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Bamboo Rampage

2011 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

This is not a Darwin Award, but i am sure it can make to At Risk Survivor in case it is approved.

It is sunday and the day looks good!

Sun was very bright that day and not a single cloud could be seen on the sky.

There was a house in the street which had incredibly tall Bamboos on the back of the house, possible height was estimated to be 8 meters. It could be seen from a long distance!

However the neighbor of that house was incredibly mad about the size of that thing and he started to annoy the people from the house because of the tall bamboos.

One day, our hero gets pissed about being annoyed every time and he decides to put an end to the story. Sensible people would either pay someone to cut it down or at least, grab a machete and start hacking everything, but that isn`t the case of our hero. Such thing would take too much effort and time!

So what he decides to do? He looks to his left and see a nearly full Gal of Diesel... Then looks to the Bamboos... Again to the Diesel... And his Darwin potential started to come up!

He took the Gal, nearly used everything on the bamboos and guess what happened next? He set it on fire!

Needless to say, it catched fire pretty fast and the flames were taller than the bamboos themselves and could be easily seen from a mile away.

It was also funny because the bamboos started to explode like popcorn, since they are hollow on the inside and the outside temperature was... Very hot.

The scene must have been amazing... Incredibly huge and tall flames of doom... Bamboos exploding like popcorn... A sight that is difficult to forget.

He tried to put the fire out (apparently he had some experience, as there was one time he used petrol instead) to no avail.

Screams calling his wife could be heard. Things like "BRING THE HOSE!", "HELP ME DOWN HERE!" and similar things.

His luck was that his son (7 years old at that time) was smart enough to call the firefighters and when they arrived, everything was solved in 10 minutes.

After that, it seems our hero managed to understand that it is safer to take care of the bamboos while they are small.

Submitted on 10/26/2011

Submitted by: tarsis
Reference: There was no mention on the media. It happened on 09/1996

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
Thanks for an amusing story, however such idiocy with flammable materials (including weeding, building demolition, etc.) is extremely commonplace. You'll find lots of similar stories in the archives, although probably none involving bamboo.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
What Bruce said.


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