LOL @ this thread.
One of my friends back in MD had a cat that set herself on fire. His fiance had lit a few candles and put them around the apartment they were living in. The cat is a very long haired cat and decided that it wanted to jump up on top of the speaker system. The cat saw the candle, sniffed it a few times, then proceded to lay down around it. Needless to say, the cat was running around the apartment meowing a few seconds after that. Her entire tail had gone up in flames and she was doing laps. They got the cat extinguished eventually and she's ok (only the fur was really burned). I felt sorry for the cat, but it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.