Posted on 03/20/2017 9:00:36 PM PDT by dayglored
Maine's state fire marshal says a man burned down his parents' house and killed three pets while trying to exterminate ants in his basement with matches.
Investigators say 21-year-old Devon Doucette was trying to incinerate the ants with wooden matches when one of them ignited combustible materials. The fire quickly spread to the rest of the house.
...the house is owned by his parents, who were not home at the time... the fire killed two cats and one dog. They say charges are not likely.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
21
living in parents basement
maybe a little wacky weed involved here?
Lol. Good double play on words.
I worked with a guy who did basically the same thing back in the 2000-period with a house in Virginia. He was able to stop the fire in the first two minutes and prevent it from spreading. I think there are a lot of these episodes that come up and just never get reported.
Why did he want to burn his parents house down? And who taught the pets how to kill ants? Confusing title, perhaps I shall read the article.
Unfortunately, my dog likes that stuff too... boiling/scalding water works really well, as does steam... more work though.
Diatomaceous earth is just not as interesting after 10 bong hits...
Side note, a coworker collected a sample of this stuff on a site we were drilling south of the Bay Area for geotechnical investigation. It looks and feels like a super fine sand or coarse silt. The big surprise comes when you try to pound a proctor curve on it. The curve just keeps rising on the moisture side and doesn’t break over until it’s crazy high, like 50+% water. It’s because the diatoms are little spikey glass spheres that fill up internally too.
Decades ago I read of a woman exhausted by her battle with roaches in her aging New York brownstone appartment. She set off something like six anti-roach aerosol “roach bombs” meant to flood the zone with pesticide and she left the apartment. Sadly, she failed to turn off the pilot light and the apartment exploded and the entire block went up in flames with secondary gas explosions etc. As firemen were climbing over and through the rubble, they could see roaches running every which way....
I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning
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Burning down the house
Ed
the “barn-burners” are back, this time targeting ants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnburners_and_Hunkers
I use Food Grade DE in my smoothies sometimes. :)
An active ant problem? In Maine, in March? Not to likely. Drugs.
When I lived in California, I had persistent ant problems. I tried everything and the little bastards kept coming back. Sprays, borax, etc. One day, after I had doused my baseboards with the most “extreme” ant killer they had at my local hardware store, which left them crawling through oily residue since they refused to die, I took out a spray bottle of 409 to clean it all up. It killed every one of them, cleaned up the oil, dead ants and borax residue, and they didn’t come back. 409 is now my first choice for bug killer, but I question whether or not it’s a good idea for kitchen surfaces, because it is obviously toxic!
Hey, it was their house. Their son can burn it if he wants. The insurance company shouldn’t pay a dime of the intentional fire.
Stupidity isn’t arson.
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