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The Arsonist

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Bev - 21 Apr 2005 23:15 GMT
I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good
ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course).  When DH came home he
said 'why are you cooking those videos on the heater!"    Yikkes.

The video tapes were nicely melted underneath and ready to catch on
fire!!!!    Nearby sat Bonnie, the smirking arsonist. I remembered that
she jumped on the heater earlier then used it as a springboard to get
onto the window sill!   She is in fine fettle now and fully recovered.
I threw out the tapes.
Even though I missed the programmes it would have been worse if the
house had burned down.

I have learned another lesson.  Make sure the heater is clear of objects
even when it is off.   I should have realised that one of them would
have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing
machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!!

Bev
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mlbriggs - 21 Apr 2005 23:56 GMT
> I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones
> on top of the heater (it was off, of course).  When DH came home he said
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> Bev

Purrs for no more "near misses".  You were lucky    MLB
Hopitus - 22 Apr 2005 00:19 GMT
Hopitus wants to know how you dare leave the house w/these appliance-savvy
cats on the loose in there.....

>> I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good
>> ones
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> Purrs for no more "near misses".  You were lucky    MLB
Karen - 22 Apr 2005 03:14 GMT
> I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good
> ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course).  When DH came home he
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> Bev

Better yet, unplug!
Kreisleriana - 22 Apr 2005 03:43 GMT
>I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good
>ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course).  When DH came home he
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>Bev

That Bonnie is the living end!  I hear the Pentagon has a plan to
weaponize her. :P

Theresa
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sriddles@aol.com - 22 Apr 2005 04:58 GMT
> I have learned another lesson.  Make sure the heater is clear of objects
> even when it is off.   I should have realised that one of them would
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> Bev
> --

Gotta watch those arsenist kitties. I don't burn candles anymore, not
after the kittens jumped up on the table, knocked a nearby newspaper
onto the candle, which ignited the tablecloth. I came out of the back
bathroom to the table ablaze, and two little gray kitties looking like
"We don't know *what* happened, honest." I'm really glad that, like me,
you were home when it happened.

Sherry
Hopitus - 22 Apr 2005 05:17 GMT
That is exactly the reason I gave up burning candles many years ago....the
cats.

>> I have learned another lesson.  Make sure the heater is clear of
> objects
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> Sherry
Mischief - 22 Apr 2005 16:28 GMT
Yeah, I used to hold meditation/Wiccan rituals in my room, but it's
hard to concentrate when a cat is interested in the candles.  It's hard
to chant or do whatever when you have to keep checking to see that
there aren't any whiskers on fire.

Kristi
Hopitus - 22 Apr 2005 18:03 GMT
I'm imagining a "Charmed" scene where cats keep knocking the lighted candles
over onto the paraphenalia.
ROFL.

> Yeah, I used to hold meditation/Wiccan rituals in my room, but it's
> hard to concentrate when a cat is interested in the candles.  It's hard
> to chant or do whatever when you have to keep checking to see that
> there aren't any whiskers on fire.
>
> Kristi
Mischief - 22 Apr 2005 18:23 GMT
For me it's more of a.....

"I pray to the spirits of the north, who care for the...Mischief, leave
it.......  I pray to the Goddess that....I said, LEAVE IT!"

"With this candle, may the spirits....Mischief, you're going to get
your whiskers burned....."

*sigh*

Kristi
-L. - 22 Apr 2005 10:10 GMT
> I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good
> ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course).  When DH came home he
> said 'why are you cooking those videos on the heater!"    Yikkes.

Wow - I'm glad everything/one is ok.  Fire scares the pants off of me.

-L.
Bev - 22 Apr 2005 20:45 GMT
> > I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good
> > ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course).  When DH came home
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> -L.

The very thought of Bonnie and candles fills me with horror!
I really am very careful about fire.  I might add that the switches on
the top of the heater are hard to turn on.
I don't know how she managed it!!!  I have smoke alarms around the place
and the kitties are never left alone with the computer as we know what
they do to the wires at the back.   I keep the spa bath turned off at
the wall, ditto with washing machine.  

When the pair were kittens they managed to singe their tails on the
heater though there is a wire grill on the front!
So even now I don't leave them alone with the heater on, sigh.

Incidentally, I am always writing about what happens to the kitties, I
remember some person answering one of my posts, telling me how cruel and
wicked I was allowing a kitty to get hurt like that!  (Bonnie's
accident)  But what about sympathy for a kitty slave - me!!!    The pair
regularly arrange themselves in doorways especially to trip us over.  
Three days ago Bonnie succeeded magnificently.  I fell over her and
crashed into the corner of a knee-high occasional table.   The sharp
corner stabbed into the side of my knee and for the last three days I
have been tottering around the house using a broom for a crutch!

Bev
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Adrian - 23 Apr 2005 09:30 GMT
> I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good
> ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course).  When DH came home
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>
> Bev

Thank goodness it wasn't as bad as it could have been!
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