The paint removal took the better part of 2 days. The morning of the 3rd day we started with a few rolls of paper towels and couple gallons of paint thinner. Buy about 11:00 am we had filled a 50 gallon trash can ~2/3 with wet dirty paper towels (inside the building with us). With an hour left before lunch we started the painting. We were given a bag full of cheap rollers and 5 gallons of Farmers Red Paint (very thick paint). The cheap rollers wouldn't last long before coming a part and would have to be replaced about every 20 minutes. y friend was very curious about fire and had his head set on starting one of the expired rollers on fire. I told him that it wasn't the same as paint from an aerosol can but he still insisted. Wanting to minimize the mess, I told him that if he was going to screw around with it to do it in a trash can. Out of 3 trash cans available he picked the wrong one. I peaked around the corner of the truck to see him leaning over the trash can with a roller and a cutting torch sparker. A very large flame came out of the can blowing his Yankee hat to the ceiling and singeing all hair within it's path. There he stood holding the un burnt paint roller and coverred in black hair balls. Arm hair, eye lashes, eye brows, side burns, forhead, and long curls from back of his head all singed. It was very hard to explaing to our boss why he looked like he did.

I cried from the laughter but he didn't think it was all that funny.

Submitted on 11/19/2003

Submitted by: NM
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Bert said:
Neutral: Personal Account
PA, too common scenario... but amusing.

Daniel said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Amusing, but very common

Loren said:
Neutral: Personal Account
The guy is an idiot, but not an exceptional one. It's also not a Darwin. A personal account that can stay in the slush pile.

Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Amusing enough to put it in the slush pile for the readers to check out.

Charles said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Did it not occur to him that even if the paint were not flammable, the thinner would be? All the same, this lacks a certain something to raise it from the ranks of mere stupidity and into arrant stupidity.

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