ended up in the hospital. Again.

I was really messed up for quite some time before, during, and even after my diagnosis. I don't think I'm completely recovered, that I ever will be, and that anything might set me off again one day.

I threw batteries in it so they would explode.

i burn all my school papers at the end of each year.

it's not too stupid compared to everything else here but i often look stupid wondering why the damn thing won't stay lit...