My hometown occasionally makes the national news -- and usually for "bubba gone bad" stories like this one. The quote from the fire/rescue guy totally cracks me up...
Man Sets Alabama House Ablaze Trying to Kill Bees
Thursday, June 05, 2008
MOBILE, Ala. -- Joshua Mullen just wanted to kill the bees swarming around his utility shed.
When Mullen, 26, walked away from the gasoline-soaked towels he was using, he heard a "whoosh" and turned around to see the shed in flames that spread to his rented home and wound up causing some $80,000 in damage.
'There were no injuries, unless you count the bees,' Mobile Fire-Rescue spokesman Steve Huffman said.
Huffman said the fire appears to have started when the pilot light of a hot-water heater in the shed ignited fumes from the gas.
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A trained mechanic, Mullen said he has been trained on gasoline flash points and flammability but didn't expect the gas to put off enough fumes to catch fire.
'Looking at all this, there might have been a better way,' Mullen said while a few surviving bees buzzed around the ashes of the shed. 'It was a mistake. I wish I hadn't done it, but I did.'
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,363561,00.html