Florida Man Sets Home On Fire While Cleaning Foot

[marmar]

Posted: 7:44 am EDT June 17, 2011
Updated: 8:31 am EDT June 17, 2011


FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- Officials say a Florida Panhandle man set fire to his home while trying to clean an infection on his foot.

The Fort Walton Beach Fire Department reports that the man told deputies he was sitting on his bed, using rubbing alcohol to clean his foot Wednesday morning. His lit cigarette came into contact with the flammable liquid and set his sheets on fire. He removed the bedding and ran to get a fire extinguisher, but the flames grew out of control while he was gone.

The man and several other people in the home were able to get out and call 911. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.wftv.com/news/28268323/detail.html

[FLPanhandle]

1. FDA issues another new warning picture for cigarette packages.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. Might be a good idea. Smoking materials kill a lot of people that way, sadly.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Here's my own not so successful attempt at being a news photographer.

The building behind us caught on fire from some dumb-ass smoking on the back porch.

The dingbat admitted she accidentally started the fire, put it out, or so she though, and then went back to bed. (she apparently never took the "keep your trap shut" class)

[meow mix]

2. ...

:o

[Dappleganger]

3. My state never disappoints with teh crazy.

[Obamanaut]

9. With stories like this, it is hard for us to defend ourselves.

[Dappleganger]

13. We can at least say we moved here for the lulz.

[daggahead]

4. Seems like a good way to get rid of a house you can't sell ... n/t

[mike_c]

5. there's a lesson in this story somewhere....

I just know there is. :rofl:

Glad everyone made it out OK though.

[JVS]

6. There was this episode of Oprah or Maury (back in the pre-paternity days)...

where they had victims of horribly disfiguring burns on. One of them was a fashion model and after tanning, she would go inside and put an alcohol-water mix on her skin in order to cool down more quickly. Well one day, she seemed to have miscalculated the ratio of alcohol to water and after rubbing herself down she had a smoke and she burned everywhere.

Gotta be careful with those smokes.

[Crankie Avalon]

7. Jeb Bush, is that you? nt

[eilen]

8. And people wonder how Rick Scott got elected..... nt

[damntexdem]

10. Hey, if he moves on to cleaning his leg, ...

go directly to your bomb shelter and plan to stay there. ;-)

[edbermac]

11. Sounds like he was drinking rubbing alcohol, not putting it on his foot.

:beer:

[backscatter712]

12. Important safety tip: don't smoke while handling flammable things...

Not too bright.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. And keep solvents and other flammable things away from water heaters and..

... other appliances with flames.

We had a guy, at the car dealership where I worked, set the whole locker room floor on fire. The dingbat decided he would clean the floor with some de-greaser. When he got near the water heater, the whole place went up. He was running across the service department with his feet on fire leaving flaming foot tracks.