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On A More Serious Note - meford4u - 01-06-2006
I am actually quite serious about this, having lived through a house fire in 1994 at my parents house.
This is a little item that was sent to me and I sure that it is spam mail, but it is all too important.
Unplug Everything!!
What happened in the fire I was involved in? The toaster oven, which alot of you may have, was plugged into the wall. You know where you press the toast option down and the oven turns on to toast? That actuator is held up by a spring. A spring you use in a click pen. Ever had a click pen screw up? If that spring fails in the toaster oven, the oven turns on and wammo, you have the start of a fire.
Here's the story that I was sent.
>Received from a friend who is in the property insurance business. It is
>well worth reading.
>This is one of those e-mails that if you didn't send it, rest assured
>someone on your list will suffer for not reading it.
>The original message was written by a lady whose brother and his wife
>learned a hard lesson this past week.
>Their house burned down.. .nothing left but ashes. They have good
>insurance so the house will be replaced and most of the contents. That is
>the good news.
>
>However, they were sick when they found out the cause of the fire. The
>insurance investigator sifted through the ashes for several hours. He
>had the cause of the fire traced to the master bathroom. He asked her
>sister-in-law what she had plugged in the bathroom.
>
>She listed the normal things....curling iron, blow dryer. He kept saying to
>her, "No, this would be something that would disintegrate at high
>temperatures". Then her sister-in-law remembered she had a Glade Plug-In,
>in the bathroom.
>
>The investigator said that was the cause of the fire. He said he has seen
>more house fires started with the plug-in type room fresheners than
>anything else. He said the plastic they are made from is THIN plastic. He
>also said that in every case there was nothing left to prove that it even
>existed.
>
>When the investigator looked in the wall plug, sure enough the two prongs
>left from the plug-in were still in there. Her sister-in-law had one of
>the plug-ins that had a small night light built in it. She said she had
>noticed that the light would dim and then finally go out.
>She would walk in to the bathroom a few hours later, and the light would be
>back on again.
>The investigator said that the unit was getting too hot, and would dim and
>go out rather than just blow the light bulb. Once it cooled down it would
>come back on. That is a warning sign .
>The investigator said he personally wouldn't have any type of plug in
>fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has seen too many places that
>have been burned down due to them.
On A More Serious Note - darkpuppet - 01-06-2006
I've heard this a lot lately... interesting that Glade hasn't said anything about it.
On A More Serious Note - SVT ZX3 - 01-06-2006
Got this a few weeks ago....use Fe-Breeze...live long and prosper....
On A More Serious Note - Flofocus - 01-06-2006
fe-breeze kicks azz yo.
On A More Serious Note - NOS2Go4Me - 01-06-2006
Smelly-ass people need to shower more and use the damn bathroom vent fan. That's what it's there for!
On A More Serious Note - S2 - 01-06-2006
Very good point about the toaster. I've always unplugged it, just seem like the right thing to do and as far as those plug in scent things, I've never trusted them. I got a friend that had one of those ones that come with an outlet (so they don't take up both plugs) and had it plugged into his big screen.
Dumbass to say the least.......
On A More Serious Note - 2001 ZTS - 01-06-2006
http://urbanlegends.about.combrary/bl_p...r_freshener.htm
On A More Serious Note - OAC_Sparky - 01-06-2006
2001 ZTS,Jan 5 2006, 02:30 PM Wrote:http://urbanlegends.about.combrary/bl_p...r_freshener.htm
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Also: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/glade.asp
Yep, this is in the same vein as the "Beware of the heroin needles in the McDonalds ball crawl" and such.
I've always just lit a candle, if my place smelled bad enough to need 24/7 deodorizing I would try to track down the source of the smell and correct the issue.
On A More Serious Note - meford4u - 01-06-2006
2001 ZTS,Jan 5 2006, 02:30 PM Wrote:http://urbanlegends.about.combrary/bl_p...r_freshener.htm
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"I sure that it is spam mail"
thanks for pointing out the obvious and ruining my story
On A More Serious Note - 2001 ZTS - 01-06-2006
The real unknown danger, according to my buddy the fire Captain is dryer lint. A huge number of fires start that way.
On A More Serious Note - meford4u - 01-06-2006
2001 ZTS,Jan 6 2006, 07:51 AM Wrote:The real unknown danger, according to my buddy the fire Captain is dryer lint. A huge number of fires start that way.
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I asked my repair guy about that when he was in to fix the dryer. He said that gas dryers are the usual culprit with fires and lint.
I still keep mine very clean, but my choice for moving over to a gas dryer was greatly altered with that information.
On A More Serious Note - PerfectSaiyan - 01-07-2006
hillarious.
if people smell that much a plug in air freshener wont help them