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News & ArtsTuesday, May 19, 2009
News / ??!! I Moved to the Cloudy Northwest Specifically to Avoid This Type of Horror
Posted by David Schmader on Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:29 PM
KIRO reports on the glass water bowl and sunny sun that conspired to set a Bellevue house on fire.
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Watch out also for those big aluminum bowls they sell at Ikea. On a sunny day, your potato chips may catch on fire - happened to me!
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A friend of mine returned home to find that a spherical bowl of water on his kitchen table had focused the sun and burned an arc in the table's wooden surface. Scary.
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Also, you should probably never buy a crystal lamp from restoration hardware. It's a known issue that they sometimes share with their customers. Crystal ball lamps + sunshine = LASER BEAMS
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Yeah, my mom set fire to the desk with a magnifying glass in her pen jar that caught the sun. Luckily they found it before the papers all caught fire.
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@8, HA! That'll work till an earthquake shakes the dust off the chandeliers and at the same instant, a spark from a shorting wire ignites the dusty air like a grain silo and blows your roof clear out to Kennewick.
I parked outside a discount sporting-goods store next to another car, and noticed wisps of smoke coming out of the slightly open windows. A look inside revealed that a full plastic bottle of water on the front seat was focusing the sun in a small spot on his wetsuit-type seat covers. Turns out the car was owned by an employee of the store; he came out and removed the bottle. So those frickin' bottles of water are evil in at least one additional way (they probably start a few wildfires every year, too, when discarded in the weeds).
I parked outside a discount sporting-goods store next to another car, and noticed wisps of smoke coming out of the slightly open windows. A look inside revealed that a full plastic bottle of water on the front seat was focusing the sun in a small spot on his wetsuit-type seat covers. Turns out the car was owned by an employee of the store; he came out and removed the bottle. So those frickin' bottles of water are evil in at least one additional way (they probably start a few wildfires every year, too, when discarded in the weeds).
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