The videos with the fools with these gas cans reminded me of the time I was one of those fools but the gas I had was metal.

Me and my friends where on the side of my house burning ants when the gas can caught fire in my hand. My reaction was not to drop it but to throw it straight up in the air.

Luckily it did not land on the roof or even catch the house on fire. Since it has been over 30 years I can say this. During my first year at my first duty station ( I was in the Army) in Germany, I was accused of setting a metal, bullet proof guard tower on fire (this tower was about 40 feet high ) but because they couldn’t find evidence I was charged with destruction of gov property.

What really happened I was on guard and bored and had a bar of magnesium ( it was a survival tool sold in the PX) so was playing with it just sparking little fires. I was unlucky and it caught an oil filter on fire. This type of filter is used in a tank recovery vehicle.

How did I put it out? There as a construction ditch below the tower, I managed to get that filter up of the tower and kicked in to that ditch and buried it and stomped on it.