Tiger
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My mate woke up to his smoke alarm, his terraced house full of smoke.
He ran into his babies room and found his way through the smoke, grabbed his baby and ran downstairs followed by his pregnant girlfriend, smoke so thick they had to feel their way to the door. His girlfriend couldnt find the door and climbed out of the ground floor front sash window.
Turns out, the bloke next door came back from being out on the booze, got in and started cooking / smoking, fell asleep and set fire to his house.
The bloke died in the fire, his wife was outside and didnt even know he was in there til the police said they had discovered a body.
Moral of the story is, don't get drunk and cook.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7932389.stm
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Aaron
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Dammit
Feel sorry for the guy who died  and yeah your friends and their child had a very lucky escape.
House fire was my biggest fear when i was young....after seeing seemingly countless adverts on tv about it.
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Marc
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quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
Feel sorry for the guy who died
I don't, he put others at risk and could have added a further 3 bodies.
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sloworm
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Originally posted by Marc
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Originally posted by Aaron
Feel sorry for the guy who died
I don't, he put others at risk and could have added a further 3 bodies.
Agreed, you wouldnt feel sorry for the guy if the poor parents and there babies had died would you?
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Colin
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Happens more often than you'd think!!
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Aaron
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quote:
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I don't, he put others at risk and could have added a further 3 bodies.
Yeah yeah....but he didnt.
Each to their own 
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Aaron
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Originally posted by sloworm
Agreed, you wouldnt feel sorry for the guy if the poor parents and there babies had died would you?
Again.....no i probably wouldnt....but they didn't did they
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Tiger
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I was just round there a while ago, even though it happened a couple of days ago, it took me 15 mins to scrub the smokey smell from my skin and hair.
The whole house is ruined, soot in every cupboard, carpets black, all white plastic tainted yellowish from smoke, the stench is really bad.
Even bank cards that were in purses then in handbags are covered in soot.
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Jamie-C
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What happens in a situation like that? Does the neighbour whos house went on fire have to pay for damages?
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Ben G
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What happens in a situation like that? Does the neighbour whos house went on fire have to pay for damages?
insurance  
if you crashed into someone on the road, you wouldn't pay for the other persons car you damaged would you 
[Edited on 10-03-2009 by Ben G]
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quote:
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Originally posted by sloworm
Agreed, you wouldnt feel sorry for the guy if the poor parents and there babies had died would you?
Again.....no i probably wouldnt....but they didn't did they
I fucking would. We all do silly stuff when were drunk, id feel really bad for him if hed gone and not only killed himself but others aswell, no one deserves that just for being drunk.
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Tiger
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quote:
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What happens in a situation like that? Does the neighbour whos house went on fire have to pay for damages?
Well, I would have thought it would be the neighbours insurance, but it's my mates house insurance that is doing the groundwork. Whether they bill the neighbours house insurance company afterwards I really don't know.
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mattk
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Originally posted by Aaron
Feel sorry for the guy who died
I don't, he put others at risk and could have added a further 3 bodies.
so you have never done anything where you have looked back and thought, "hey that could have been dangerous, think of the repercussions that could have happened"
I feel sorry for him, there are people doing alot worse day in day out and getting away with it, he was unlucky, we all do stupid things and accidents happen. Im sure it wasnt mallicious
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Marc
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That could lead to endangering other people? No.
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mattk
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must just be me then 
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Marc
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Used to endanger my own life every day though
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Bonney
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Very nearly happened to us with the lad next door. Luckily he woke up just in time and managed to put it out. I only woke up when the street was full of fire engines.
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Tom G
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Christ i remember when i used to get in drunk and cook summit, not doing that ever again!!!
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mattk
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there is no excuse really, Id love to know what you can cook your self pissed that will rival a kebab?
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ed
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I think the real moral of the story here is to keep your smoke alarms servicable.
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Root
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lol, I set fire to my kitchen once trying to make a stir fry.
It said make sure the oil in the frying pan was really hot before adding stir fry so I did...I sat in the front room reading about corsa's, went back into kitchen to see it on fire o_o
turned off the gas and it went out 
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Christ. Glad ur mate and family are all okay.
I better watch myself. I always cook when i come home drunk.
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