Whats the most idiotic thing

Melvin Acidic Accelerator wrote: »

Using idiotic, when it should be idiotically, ranks among the top three.

Me speak English gud. "What's the most idiotically thing" just not sound proper.

hullaballoo wrote: »

Some lad on his way home had to answer the call of nature so went over and relieved himself between the bins. He threw his still lit cigarette but into the bins. Bins went up. Intake vent had been left on and literally sucked the fire into the pub.

It was all on CCTV.

Very similar thing caused a huge tunnel tunnel fire in the alps about 20 years ago, driver threw a cigarette butt out the window that got sucked into a vent of some sort and started a fire which only properly took hold in the middle of the tunnel, truck was carrying a load of butter or margarine and went up like a furnace - killed dozens of people.

soups05 wrote: »

Also a "friend" used to work in a factory where they used isopropyl alcohol to clean things. Co-worker told him if you boil it for ten mins it makes great vodka. Being a dumb ass 17 year old he tried it and set the kitchen on fire when the fumes caught light from the gas cooker. Lucky it was not an electric cooker or it would have heated up till it exploded lol.

I just bought 250 litres of this for work, tell me more:D

We actually had a polish lad working here who every day religiously would steal a little bottle of it, I was always puzzled as to what he actually done with it. I'm presuming if he was actually drinking it, it would have killed him, or made him sick at the very least.

We've on occasion had to use ethanol, which isn't much dearer than IPA, but by law it has to have an additive that makes you sick if you drink it, otherwise it's classed as a spirit and would be taxed accordingly, but I'd imagine any half decent chemist could extract it if they really wanted - 25L of pure drinking alcohol for €50...???...profit:D

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

In the factory I work in, one area uses ethanol. One of the lads once noticed a loose thread on his shirt, he got out his lighter to burn it off. WHOOSH!! The goon didn't realise there was ethanol vapour all around him.

Only matched in idiocy by a workplace that does not seem to have or properly implement effective safety and training measures regarding the storage, handling, use and access to areas containing highly flammable volatile chemicals.

I was an army recruit in basic training.
Several ncos went on the piss one night, came back to barracks and decided to have a sing song.
One of them dragged me out of my bunk and told me to go get turf from the yard and build a fire.
This was about 3.30 am and we were up for a run next morning. A red mist descended as I gathered the turf in the freezing yard.

I found an empty T.K bottle in the yard and half filled it with water and put the cap back on. I put it in the fireplace and put turf around it . We used to use floor polish as a firelighter and poured a load in and lit it. Went back to bed as the boys got to it with the bag pipes.

3 minutes or so went by and there is a tremendous bang.
It dawns on me I may have murdered someone so I sprint back to the billet where the fire is. The very drunk piper is standing with his arse towards the fire and a stunned look on his face and there is smoke coming from his kilt. Worse, the empty bunks in the billet all have burning pieces of turf smouldering on the mattresses. I run around like a madman gathering these into an ash bin ignoring the burns to my hands.

Several minutes later and the situation is under control as the barrack fire piquet arrives.

I believed my army career is over before it has begun. Next morning on parade the C.O congratulates me on keeping calm and taking decisive action and saving barracks. No one ever figured out what had happened

Modern cars without dipsticks or spare wheels. And what's the story with electric handbrakes?

Nikes self lacing runners. Ridiculous. Elastic laces do the trick.

And curved flat screen TVs. Cost a fortune and I honestly cannot see the point.

Fools driving or walking out on piers in the middle of a sh1t storm.

A man climbing a tree while holding a chainsaw which was running. Same man also put his hand into a lawnmower while it was running.

Deleted User wrote: »

A guy I worked with was staying the weekend in a caravan, and the site was about five miles outside the next village. He goes in to town for a few drinks, and leaves at closing time (country closing time that is, about 3AM) absolutely pickled. Up to his eyeballs in pints, he realises his chances of a cab are slim to none.

So, he tells himself a five mile walk in the country air is exactly what he needs anyway, so without much choice in the matter sets off about his way. He gets three miles out the road and stops to light a fag. The wind is really strong and blowing into his face, so he turns his back to shield his lighter and sparks up the fag. Takes a good long draw, and continues on walking.

Except he's so totally jarred he forgets he turned his back on the wind, and is now walking back in the direction he came from. He doesn't realise this until he ends up back in the same village again. So he's now walked six miles, ended up in the same spot he started from, and still has a five mile walk to go where he was going in the first place.

I've done that...