Man cleans with gasoline while smoking

[Ian David]

By The Associated Press
April 08, 2009

CHILTON, Wis. -- A man faces an arson charge after telling authorities he wasn't thinking when he decided to use gasoline for cleaning up his apartment, and then tossed a lit cigarette into a pile of gas-soaked cushions and clothes. A criminal complaint filed Monday quoted a 47-year-old man as saying he knew gasoline is flammable and never should have used it.

The complaint said that when the fire began Friday, he didn't pull the fire alarm but instead shouted "fire" a couple times and walked to the Menasha police department for an ambulance to take him to the hospital where he was treated for burns.

Firefighters said the blaze extensively damaged the apartment and caused heavy smoke damage throughout the building, putting tenants of 11 other units out of their homes.

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[graywarrior]

1. Sounds like an episode for Rescue Me

Can you say "arson?"

[KittyWampus]

2. Neighbor here lit a cigarette in his basement where he was stripping paint....

[Junkdrawer]

3. From an earlier post...

He used a match

To check his tank

That's why they call him

Skinless Frank

Burma Shave

[Historic NY]

4. And we worry about terrorists........seriously.

[pipi_k]

10. I agree! It takes lots of

people, time, and planning to pull off an organized terror attack.


Stupid only needs one idiot and about ten minutes.


Way more dangerous...

[FirstLight]

5. An Honorable Mention...

from the Darwin Awards!

sheesh! someone should check his meds, eh?

[Democracyinkind]

6. A photo-finish for the Darwin Awards. He almost won this years awards.

..better luck next time.

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[rurallib]

7. What in the hell would you clean with gas in an apartment?

Inside an apartment?

[Ian David]

9. Maybe an oil spill from his motorcycle? n/t

[Mopar151]

13. Nasty ass kitchen floor...

I kew a freeper slumlord who bragged about doing this in one of his rental units! He did have enuff animal cunning to shut off the pilot lights on the stove.

[KittyWampus]

11. I could vaguely understand if someone was using gasoline to polish furniture.

[WI_DEM]

12. Yeah, I guess even here in WI we have our idiots.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. You just know he figured that silly fru-fru stuff they sell to wemons wasn't no way to git his

apartment clean. He needed some MAN cleaning stuff. Windex and Pine-Sol? That stuff is for sissies.


BOOM.

[RamboLiberal]

15. Last week's idiot tried to pull a prank on friend at gas pump with lighter

PHOENIX -- Courtney Moran said she has seen the video of an explosion at a Chandler gas station that nearly killed her, her fiancé and their 18-month-old daughter, but can not fully grasp that it is her on the television screen.

"It's still not real to me," Moran said. "I watch the video and go, 'Oh my gosh, that's us.'"

Moran and her fiancé, Jacob Marion, were at a Chandler gas station just a few days ago. Moran and their 18-month-old daughter, Emerie, were in the back seat of their car, while Marion was pumping gas.

Marion's friend, Micah Mosley, came out of the gas station's convenience store after having bought a pack of cigarettes. Mosley was playing with his lighter, Marion said.

"(He was) just joking around, so I told him to stop," Marion said. "I tried to hit it out of his hands, so the flame would go out. Right when I started to move my hand, it just exploded right in my face."

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