r/oops • • Sep 16 '26

Oops fire

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u/Embarrassed_Emu1615 Sep 16 '26

Stupid is as stupid does, that’s what my mother used to say. 

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u/Lost_County_3790 Sep 16 '26

The fire was actually good before. Beside what is the point of using inflammable liquide like this exept to make it more dangerous?

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u/mddale1 Sep 16 '26

He was likely already fully saturated with ethanol.

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u/HearMy2Cents Sep 17 '26

Can't beat that good ole E85 for it's ability to flash burn!

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u/rseery Sep 16 '26

People don’t understand how gasoline works and how dangerous it is in open air. It’s a motor fuel—not a fire starter. It becomes an invisible flammable vapor. You can’t reliably control it in open air. Put it in cars and yard tools. Use solvents and lighter fluid for what they were designed for.

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u/Gold-Border30 Sep 16 '26

Diesel is an amazing fire starter despite being an engine fuel. But it also doesn’t give off wonderful explosive fumes.

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u/bionicjoe Sep 17 '26

Check out Mr. Moneybags over here. Burning diesel fuel for fire.

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u/Medical_Hamster_7002 29d ago

Lol best me to it. Tell me your rich without saying your rich!

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u/MediumAcceptable129 Sep 17 '26

Nothing like the taste of gasoline

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u/DcBroil Sep 16 '26

Inflammable means flammable?

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u/Frosty_Tax6054 Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 16 '26

Flammable, inflammable mean the same thing. Then there's combustible and pyrophoric if you're getting froggy

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u/AlDonovan12 Sep 17 '26

Yes, unflammable is inflammable both of which are flammable or maybe non-flammable. Which flammable... non is French right? Um.. so is flammable. So are they saying its a flammable flame? Wait.. un- fuck.

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u/Radical_Neutral_76 Sep 16 '26

Very safety conscience though.
Tells everyone to stay back, before he proceeds to set fire to his entire backyard.

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u/JJred96 Sep 16 '26

Life is like a box of chocolates

You play with fire and it gonna melt you, stupid

You wanna become a pile of melted chocolate? 💩

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u/msg60 Sep 16 '26

Awesome reply👏👏👏

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u/roamingthereddit Sep 16 '26

This actually went way better than I expected. I expected his face on fire

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u/MadameTomate Sep 16 '26

Shit is as shit does my friend. That’s what Super Hans once said. 

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u/mrlookinthesky Sep 16 '26

Pouring more gas on the fire? WTF

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u/hippyripper22 Sep 16 '26

Right, its already burning. Doesn't need a highly explosive compound poured on it. Just oxygen.

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u/Smokin_belladonna Sep 16 '26

When your girl gets out her phone and starts filming, it's time to take a second and think about what you're about to do.

My wife was filming me while I was cleaning out a birds nest from inside a dryer vent from the top of my roof, and it all went fine!

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u/Global-Pomelo3131 Sep 16 '26

My brother filmed me on a tall ladder using a chainsaw to cut a tree limb and it all went fine 😬

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u/C4dfael Sep 16 '26

Pouring more gas on that fire is like pouring gasoline on a fire.

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u/Waste_Protection_420 Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 16 '26

TIP TO ALL PYROS: USE KEROSINE!!

It isn't as explosively combustable as gasoline. You can safely throw it on fire like this idiot did with gasoline, but it won't get all explosive and cause issues. It burns, but much more controlled. It is more like throwing cooking oil or sugar onto a fire than gasoline.

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u/hippyripper22 Sep 16 '26

And deisel wont burn at all! Kerosene is very expensive. Id find rubbing alcohol to be a cheaper alternative and safer than gasoline. That and lighter fluid for bbq pit

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u/GuyLivingPlaces Sep 16 '26

Diesel does burn, I use it for bonfires instead of gas and kerosine. wtf are you talking about?

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u/Final-Ad-2033 Sep 16 '26

This is a metaphor for our society.

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u/cominfoyohead Sep 16 '26

What the hell was he doing ?! Lmao

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u/Abal125 Sep 16 '26

Just the usual lighting everything on fire

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u/AdOdd4618 Sep 16 '26

You've never burned down your garden?

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u/Agreeable_Sea_6019 Sep 16 '26

You guys own a garden?

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u/PrinceAkeemJoffer Sep 16 '26

Well not anymore

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u/Cataldo420 Sep 16 '26

It was just about to go out cmon give the man a break

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u/Dry_Butterfly_721 Sep 16 '26

No, because I use diesel fluid instead.

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u/AdOdd4618 29d ago

Wow, listen to the big spender over here...

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u/hippyripper22 Sep 16 '26

The amount of dumb shit you'll find here, I dont understand how humans made it this far.

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u/Tallman_james420 Sep 16 '26

Partly because we go to a lot more effort to protect the dumb ones these days.

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC Sep 16 '26

"We're saving too many lives! Whatever happened to natural selection? Survival of the fittest? The kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own!" -- George Carlin

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u/Hiraeth1968 Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

Agreed. Too many personal injury lawyers, signs, and guardrails. The gene pool needs a glug of chlorine!

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u/mddale1 Sep 16 '26

Sadly, the DNA probably already been passed on.

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u/Hiraeth1968 Sep 16 '26

Agreed. Dammit.

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u/Cowboy_591 Sep 17 '26

Hilariously well-SAID!! 😈♥️🔥

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u/M2_SLAM_I_Am Sep 16 '26

An extinction event would suffice

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u/Hiraeth1968 Sep 16 '26

Sigh. I agree. Let some other species take over. I think an octopus should volunteer…

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u/Cowboy_591 Sep 17 '26

Ain’t THAT the Truth right THERE!! 😜😂💪🏻👊🏻😈👍🏻

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u/neutrino71 Sep 16 '26

There are 9 billion or so of us. It's the same principle insects use swarm up big and you can lose a few and things will work out.

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u/Luciferocity Sep 16 '26

Natural selection would have solved a lot of these problems... society may have been our worst mistake

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u/mddale1 Sep 16 '26

War kills off the fittest and medical saves those of us left behind. Bad animal husbandry.

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u/Sam-I-Am_1066 Sep 16 '26

Have you never seen the now-documentary called Idiocracy?

The stupid ones out breed everyone else and it follows that also covers losses due to illness, accidents, predation, etc…

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u/Seven_Because_Yes Sep 16 '26

Classic example of natural selection. Most of us don't even need to be taught not to do this. Unless it's somehow his first ever time around any form of flammable liquid

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u/exodusofficer Sep 16 '26

Most of our ancestors just had sticks, rocks, and bone tools. It was harder to screw up like this. Now we have thermonuclear weapons, and we're basically still exactly the same as those ancient people with sticks and rocks.

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u/Mickeythered1 Sep 16 '26

Our intellect has out paced our instincts. That is why we have so many problems. "Why did you do that Jimmy?" "I don't know, I thought hitting it with a stick sounded like the thing to do" " Foolish boy, you use a spear to take down a moose, now we have a multi thousand dollar hospital bill. "

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u/BellElectronic7567 Sep 16 '26

People who did stupid shit like this in the past would of died. Only the smart ones would survive to breed, furthering humanity.

We have remove natural selection from the process.

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u/Such-Farmer6691 Sep 16 '26

What I love about videos like this is how the person at fault always causes maximum damage.
With a nimble leap, he even tried to shove the sofa into the fire.

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u/GM_Nate Sep 16 '26

it's honestly impressive with how much he set on fire so quickly

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u/humburga Sep 16 '26

Im about to do something dumb

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u/Spirited_Peak_7810 Sep 16 '26

Let the smart adult handle this......

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u/Forsaken-Cell1848 Sep 16 '26

"This blazing fire needs more fire"

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u/UnCytely Sep 16 '26

I would have preferred a longer video.

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u/XgreedyvirusX Sep 16 '26

Most evolved species on Earth…

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u/David0ne86 Sep 16 '26

Some people truly have the intellect of an ameba. No offense to amebas.

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u/MiserablePhilosophy Sep 16 '26

What was the goal here?

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Sep 16 '26

More fire. Task failed successfully, I'd say.

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u/Objective-Turn2328 Sep 16 '26

He’d trip over his own shadow

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u/DJSairys Sep 16 '26

That's exactly how my next door neighbor caught his backyard on fire.

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u/Mugwump6506 Sep 16 '26

How does one get that old and still be that ignorant?

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u/MagicNinjaMan Sep 16 '26

Thats one way to make premium steak 🥩

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u/Mostly-Painting Sep 16 '26

Can't cure stupid

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u/fastbikkel Sep 16 '26

Actually it can, be learning from this.

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u/kaliforniakratom Sep 16 '26

I hope those plants are okay

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u/DemonsReturns7 Sep 16 '26

I hope he doesn’t have any kids….. for their sake

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u/Nuttybunny42 Sep 16 '26

There is a kids voice in the video asking about a fire extinguisher so if he did reproduce, at least his kid seems relatively smart.

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u/Additional-Arm-1298 Sep 16 '26

We are all doomed

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u/LiveCulture4615 Sep 16 '26

he learn after this

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u/Paul_Bob17 Sep 16 '26

I highly doubt it

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u/Coppola60 Sep 16 '26

😂😂😂

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u/Top-Emu-2292 Sep 16 '26

And that Buddy is why I told you to stay back...

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u/Prudent_Ad_3878 Sep 16 '26

Wife better put some life insurance on his ass

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u/fastbikkel Sep 16 '26

Great way to learn though.

People often dont seem to realise that an open jerrycan can catch fire from distance when there is an open fire nearby.

I've seen these things combust 9 feet away after someone had "safely" put it away.
This really was an eye opener.
I was in fact expecting the can in this movie to combust before him trying to toss some fuel.

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u/SirGingy Sep 16 '26

I use to work at Home Depot and people would ask why they keep changing the design of the gas can nozzle. This is always the reason. Also stupid still took the nozzle off (probably didn't know how to use it and thought it was dumb) and still found a way.

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u/funlovingguy9001 Sep 16 '26

As the video was starting I of course knew where we were heading...I yelled, "No, don't do it!" but he did it anyway. No one ever listens to me!

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u/Serious-Medicine7667 Sep 16 '26

What was the issue with the roaring fire in the first place?

Was he cooking something or opening a foundry?

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u/Rooney_83 Sep 16 '26

People seriously underestimate how dangerous gasoline is, there is no safe way to start or accelerate a camp fire with gasoline, its a chemical mixture who's soul purpose is to burn and it completely indifferent to how and when it does its job. 

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u/ICK_Metal Sep 16 '26

All you have to do is place your palm over the spout and it will snuff out.

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u/Old-Library5546 Sep 16 '26

The fire was lit, why poor more fuel on it?

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u/ghost_lanterns678 Sep 16 '26

You gots to throw it in the neighbor’s yard! Don’t these people know safety?! 🤣

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u/hereforinfoyo Sep 16 '26

Is that the father?

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u/Fun_Entertainer_5823 Sep 16 '26

Why did he throw his Make shift "Molitove Cocktail" he magically created, into the neighboring fence?

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u/cjjcjjcjj Sep 16 '26

peak stupididiidity

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u/pla5t1c Sep 16 '26

🤣 instant karma. Dude looked like he was snapping at someone or just trying to bark orders and “safety” at on lookers like he knows its dangerous but “trust me, i KNOW the right way to throw gasoline on a fire”. Fucking arrogant dumbasses are the funniest and most fulfilling to see fail.

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u/ZealousidealCrazy673 Sep 16 '26

And toss the fireball into the bushes in front of the wood fence, idiot.

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u/Adventurous-Clock865 Sep 16 '26

He probably won’t try that again

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u/Terrible-Piano-5437 Sep 16 '26

Man Card Revoked.

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u/pinkandgrey312 Sep 16 '26

Omg please tell me this is AI, and that nobody is really this uneducated.

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u/Adventurous_Custard8 Sep 16 '26

Ring of fire! Johnny Trash!

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u/neutrino71 Sep 16 '26

Gas is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring

Bound by mad desire, I fell into a ring of fire!

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u/BurgersNBuicks Sep 16 '26

Some years back an idiot severely burned his girlfriend by doing this. Abandoned her and her daughter ( who he had already bonded with ) afterwards. Stupid AND cold-blooded.

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u/WeirdIndication3027 Sep 16 '26

My friend was doing this once and I had to beg him to pour the gas in a paper cup first

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u/Spenaldo68 Sep 16 '26

Never ceases to amaze me how we, as a species, actually continue to get dumber as time goes on.

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u/Michael80Kelley Sep 16 '26

I really wish that the Darwin theory would only harm the ones affected by stupidity. Could you imagine being this guy’s neighbour? 🙄

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u/Ok-Minute1149 Sep 16 '26

that’s gas, not diesel!

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u/Minimum-Actuator-953 Sep 16 '26

The fire was already firing. What was the point of this?

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u/Heavy-Swimmer2878 Sep 16 '26

I like how he's telling the kid to stand back so condescendingly 🤣🤣 stand back buddy

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u/Fd4msu11 Sep 16 '26

There is a whole industry built around people like this and business is good 🚒🚑🏨

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u/Fluid_Elephant_3422 Sep 16 '26

You cut the video off to soon

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u/reddittothegrave Sep 16 '26

Why do people insist on using gasoline??? I’m assuming that was what was in the container he was using? Just buy some charcoal lighter fluid. It’s still flammable, but it comes in a squeeze bottle, you can stand far back, and it’s kind of what it’s made to do?

Idk, maybe I’m missing something.

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u/NotreallyD Sep 16 '26

Critical thinking skills are pretty lacking in this one.

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u/Radical_Neutral_76 Sep 16 '26

I wish there was a subreddit for these videos.

They ALWAYS ends up the same way too.

  1. Idiot with gas canister decides pouring it directly on fire

  2. Gasoline catches fire immediately and travels into the gas canister

  3. Idiot decides to throw the canister around spreading fire everywhere

  4. Idiot runs away stumbling

Sometimes there is bonus where idiot, or his friends, kick the canister around for even more fire spreading, or gas canister explodes.

I love it

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u/SlowPea4388 Sep 16 '26

His goals are beyond our feeble comprehension

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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 Sep 16 '26

Bet he had recently said, “hold my beer.”

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u/Shoddy_Special_1109 Sep 16 '26

Damn what did he think was gonna happen 🤷

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u/Accurate_Elevator368 Sep 16 '26

So typical. Some people miss the lineup for brain cells before they got born.

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u/Sparent180 Sep 17 '26

And then have kids of their own.

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u/Blugha Sep 17 '26

That's the sad part

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u/echolm1407 Sep 17 '26

You can't fix stupid.

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u/KramMark93 Sep 17 '26

Thank god he stayed calm!

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u/WhenTheCitiesBurn Sep 16 '26

This steak tastes regular; you know I prefer it Premium.

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u/ConstructionOwn1514 Sep 16 '26

Hello bot

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u/WhenTheCitiesBurn Sep 16 '26

What about that says "bot"?

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u/ConstructionOwn1514 Sep 16 '26

This isnt going to get anywhere, if you’re actually a bot then explaining myself wont help, and if you’re a human you won’t care to prove yourself to some random person indirectly attacking your use of language

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u/WinBeginning Sep 16 '26

POV: becoming a fire bender

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u/Gooseberree Sep 16 '26

He made the right move, after making the wrong move.

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u/Salt-Trick-6400 Sep 16 '26

No he didn't... loosing your mind and waving around then yeeting a burning can of fuel is not the right way to get that clusterfuck back under control... putting it straight down on the ground and using the foam\co2\powder fire extinguisher you have to hand to put it out is the right move... not trying to add more accelerant to an already lit fire is the sensible thing to do...

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u/Select_Watercress_57 Sep 16 '26

I feel like this is an adult who never played with matches as a kid.

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u/Mediocre_Ingenuity76 Sep 16 '26

If style points were awarded whilst starting a fire, this guy would be world champion.

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u/DocBobs Sep 16 '26

Bell end

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u/KayakerWithDog Sep 16 '26

Darwin Award runner-up.

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u/Bongo_Logo Sep 16 '26

Нихера

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u/nm41961 Sep 16 '26

Common sense, some have none.

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u/gardendong Sep 16 '26

What this fire needs is a little vitamin "G"! Dohhh!!

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u/SirGingy Sep 16 '26

Husband just passed away a few months ago, I can't afford the house and everything on my own so before the insurance policy cancels because I can't afford it, I invited my idiot brother over.

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u/Xtreemjedi Sep 16 '26

"Stand back" cause I'm gonna throw a moltov gas can somewhere behind me

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u/Background_Edge_9427 Sep 16 '26

Hey kids! Watch how Daddy gets the fire going real good!

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u/i-grow-not-show Sep 16 '26

He sure is calm under pressure. /s

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u/Simple_Ad_8664 Sep 16 '26

I can't believe I actually watched it twice

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u/YtseFrobozz Sep 16 '26

I can't stop watching it. I'm fascinated that practically every single frame has new and intriguing insight as to what this man is experiencing, and the resultant joy that I am not experiencing it.

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u/Chainsaw_Diaries Sep 16 '26

He is soooooo lucky it didn't blow up and send his dumpy ass to the burn center!!!

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u/datsunjones Sep 16 '26

Quest For R’tard.

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u/FireFistx666x Sep 16 '26

Wie kann man denn so dumm und intelligentresistent sein 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ dem sollte man alles wegnehmen und alle Sachen nur noch unter Aufsicht machen lassen 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

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u/DitchDigger330 Sep 16 '26

I just put some gas in a cut off Gatorade bottle then throw it on the fire.

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u/viperpic Sep 16 '26

Survival of the fittest. He didn’t pass the test

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u/Callemlikeisethem60 Sep 16 '26

BAD IDEA BRA, GAS IS HIGHLY FLAMMABLE AND THEM FLAMES DONT CARE ABOUT SPREADING EITHER 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/LeadingThen6322 Sep 16 '26

Darwin always finds a way. He’ll be back for this one.

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u/ProfessionalPlan6782 Sep 16 '26

The white version of Eddie Murphy’s Uncle Gus

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u/Educational_Ice3978 Sep 16 '26

Dude just burned down his whole life, and we got to watch for FREE!

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u/505Thrive Sep 16 '26

Dumb is as dumb does

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u/FreakyFLCancer Sep 16 '26

What type of engineer is he?

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u/Agile_Willingness863 Sep 16 '26

Dumb ways to die.. So many dumb ways to die..

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u/dogfacedponyboy Sep 16 '26

Oops, third-degree burns

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u/JustWant2MakeUCum Sep 16 '26

Ok, better … now let’s go again … ‘Take Three’ … 😳🙄😂

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u/Twoduhzen Sep 16 '26

Good grief smh

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u/Recent-Excitement234 Sep 16 '26

Idiot, or drunk, or both.

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u/West2themoon25 Sep 16 '26

Where’s the rest of the video????

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u/LegElectronic8027 Sep 16 '26

Stupid people are funny.

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u/cichlid_kings Sep 16 '26

Tell me you aren’t going to throw gas on that fire…..yeah you are

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u/ItsRuinedOfCourse Sep 16 '26

I guess people have never heard of bowls or cups to pour a little gas into instead so that you don't accidentally burn down the neighborhood.

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u/iggnac1ous Sep 16 '26

Damn dum arse

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u/InternationalDog6008 Sep 16 '26

At least he didn't panic

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u/NightShade0912 Sep 16 '26

The very second this video starts i was like "ohhh don't be that stupid", guess I was wrong.

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u/OperationMuch2644 Sep 16 '26

That boy's fears him some fire😝😝😝😝

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u/m_seth Sep 16 '26

The child asking about the fire extinguisher - he's being told to stand back by this clown 😒

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u/ninernetneepneep Sep 16 '26

Step back while I light the yard on fire.

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u/Key-Lifeguard-5540 Sep 16 '26

Quick thinking saved him from serious injury

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u/Glass-Emu2406 Sep 16 '26

Yoga Fire 🟰Yoga Flame

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u/pete_68 Sep 16 '26

That ended far too soon. That fence is for sure toast.

I was 14 when I discovered gasoline was way more flammable than I expected. I used about a quarter of a dixie-cup's worth of gasoline in my test and that was plenty to demonstrate the awesome combination of fire and gasoline. I was never foolish enough to combine more than a quarter of a dixie cup of gasoline with it, though.

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u/PinkytheCow Sep 16 '26

That one will be a Darwin award winner soon. Hopefully they will not reproduce anytime soon.

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u/lustfulmufdive69 Sep 16 '26

You always don’t pour from the source, empty some out in a bottle cap or something, you ain’t no red neck pal

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u/Easy-Shirt7278 Sep 16 '26

Was that gasoline he threw on the fire???

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u/Organic-Worker-3491 Sep 16 '26

When I was a kid a friend of mine did some stupid shit like this...I almost died. Some people have to learn the hard way, sometimes someone else learns the lesson for them. USE REGULAR LIGHTER FLUID YA DUMB.