Children, never play with gasoline.

[theoldwolf]

Seen from Payson, Utah on Saturday, February 12th, 2011.

I could see the flames from 5 miles away. I drive to the West hills to investigate.


Uh oh, doesn't look good.


House is fully involved.


The next day, we took a Sunday drive to see the aftermath. A 14-year-old kid was using a cup of gasoline to get video of "flame effects" in the back yard. The flames spread to the gas can, and then to the house. 4,221 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 4 baths, $675,000. Total loss.

Hope they had good insurance...

Comments

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Is insurance valid when idiocy is the cause?

Question: anyone hurt? more important....

Also flame effects - especially with models - are best effected with petroleum jelly? at least that's what they used to use back in the day.

Petroleum jelly/Vaseline and a high camera speed allowing the flames to appear "big"

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

No injuries, thankfully.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I came to post. "I'm sorry, sir. Your insurance policy does not cover 'random acts of stupid.'"

Of course, really, that's what insurance should be for: something goes unpredictably stupid, you get money for it. But more often, it's like the Two Ronnies described it:

"Look, the way insurance works is that you pay us lots of money."
"And?"
"And that's it!"

-=TK

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

One farmer to another: "I've signed up for an insurance policy against fire and hail." - "Hmm, fire I can understand, but how do you do the hail?" * ducks and runs *

Seriously, I'm glad nobody was injured, but I too have doubts that the insurance will cover this.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

"Sorry, sir. Hail is considered an 'act of God,' and we do not cover those."

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

that is really unfortunate to see :( as a kid i would mes with fire from time to time as well, im glad it never got out of control O_O



you have almost no snow there O_O

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=352

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

This is on the west side of the valley that gets the most sun. Yesterday we got 6 inches...

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I ratted on some 13-year-old campers playing with fire indoors, even at the cost of already low popularity. No gasoline was involved, and they had an extinguisher on hand, but still.

[fearciuil.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Glad no one was hurt. Still; how awful for them.