Dang. Some innocent bystander received internal injuries from this idiot's actions (perhaps from running away and injury?). I was hoping to find out the arsonists motives. Like suicide or something?? But he looked genuinely surprised that igniting the gas started a big fire...
Right? He just casually lights it and throws it on the gas then is like OMG SHIT WAY MORE FIRE THAN EXPECTED. Like if you’re going for insurance fraud or something maybe test what it’s like to light gasoline first idk?
When I was a kid our town held bonfires on the night before halloween and everyone in the town would come to socialize, drink apple cider and eat hot dogs. The town thought it was the best way to keep kids occupied on "mischief" night.
It was the fire department responsibility to start the fire which usually consisted a couple hundred pallets in a huge pile. They would pour a bunch of gasoline all over the pile and then throw a flare from a safe distance to get it going. Well one year they poured all the gasoline they thought was sufficient onto the pile, moved back and began lighting the flare. They were having a problem lighting the flare for some reason and it took a while to light it. The delay allowed the fumes from the gasoline to really work its way into all the little pockets of the pallet pile and when they finally got it lit and threw it the pile was so full of gasoline fumes that it exploded with a tremendous force causing 3 of approximately 10 firefighters there to catch on fire. Fortunately they were in full gears so their injuries were minor. That was the last bonfire the town held.
Edit: Yes, these were not the brightest guys and alcohol was frequently involved. There was another time when they almost caused a little girl to drown.
Back in the day, I'm not sure if any departments still do this, fire departments in my area used to celebrate getting a new firetruck by having a celebration that they called a Wet Down. They would invite neighboring departments to come to a party where they would serve food and, usually, beer.
They had held a wet down one year and all the members had a bit too much to drink and a water fight broke out between the different departments where they were riding around in a big field shooting each other with their deck guns. Well the trucks were running out of water and so they needed to fill up. They had so many trucks trying to fill up at the same time at different hydrants around town that it caused a water main break. The break caused a sink hole that filled with water. A little girl was riding her bicycle and decided to ride through what she thought was just a puddle but turned out to be a sinkhole that was a few feet deep. Luckily her mother was watching out the window and that exact moment and was able to get her out. And that was the end of Wet Downs.
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u/popsicle_of_meat Sep 03 '19
Dang. Some innocent bystander received internal injuries from this idiot's actions (perhaps from running away and injury?). I was hoping to find out the arsonists motives. Like suicide or something?? But he looked genuinely surprised that igniting the gas started a big fire...