Stupidity

[MazKid]

People, melted plastic is not good on skin.

My friend got a front lip for his Integra so we painted it, then got pizza, then went back to his house to cut the bumper for it and put it on. Another friend was there so we were all having fun...he has a bit of a mosquito problem so I requested that the bug repellant candles be brought out. Well I was rather bored so I start burning sticks just for the hell of it. No problem. The other friend starts doing it too, then the guy actually working on the bumper gets done cutting the bottom of the bumper off. So we put it on the driveway and light it ablaze...wasn't doing much so the other friend got a can of de-icer or something and sprayed it. So it was burning better and we were "writing" on the driveway with the stuff and it would burn. Neato. So then for whatever reason the first friend pushes the bumper part onto the grass and goes back to work...the other friend sprayed it more and got it on fire more, big deal, the grass is wet. Then out of nowhere he grabs a gas can and pours some on the burning bumper part(yeah, and gas prices are how much?!) and it not only goes up more, a small patch of grass is on fire and the fire goes up the stream and nearly into the gas can. I run for cover, then see the friend blowing on it and he gets the fire to go out on the gas can, and quickly sets it down. So now we're just watching the fire. No problem. The first friend looks at it and freggin kicks part of the cut bumper towards me, and I feel pain on my left arm and right hand, I start saying "What the hell ahhhhhhh" and he does similar, I look down and see melted plastic stuck to my arm and hand. On the arm it actually burned a layer of skin clear off and didn't hurt terribly much...the one on the hand hit the heel of the hand. That one burned into the skin and as I look at it now is a blister. Hurt like all hell. I run in the house and put my hand under water...I couldn't believe how bad it hurt...it was actually making me feel sick it hurt so bad. The friend that kicked it had some land on his first finger, right between the nail and skin, so he was in pain, and it went all over his shirt.

So the moral of the story is that if you light a meltable material on fire, let it burn and don't freggin kick it as a joke because it's not too damn funny when you're holding your arm and hand bent over in devestating pain over something so damn stupid.

[thegreatelbobo]

This is one of those things I don't ever have to learn by experience. Solder hurts bad enough

[Kevin]

You'll find you do less stupid things as you get older.. hopefully. This story reminds me of an ex's brother who lit a gas can on fire and nearly set himself on fire. Live and learn.

[Marc93lx]

Fire is fun.

[mazdaboy1974]

Woah that sucks i burned myself with hot plastic and i can say it hurts I know i had 2nd degree burns b/c i was burning garbage one day and a aerosol can was in there and exploded and sprayed plastic on the back of my leg .

[midnightblue97]

jesus h, i learned to be cautious while playing with fire when I was like 10.

[D323]

Actually water was the wrong thing to put on the burn. Believe it or not you should have used tooth paste.

Oh and sounds similar to stupid shiat I have done long ago in the past.

[P-rotege]

My friend tried to blow fire and lit his face on fire. I laughed so hard I fell through a screen door trying to get some water for him. He burned off his eyebrows and part of his hair, and his face was bright red for a couple days, no tissue damage though, thankfully.

I have had my share of stupidity with fire, but I stopped before I got burned.

An old pyro friend of mine, Paul lit himself on fire and filmed it, his clothes went up in flames and burned the crap out of him. He got third degree burns all up his arm and leg. If anyone has seen the "kill-horse" skate video then you have seen the part where he does this near the end. Crazy ass S.O.B.

[Marc93lx]

I used to be notorious for playing with fire. I still do, like I said, fire is fun. Just be carful lol.

A friend and I were walking around his neighborhood once and found a huge ass bonfire at the golf course behind his house. They were burning brush. I found an aresol can lying close by and threw it in. A few seconds later it goes, BOOOM! **** was soo cool. So I said; "Let's go back to your house and get some more of these". We filled a paper sack full of all the aresol cans we could find ranging from cleaning products to carb cleaner and went back to the fire. I think we had at least eight can's in that bag. I threw that **** in there and we ran like hell and just waited. A little later you hear an enourmous KABOOOOOOOOM associated with a giant fireball followed by a mushroom cloud. This was at like 3am mind you. That was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Went walked back to the fire to inspect the damage. There were logs in the fire, Id say at least 8-12in in diameter that were now located on the other side of the fire than they were moments before.

[Kevin]

I quit playing with fire (aside from smoking) after I destroyed the finish on a $1300 dollar desktop. For some reason, a soda can with the top cut off is not an adviseable 'mini-furnace' for your confidential documents.

Following is an illustration of this mini-furnace, and for the record, this is the result of years of optimum dental care (yes, i bit the top off the pepsi can with my teeth just to illustrate this point)

Kevin

[MazKid]

Well the gas can was just dumb, but becides that the rest was pretty safe until my friend kicked the plastic at me.

I like fire too...use to burn hotwheels and 1/18 scale models...start the fire in the engine bay and see if it ended up realistic or not...surprisingly a scale model burns pretty realistically...

The blister on my hand looks like it's going to explode soon, lol. Freggin huge and yellow...mmmm.

[Tazman2]

Silly kids!

[lscrx]

ouch... and I thought I was stupid burning myself on a hot brake rotor

[*PL*]

The title of this thread reflects well the situation described

[MazKid]

That was the purpose.