BBQ + Petrol = .......

[bobspud]

I was wandering into the house chuckling to myself on Friday night when the neighbour (bianchiman) asked why I was laughing manically. I showed him my singed arm and pointed at the chiminea. If you pour lighter fluid down the chimney bit, the flames shoot up the chimney in a sort of flamey mushroom cloud this lighting your sleeve and taking all the hair off your arms and hands.

It's been a while since I burned my own fur off! good effort

[NotAllThere]

Real engineers use LOX.

Note, add LOX to BBQ - don't soak coals in LOX then apply flame...

[Old Hack]

Why were you dumb enough to do it while still wearing them!!!!

I was 15 and was told by someone I trusted that was what I had to do.

Why was I dumb enough to trust him, well, he was an older brother.

Did I trust him after that? No.

[ChrisPackit]

You men should be ashamed of yourselves not being able to properly construct a fire a la 'Ray Mears'. Everyone knows you must start with rubbing two sticks together for an hour...... and only then can you resort to using diesel to get it going.

[Lockhouse]

I did something similar once (when I was much younger). I was burning some particularly stubborn rubbish and decided to slosh some petrol on to speed it up a bit. Not wanting to get burned I stood about ten feet away and chucked some petrol from the can onto the fire. Cue a ten foot line of flame coming back from the fire straight towards yours truly.

I just managed to chuck the can away but lost the hair on both of my arms in the process.

[EternalOptimist]

I never burned myself with petrol, but I did fire a rocket from a fence pole one bonfire night. I put the pole on my shoulder like a bazooka and my brother lit the rocket at the back

it took months for my eyebrows to grow back

[Mupps]

This isn't unusual stupidity.

I once had an old milk churn which had had some petrol in it. I stood over the top and dropped lit matches in...

Cue a massive whoosh, a night in hospital and no eyebrows for a few weeks.

I was 6 years old, but not yet an engineer.

[Mupps]

[QUOTE=EternalOptimist;1551591]I never burned myself with petrol, but I did fire a rocket from a fence pole one bonfire night. I put the pole on my shoulder like a bazooka and my brother lit the rocket at the back

Did anyone ever read about the guy in Australia who lit a thunderflash (or whatever they are called) and wedged it between his butt cheeks?

it all went horribly wrong for him...

[EternalOptimist]

[QUOTE=Mupps;1551594]

I never burned myself with petrol, but I did fire a rocket from a fence pole one bonfire night. I put the pole on my shoulder like a bazooka and my brother lit the rocket at the back

Did anyone ever read about the guy in Australia who lit a thunderflash (or whatever they are called) and wedged it between his butt cheeks?

it all went horribly wrong for him...

wrecked him

blooming near killed him

[TimberWolf]

[QUOTE=Mupps;1551594]

I never burned myself with petrol, but I did fire a rocket from a fence pole one bonfire night. I put the pole on my shoulder like a bazooka and my brother lit the rocket at the back

Did anyone ever read about the guy in Australia who lit a thunderflash (or whatever they are called) and wedged it between his butt cheeks?

it all went horribly wrong for him...

That's a step up from throwing petrol on a fire. Easy step for some, incomprehensible to others.