Burned Docs Chris knew the dangers-house fire thread 19JUN14 -
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Well since the paper didnt specifically deal with a fire caused by a keurig coffee maker plugged into the bathroom socket for mid-poop coffee breaks he had no way of knowing that it could be hazardous
Yes, Exactly! I never thought of that possibility, and I bet neither did Chris!
Nor did it talk about the dangers of a fire in a hoard house.
Should this be filed under "Things that flew over Chris's head and came back to bite him in the ass" then?
Mom taught me to use a broom and dustpan. But hey, this is the State of Virginia speaking so what does mom know?
well... shit.Chris's homework said:
I doubt any of this was stuff Chris actually committed to long term memory. Just shit he copied out of a workbook without actually taking the time to y'know, learn anything from it. I bet if you could go back in time and tell Chris that some day his house would suffer a pretty catastrophic fire, and that he should really pay attention to this particular module, he still wouldn't.
EDIT: My older sister was at one point a caseworker for young, mentally challenged adults in a program designed to transition them from supervised care into independent living. She says that one thing she saw a lot when she would come to check up on them, was that even though they had gone through classes about doing anything but, they'd be sitting there blissfully unaware that their stove-tops were on full blast for no reason, and had probably been like that for hours, if not days. My point is, I don't think whichever teacher taught this shit to him would be shocked at all to learn that Chris basically burned his house down.
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Apparently firefighters hate hoarders houses because they catch fire more often, they are dangerous because of the junk piled to the roof, more likely to be gutted and it takes hours to put a burning hoard out completely.
Yes. Most powders are if they're mixed up in the air enough. You'll never have to deal with it as long as you don't go around your house tossing flour around and then lighting matches though.
That's true, one of the Tesco stores in the UK burnt down because they didn't clean the machines in the bakery well enough and the powder set on fire and spread really quickly.
As well as all the mills and bakerys etc that exploded over the years.
Did they stop teaching it in school at some point? It was something they always covered, even if only briefly, when I was at school. Mostly because throwing flour at your siblings is hilarious and not expected to explode their faces of they're smoking etc.
If i remember correctly, the scariest fireball on Mythbusters (in the sense that it rattled the people on the show pretty good.) was an aerated coffee-creamer ignition. There's a video out there somewhere I'm sure.
Anyway, back on topic: It's kind of interesting reading these answers regarding stoves and electricity and knives and shit, because I get the feeling that for the most part, Chris was never really allowed to go anywhere near that sort of thing anyway, which would make this stuff literally academic for him. (Wasn't it said at one point that Chris wasn't allowed to use the stove at 14BLC, or was that just conjecture? I know Chris said that he couldn't use the stove because Barb blocked it with shit.)
In a sense I imagine Chris couldn't use the stove as Barb wanted to use it to store her calenders from 1967 and old moth eaten cardigans.
Indeed, Chris.
Indeed it could.
Could we send this scan to the insurance company to prove that Chris knew the danger involved and was negligent
This is business as usual for Chris.
1. He's warned about something.
2. He ignores the warning and does it anyway.
3. Something terrible happens
4. He finds anyone but himself to blame.
Basically, Chris doesn't do precautions. In his head, if it hasn't happened yet, it won't happen. If it does happen, well, maybe he'll learn not to do whatever caused it again. Maybe.
1. He's warned about something.
2. He ignores the warning and does it anyway.
3. Something terrible happens
4. He finds anyone but himself to blame.
Basically, Chris doesn't do precautions. In his head, if it hasn't happened yet, it won't happen. If it does happen, well, maybe he'll learn not to do whatever caused it again. Maybe.
I'm assuming this is for one of the home ec classes Chris has stated that he'd taken. I'm persinally a little surprised by the subject matter--I've never taken home ec and I'd always assumed the subject matter was more along ways to cook a meal or sewing on a button than how to sweep up glass.
I'm wondering how many home ec courses ended up taking in high school.
I'm wondering how many home ec courses ended up taking in high school.
Stupidity of plugging a high-powered coffee machine into a bathroom power socket aside, I don't think Chris (nor Blarb) understood the inherent dangers of old, faulty wiring. Hell, I would venture a guess and think most people don't even think about their wiring until a fault or fire occurs.
Unless Skyraider manages to find some papers concerning the state of the house (or better yet, the state of the wiring), where the Chandlers knew of the risks yet refused to do anything about them, I'm disinclined to entire lay the blame on Chris.
It's not like Blarb would concern Chris with any significant matters anyway. Besides collecting junk for the hoard and buying Q-sands from Maccas, of course.
Unless Skyraider manages to find some papers concerning the state of the house (or better yet, the state of the wiring), where the Chandlers knew of the risks yet refused to do anything about them, I'm disinclined to entire lay the blame on Chris.
It's not like Blarb would concern Chris with any significant matters anyway. Besides collecting junk for the hoard and buying Q-sands from Maccas, of course.
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