Saturday, June 18, 2011

Doofus Of The Day #489


Today's winner is from Florida.

Officials say a Florida Panhandle man set fire to his home while trying to clean an infection on his foot.

The Fort Walton Beach Fire Department reports that the man told deputies he was sitting on his bed, using rubbing alcohol to clean his foot Wednesday morning. His lit cigarette came into contact with the flammable liquid and set his sheets on fire. He removed the bedding and ran to get a fire extinguisher, but the flames grew out of control while he was gone.


There's more at the link.

Dare I say that he hot-footed it out of there?



Peter

5 comments:

Bob@thenest said...

I just found another link where a responder is quoted as saying, "I guess it's a little uncommon, but..."

Ya think?!

Anonymous said...

I wonder if he got the idea off an Internet forum?
LittleRed1

Chris said...

It's stories like this that explain whe www.fark.com has a special tag for "Florida".

Anonymous said...

Fire will sterilize better than alcohol anyway.

Antibubba

Mockingbird said...

He shoulda used some bourbon, and he wouldn't a caught fire.