What not to do.

[pray4mojo]

looked like it couldve been a lot worse

 

[BudAshes]

That was pretty fucking stupid dude. Sorry to be mean but damn, why would you do that? Did you not realize they were still hot?

 

[Sea Moose]

your moms gonna kill you

1) You were smoking
2) you were playing with matches
3) you nearly burnt the house down


yeah, your moms gonna open you can of smack down

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Originally posted by: edro
Just seems like bad luck to me...

How did you know it was in flames? Did you smell it? See the flames out the window? Get woken up by neighbor?

I smelled it thru my bedroom window, and after i peered down at it from the balconey I could see flames standing a few feet tall.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Originally posted by: BudAshes
That was pretty fucking stupid dude. Sorry to be mean but damn, why would you do that? Did you not realize they were still hot?

No, when I put the ashes in the pot i thought they were out. They smoldered for 3 days before stoking up to a real fire.

 

[SludgeFactory]

Good thing you discovered it when you did.

And ouch, that's gotta hurt.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: Cerpin Taxt

Originally posted by: BudAshes
That was pretty fucking stupid dude. Sorry to be mean but damn, why would you do that? Did you not realize they were still hot?

No, when I put the ashes in the pot i thought they were out. They smoldered for 3 days before stoking up to a real fire.

Yeah, that's why you always poor water on ashes. Not trying to bust your balls though. At least now you know for the future.

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: Cerpin Taxt
From the other side of the fence.

So not only did you try burning your house down to warm up the planet, you had to go and put a radiator heater outside to also cause more global warming? How's it working heating the outdoors?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Originally posted by: compman25

Originally posted by: Cerpin Taxt
From the other side of the fence.

So not only did you try burning your house down to warm up the planet, you had to go and put a radiator heater outside to also cause more global warming? How's it working heating the outdoors?

Ha! Yeah, I wondered if anyone would say something about that. I brought out the space heater to block the gap between the fence and the house because I'm dog-sitting for my sister today. Thats what the flower pots were doing before I melted them down on accident.

 

[Sea Moose]

I dont think it was stupid... it was an accident, shit happens.

Its only stupid if you do it again, and not learn from the mistake

 

[angminas]

:thumbsup: for having the courage to tell us about it.

As we see, any unattended fire of any size is extremely dangerous, mostly due to the stealth / unpredictablility / daring escape / didn't expect that factor. Ironically, the seemingly harmless ashes were much more dangerous than a real fire would have been.

A fire you're done with and will no longer be attending should be treated like a black mamba. If it's not super-ultra-mega dead as disco, it's still deadly. Usually not even to the person who lit the fire, but to others who had nothing to do with it.

 

[dbk]

damn dude... hope everything works out

 

[Zim Hosein]

You are one lucky person Cerpin Taxt! :Q

 

[n7]

Very lucky...this could have ended far worse :Q

 

[rockyct]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
It's just a flesh wound


:thumbsup: for the :camera:'s


a few months ago my daughter had a bon fire party in the back yard
just before going to bed, i went out to check the fire, looked like it was completely out, so i put a log in the middle of the fire pit for next time
next morning, the log was burning away, sometime during the night it got hot enough from coals under the ashes (presumably) to start back up


gotta put out fire the way smoky bear and boy scouts do it

Summary: Put out a campfire completely and make sure that the coals on the bottom have cooled. Learn how to put out a campfire from an Eagle Scout in this free camping video.

http://www.ehow.com/video_4957...put-out-campfire.html#

Ahh, boy scouts. It brings back memories on my first campout where the older scouts almost started a forest fire in the SoCal wilderness (the type you always see burning on the news).

The dads were hanging out a hundred yards away and some scouts thought it would be a great idea to start a fire in the fire pit residing right underneath a partially dead oak tree. The flames got to about 8 feet (maybe another four feet to the tree branches) before a dad saw it and came running over. The boys who started it lost their fire starting card or whatever.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
It's just a flesh wound


:thumbsup: for the :camera:'s


a few months ago my daughter had a bon fire party in the back yard
just before going to bed, i went out to check the fire, looked like it was completely out, so i put a log in the middle of the fire pit for next time
next morning, the log was burning away, sometime during the night it got hot enough from coals under the ashes (presumably) to start back up


gotta put out fire the way smoky bear and boy scouts do it

Summary: Put out a campfire completely and make sure that the coals on the bottom have cooled. Learn how to put out a campfire from an Eagle Scout in this free camping video.

http://www.ehow.com/video_4957...put-out-campfire.html#

as an eagle scout, i just piss on it.

 

[MrDudeMan]

<--- burned down about 50% of a house doing almost exactly what the OP did. Granted, I was 5 years old, but it made the local papers!

 

[eits]

lol i wish i could have see this

 

[TheVrolok]

Phew, close call. Good thing you were still up. Lesson learned I suppose, and now you know hot to make a fire bundle and transport it around!

 

[Eli]

LOL.. Wow.. That's crazy. :Q

Noted.

lol

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: Cerpin Taxt

Originally posted by: BudAshes
That was pretty fucking stupid dude. Sorry to be mean but damn, why would you do that? Did you not realize they were still hot?

No, when I put the ashes in the pot i thought they were out. They smoldered for 3 days before stoking up to a real fire.

Did you not realize smoldering is bad...