:lol: While on the topic of silly actions done in the paste...:
When I was 10 or so I decided to collect all the leftover candles we had lying around the house. You know, the pile of little stubs after christmas. I put them all in an empty tin can and started heating it with a gasburner (like you use to put tar (?) on the roof of a house (as in waterproofing it). Anyhow it all started to melt and I let a piece of rope dangle in it and let the molten wax coagulate (?).
So there I was, being proud of my own created candle. Naturally I lit it and it burned very nicely. It was blowing quite hard outside (autumn storm) and I went outside from the garage where I was busy to the house to do something inside. I figured it would blow out if I placed the tin can on the table outside to I place it in a small recessed gutter near the wall, nicely out of the wind. So far so good, however the further the fuse burnt the closer it came to the tangled mess of old fuses from the stubs. Ofcourse these started burning too and after a while it must've become quite a little pyre. Not really much a problem is it, most houses in NL being stone and all. My parents house however is imported from Sweden and all wood. Naturally wood can't take heat to well and the house decided to burn too, luckily mum had to go out for some reason and discovered the little arson before things got out of hand.
To this date there's a plank near the kitchen door which is missing a neat round bit at the bottom near the recessed gutter ;-).
