Man Uses Blowtorch to Melt Ice. Something bad happens.

[HBox]

I am shocked that such a brilliant plan went awry. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28366005/)

Fire officials in New Bedford, Mass., say a man using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch ended up setting his house on fire, causing up to $30,000 in damage.

Fire Capt. Scott Kruger tells The Standard-Times of New Bedford that no on was injured during Monday's incident at the three-story home.

Kruger says the man was using a torch hooked up to a 20-pound propane cylinder. He got too close to the building's wood frame and ignited the vinyl siding. The fire quickly spread into the building's second- and third-floor apartments.

[dryerdoor]

Dummy.

:wallbash:

[KingModem]

Ever been to a bar and pee'd on the ice they dumped in the trough? You never want to run out of pee.

I know exactly what this guy was thinking....

[EliSnow]

Ever been to a bar and pee'd on the ice they dumped in the trough? You never want to run out of pee.

I know exactly what this guy was thinking....

Which is why, when I needed to melt ice in my gutter this weekend, I used boiling water, and chisel.

[Coach]

Which is why, when I needed to melt ice in my gutter this weekend, I used boiling water, and chisel. ahh heated gutters...only problem is when your dopy nephew turns them on during the dry months and they set the dead leaves on fire.

[pennington]

The guy's from Massachusetts. I have no doubt he's an ardent Kennedy supporter.

[KnoxHarrington]

I'm trying to reconstruct the chain of decisions and observations that leads someone to say "I think I'll just take a blowtorch to this", but I just can't.

[KingModem]

He was probably making a grilled cheese sandwich, ala Tim Taylor style, and thought he might just take care of two projects with one device.

[Coach]

I'm trying to reconstruct the chain of decisions and observations that leads someone to say "I think I'll just take a blowtorch to this", but I just can't.
I'm thinking he saw an Ice sculpture contest and saw how they use a blowtorch to melt ice and round out the curves.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I had a crazy uncle who whipped out a blowtorch to get the mosquitos during one summer vacation.

[west milly Tom]

I'm trying to reconstruct the chain of decisions and observations that leads someone to say "I think I'll just take a blowtorch to this", but I just can't.



You'd have to huff paint to reconstruct that chain of decisions.

[FezsAssistant]

what the fuck else is he supposed to use?

[ecobag2]

I'm not going to lie - this has occured to me.

I haven't done it - to my knowledge, but it's occured to me.

If I ever do it in the future though - I'll keep an extinguisher handy.

A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

[FUNKMAN]

his future may be on the rocks

[patsopinion]

He was probably making a grilled cheese sandwich, ala Tim Taylor style, and thought he might just take care of two projects with one device.

home improvement references can get you put on vacation
youve been warned

[OGC]

I'm not going to lie - this has occured to me.

I haven't done it - to my knowledge, but it's occured to me.

If I ever do it in the future though - I'll keep an extinguisher handy.

A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.


I can't say that it hasn't occurred to me too. But good sense stopped me from doing it

[razorboy]

You'd have to huff paint to reconstruct that chain of decisions.

Eh, I think enough whiskey coupled with some preexisting pyromaniacal tendencies would do the trick.

[underdog]

I'm trying to reconstruct the chain of decisions and observations that leads someone to say "I think I'll just take a blowtorch to this", but I just can't.

He lives in New Bedford. That's the chain of decisions that led to it.

[TooLowBrow]

they use big propane tanks and hoses to melt ice off of the long island rail road tracks.

my brother took the tank off of our gas grill this summer and screwed on an attachment that he had bought. instant flamethrower.
i havent used it for snow or ice yet but its crossed my mind. i think the idea would be to aim away from the house. start close and work outwards

[Coach]

they use big propane tanks and hoses to melt ice off of the long island rail road tracks.

my brother took the tank off of our gas grill this summer and screwed on an attachment that he had bought. instant flamethrower.
i havent used it for snow or ice yet but its crossed my mind. i think the idea would be to aim away from the house. start close and work outwards
That seems prudent.:innocent:

[scottinnj]

I'm trying to reconstruct the chain of decisions and observations that leads someone to say "I think I'll just take a blowtorch to this", but I just can't.

I'm sure alcoholic beverages are in the equation somewhere.

[PapaBear]

I'm trying to reconstruct the chain of decisions and observations that leads someone to say "I think I'll just take a blowtorch to this", but I just can't.
He's related to Westley. The guy who suggested heated snow plow blades. Or maybe a guy I work with. He has a crazy idea that, in order to replace a dashboard light that's hard to get to, he should use a cutting torch to cut through the firewall and get it from behind.

[Team_Ramrod]

I would have thought that was a flawless plan!

That reminds me, I have to go outside in a couple of minutes with my blow torch and heat the ice off my concrete driveway.

[cougarjake13]

dumbass


darwinism at its best

[SatCam]

Something similar happened at a friend's condo complex last winter. The owner had frozen pipes in the basement and was trying to unfreeze them using a blow torch. Some cobwebs caught fire and his unit and the one next door were gutted.

[OGC]

The funny thing about this story is that the temperature is on it's way up to 50 degrees now in Bedford Mass. The ice he was trying to melt is probably long gone by now. I know it is dropping off my gutters like crazy tonight.

[sailor]

they use big propane tanks and hoses to melt ice off of the long island rail road tracks.

that sounds familiar. was it brought up on the show in the past week?

[DarkHippie]

this plan blows

[TooLowBrow]

that sounds familiar. was it brought up on the show in the past week?

i think it was brought up recently. theyve also brought up how in nyc the snow is loaded into these 'fire dumpsters' that melt it as soon as its plowed up

[Tenbatsuzen]

dumbass


darwinism at its best

Uh - guy didn't die, so Darwinism has nothing to do with it.

[west milly Tom]

they use big propane tanks and hoses to melt ice off of the long island rail road tracks.

my brother took the tank off of our gas grill this summer and screwed on an attachment that he had bought. instant flamethrower.
i havent used it for snow or ice yet but its crossed my mind. i think the idea would be to aim away from the house. start close and work outwards

I work for the railroad and am speciffically in charge of the snowmelters. They do not use propane tanks and hoses. They use heating elements that run the length of the switches. Think electric range coil straightened out only 40 feet long at 480 volts.