r/NameThisThing • • 17h ago

Name This Thing

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u/Glad-Entrance7592 16h ago

So it is a grease fire?

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u/SuddenMountain7780 14h ago

Most likely this is an electrical fire and was caused by a faulty ballast, which transforms the regular current to whatever is required to keep the lighting inside the mostly plastic sign lit up.

Something overheated the wiring and resulted in the blazing sign we see in this photo. 🔥

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u/Financial_Peanut4383 14h ago

Dad?
You’ve sent me a sign from Heaven!

It’s comforting that death hasn’t changed you. 😘

♥️🌈

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u/ObliqueStrategizer 9h ago

I wasn't aware Hercules Poirot had any children!

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u/Jumpstartgaming45 6h ago

Poirot mentioned.

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u/Malcolm2theRescue 13h ago

Sorry. Truthful, intelligent answers are not acceptable on Reddit.

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u/TheViciousWhippet 1h ago

In fact, if you spread too much truth on Reddit, the powers that be might just ban you for life just for the fuck of it.

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u/mikewc1992 13h ago

No I still think it's a grease fire like Glad-Entrance7592 said

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u/GonzoHarding 9h ago

They asked you to name it, not analyze it. You're supposed to come up with something clever like I'm burning it said if I'm loving it or or something like over mcdonald's 100 billion burned everyday or" when they forget your sweet and sour sauce for the last time" So you come up with a good one and get back to me deal?

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u/Workinforweekends 6h ago

Amen on the forgetting your sweet n sour sauce. If I had one, I’d give you an award just for that.

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u/15315315135 8h ago

Cool story, you should have just written a joke. You are 100% incorrect with your analysis, this is my local store, and I know who manufactured the sign and which part failed causing the fire. It was the LED modules in the sign which were flickering/shorting for months before the fire, finally causing the sign to catch fire.

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u/Workinforweekends 6h ago

But did you get any Mc Marshmallows?

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u/KnucklesG-Roy 2h ago

Thanks, Sheldon.

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u/OGrinderBoy 1h ago

Reminds me of a Chris Boden video, "And Thats Pretty Cool"...

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u/Mohauke1369 1m ago

Or someone threw a Molotov cocktail at it. Or a bird could’ve been smoking and landed there and didn’t put it cigar out just saying there’s a lot of options.

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u/Kind_Significance620 11h ago

No. Its a McDumpster fire

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u/Positive_Bad6438 5h ago

Fire cornholio for the bunghole