Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoking!

[Legacy]

Wow. Talk about dunce.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/4..._V_BD77:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUX


CHILTON, Wis. - A man faces an arson charge after telling authorities he wasn't thinking when he decided to use gasoline for cleaning up his apartment, and then tossed a lit cigarette into a pile of gas-soaked cushions and clothes. A criminal complaint filed Monday quoted a 47-year-old man as saying he knew gasoline is flammable and never should have used it.

The complaint said that when the fire began Friday, he didn't pull the fire alarm but instead shouted "fire" a couple times and walked to the Menasha police department for an ambulance to take him to the hospital where he was treated for burns.

Firefighters said the blaze extensively damaged the apartment and caused heavy smoke damage throughout the building, putting tenants of 11 other units out of their homes.

 

[Raves]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

FUcking hell, what the hell was he smoking?

 

[Legacy]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

FUcking hell, what the hell was he smoking?

lol, must have been a 'special' kind of cigarette.

 

[ShinyFlareon]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

.............he used gasoline.....to clean his apartment? 0.o What the hell did he think it would clean up??

 

[Mitchman]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

The Midwest today is on an idiot spree or what! First a twitard goes around biting people in Iowa and now we have people smoking while cleaning there houses with gasoline. Minnesota must be ashamed from being surronded by idiots.

 

[Zephy]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

He was probably inhaling the gasoline which caused him to get high and think that that was a good idea.

 

[Legacy]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

The Midwest today is on an idiot spree or what! First a twitard goes around biting people in Iowa and now we have people smoking while cleaning there houses with gasoline. Minnesota must be ashamed from being surronded by idiots.

Haha, trust me Mitch...Minnesota has its fair share of idiots. But a running gag here in Minnesota is the stereotype that all Wisconsin people are bumbling idiot-drunks...and its stories like this that do not help break that stereotype.

 

[Mitchman]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

I think your lake superior is contaminated XD. But lol yeah its like blondes. They try so hard to be smart but when they define rocket science as studying space its realy hard not to say blondes are stupid.

 

[Halberd Bravo]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

So he tried to clean his apartment with... With gasoline...and then threw a cigarette onto the...

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*facepalm*

 

[ii kanji]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

-_- Honestly. I can't actually believe that he did that. What. A. Retard.

 

[Nekusagi]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

Fail.

 

[X Dragoon]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

It should be obvious why you never clean with gasoline, but smoking while cleaning with gasoline?!

I gotta got bang my head on a wall....repeatedly.......

 

[Silverwynde]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

As if cleaning your apartment with gas wasn't stupid enough:

The complaint said that when the fire began Friday, he didn't pull the fire alarm but instead shouted "fire" a couple times and walked to the Menasha police department for an ambulance to take him to the hospital where he was treated for burns.

Yeah, that totally doesn't make you look like an arsonist or something. You really took some heroic measures there, pal. /sarcasm

The article in the local paper quoted the guy as saying that he "wasn't too smart". Talk about the understatement of the year. :sweat:

 

[bell02+]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

Maybe he wanted to be a candidate for the Darwin awards?.. but seriously, this sounds like some guy lying to the police about his idea for Insurance fraud...

 

[katfairy]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

You beat me to it; I was going to make a snarky comment about a message from a Mr. Darwin.

 

[SerenaKetchum]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

I love his quote, "i wasn't thinking." LMFAO

 

[domesticshorthair]

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He used gasoline to clean his apartment? And smoking while doing it, too? Well, he should have expected the fire, at the very least.

 

[$aturn¥oshi]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

Actually, I heard somewhere that gasoline can be used as a cleaning solvent. But yeah, it doesn't say "Caution, Flammable" for no reason.

 

[Rappak]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

sigh... Unfortunately this isn't the FIRST time I've heard things like this in Wisconsin.

 

[Arysd]

Re: Wisconsin Man Starts Apartment on Fire After Trying to Clean with Gas while Smoki

...This is only the most recent of many times I've been ashamed to grow up and live in Wisconsin.
Idiots, seriously. D8