What is the most interesting thing you have ever seen catch on fire?

I always loved to go camping.. get really fudgeed up.. and play with the campfire..

hhhhmmm, i guess i just really don't think of it as interesting. i worked on a hospital burn unit for two and a half years and that solidified my respect and fear of fire and burning objects. interesting is just not the word for it.

My fingers and tongue, and a hardwood floor, and a sneaker.

All of these were planned... I've done fire-eating at a computer-circus camp. There was actually a very thin flammable fluid barrier between these items and flame, so nothing actually got burned, or even hurt.

a microwave oven containing one very overcooked baked potato.

I put out a car fire the other day. If you'd asked me before that I would have answered "Victoria Landgraf".

Space Ghost

they and i woke to sirens blaring as a truck, across the street, burned to nothing...it was pretty interesting

It would be either the house I saw burst into flame, (gasoline is a dangerous cleaning agent), or the Fuel Oil truck that tipped over in the Kendal Square Rotary.

Robin - Those are very cute ferrets

Avo: I will pass on your compliment to their owner. The ferrets are named Jehovah and grep. (unix users tend to find grep a very amusing ferret name) They are in fact the biggest troublemakers I have met in a while.

I once saw a motor home catch on fire ... just after it pulled into a gas station.

My brother once did this weird thing that was really cool looking. I'm not sure if there was some secret to exactly how it was done, but he tied some plastic bread sacks together and tied several knots in them. Then he hung it from the ceiling with a bucket of water underneath, and lit the bottom on fire. It was bizarre. Has anyone else ever heard of this?

Hi Lizabeth! Long time no see!

Rt.87, NY Thruway, just north of the toll plaza off I90. There was a car that looked like it was having a nuclear meltdown. Not only flames and smoke visible for miles, but *molten* dripping bits of metal from the engine onto the pavement.. once I realized no one was hurt, it was cool..

robin, mmmm crispy motherboards!

I did the Strawberry Pop Tart Blowtorch trick, a couple years ago. Fun!

A stretch limo.

Wow. Today we pulled out the crispy parts, turned it on, connected through a serial line, used a different ethernet port. A little reconfiguring and shazzam! We pulled stuff off the hard drive. I am highly impressed, the motherboard is rather scorched.

oh, I saw a Xerox Alto workstation catch on fire once in the mid-80's...

The most interesting was just a dead leaf lit up with a magnifying glass. When I saw that for the first time, it was the coolest thing I had ever seen!

Any fire looks interesting when you are tripping.

I once set fire to blackberry bushes when I was staying on a farm.

Camp fires!!!

They sounds like we made some good camp fires. :)

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeezer!!!

Rod!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's up? I am addicted to this place. I have been doing surveys for 3 straight nights at work.

must be nice to surf, *AND* get paid...ya punk!

burning car on the highway -- really burning a lot. Cars are flammable!

Have you ever seen a burning Twinkie?

What about strawberry pop-tart blow torches?

I love micheal!!!

Browneyes: You mean you saw Micheal catch on fire?!? That's cool, I hate that jerk. (Or are you completely ignoring the purpose of this site in your teenage hormonal frenzy?)

I've seen a barn full of straw burn. It was pretty wild!

I caught a Psych Hospital on fire once, when they wouldn't let me go home. They tied me up in restraints for 2 days and threatened to arrest me when I was released. Fortunately I am MAD so nothing they could really do to me.

i think the person that came up with this question is some one very disturbed and i bet they are a pyro maniac.

Watchin paper burn is cool
actually i think watching anything burn is pretty cool cause like even tho its bad and sometimes ppl get hurt, its cool to watch...i watched a shop rite burn down in Lake George once

pisces: did you bother to read the explanation text at all?

It sounds conceited and its not really answering the question, but the most interesting thing I *almost* saw catch on fire is myself.
When I was at high school I was bullied quite badly. I also had long hair. One time a few people sneaked up behind me and threw a match at the back of my head and ran off. For some reason, I was quite unaware that my hair had caught fire. Perhaps there was so much of it that it provided an effective shield for my skin. The first I knew about it was when I was rugby-tackled by several desperate people trying to put me out by hitting me around the head.
I had to have a pretty drastic haircut after that.

A forest. It was breathtaking!

icurok-----DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL IN OHIO? If so I am really sorry and I never did anything like that again.

anon#2 : Not unless it was Ohio, England (which it wasn't). That still doesn't let you off the hook though.

icurok, I humbly agree. I have gone through a lot of counseling to find where that anger came from, but nothing can absolve what I did. I still feel guilt for it and try to make amends in other ways, such as helping people in my community that are down on their luck or just need a friend. I wish I could tell young people that what they think as funny now, can haunt them forever. I have looked for this girl in the classmates.com site and other similiar sites to see if I can make amends, because I can't imagine the horror of what she went through after that. I hope this helps you to know that although the person that did that to you was very cruel, they probably look at their own child and cringe in horror at what they put someone elses child through. Who knows, maybe they would like to find you to say how sorry they are. ;)

icurok, I humbly agree. I have gone through a lot of counseling to find where that anger came from, but nothing can absolve what I did. I still feel guilt for it and try to make amends in other ways, such as helping people in my community that are down on their luck or just need a friend. I wish I could tell young people that what they think as funny now, can haunt them forever. I have looked for this girl in the classmates.com site and other similar sites to see if I can make amends, because I can't imagine the horror of what she went through after that. I hope this helps you to know that although the person that did that to you was very cruel, they probably look at their own child and cringe in horror at what they put someone else's child through. Who knows, maybe they would like to find you to say how sorry they are. ;)

magnesium

The car kept starting as if it were saying "I'm not dead yet"...... and hearing the tires pop as they burned .

Has anyone ever thrown a can of beans into the camp fire ?

A home-made, stuffed life sized "person", stuffed under a bench and set on fire.

weird