At least when my cheese bra catches on fire, we can have Fondue, LOL!
"Taking a Break From Politics, Lest I Go Insane" Ping! :)
Posted on 10/31/2006 12:15:12 PM PST by Rakkasan1
SUAMICO, Wis. A Pulaski man is hospitalized at a burn center in Milwaukee after his home-made sheep costume caught fire at a bar in Suamico. Twenty-one-year-old Justin DeStarkey suffered burns over 80 percent of his body when the cotton balls and glue ignited at Chambers Hill Bar early Sunday. Sheriff's investigators say DeStarkey was dancing near the bar when he may have brushed against a cigarette.
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To judge from the article, he panicked and tried to run away from the flames (setting others on fire in the process). If only someone had been able to get a rug or blanket or long cloth coat over him, so he could drop and roll. He might have suffered 2nd degree burns or less over a much smaller percentage of his body. As it is, I suspect the poor guy would be fortunate if he does NOT survive. :-(
Did he glue the cotton balls to his body?
Dunno. That would be a better question for a burn survivor. I expect there's a FReeper or two in that situation who will be by presently.
Glue ...
Raises the obvious question: what sort of glue did he use?
And leads to the next question: Hadn't it dried by the time he got to the party?
There's a whole lot to this that I'm just not getting.
I gotta go back and read those verses again...
I thought it was the sheep that were saved and the GOATS that burned...
...hmm...
Reminds me of a CSI episode where Rocky Raccoon ended up in the ditch because he'd been shot and hit by a car. What was more interesting were "sniffing" parties he attended.
I feel the same way....so I'll just send a prayer for this poor fellow while I'm laughing myself silly reading other FReepers' crass remarks.
(grin)
Sorry about post #32. It was way over the line.
*sigh* See tagline...
ping
He was probably doing pretty good until they started throwing liquor on him to put it out.....
At least when my cheese bra catches on fire, we can have Fondue, LOL!
"Taking a Break From Politics, Lest I Go Insane" Ping! :)
I'm sure a trial lawyer will take his case-
he can sue all the evils in one:
alcohol,
cigs,
bars.
Isn't it getting kind of cold to be wearing something like that?
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Hi, Sweetie...it's getting down to 23 degrees up here tonight! The little 'Trick or Treaters' are going to be icicles by the time they get home. At least the weather will keep down the number of eggings and toilet-papering of trees, LOL! Teens up here are "normal" but a tad on the lazy side. It's too cold to be up to much mischief tonight. :)
This has been one of the coldest Octobers EVER. D@mn that Global Warming! ;)
Oh. You meant ME? I only wear my 'Cheese Bra' around the house for Husband's amusement, LOL!
Cotton acts as a wick, and both absorbs and fixes solvents. Sticking it to your skin with glue would cause a lot of the solvent that would usually 'boil off' to remain in the cotton.
Do you remember what smokeless powder is/was made of? Cotton, soaked in nitrates: gun-cotton.
The more I think about this, the sicker I feel. He wasn't really that stupid, just ignorant of some basic chemistry and physics.
Hindsight being 20-20, among other disastrous consequences, the situation would have been made much worse because the surface area of all the fiber strands exposed to oxygen. He wouldn't have caught fire, he would have flared like a struck match. It must have been as horrific as unexpected - he would have just exploded into flames. Hot flames, hot enough to ignite things he came into contact with.
you forgot glue
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