OK so you have to be swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool to want to light your own farts, but to mess around with naked flames near an open container of petrol? Shome mishtake shurely?

That they were equipped, as all modern teenagers must be, with camera phones to record their emissive combustibility testing.

Video recording capable phones were invented to capture this kind of event more than any other. Please, please, please let it appear on youtube sometime soon.

He'll have a sore ass for a while.

Perhaps DVDs of Bottom should carry a warning in words of 1 syllable so that chavs can read 'if u try this u r fick'

..who gets the Johnnie Cash reference in first.

...you must be doing it wrong.

So, if we follow the logic of certain groups then we should promptly lobby for the ban of cigarette lighters and petrol now, no?

I mean, those two things are way more harmful to children then videogames and people are lobbying against those... so... who's starting a petition on this?

He is twelve.

Wisdom was not one of my greatest assets at twelve, I tried recharging zinc carbon batteries from the mains once, only once though. Not to mention filling tins with gas, petrol, calcium carbide/water and dismantling fireworks in order to make explosives, the list goes on. I was more lucky than smart between 10 and 14.

I do admit the article made me laugh, experience after all is a fine yet merciless teacher.

Sounds like a potential terrorist to me!

What is the point of reporting this if there is no youtube link?

I'd love to have seen that!

I remember coming home from school one day, and coming upon my father, who was brazing the leaks shut in a Triumph Toledo petrol tank. I took the situation in at a glance. 'That's not a good idea', I ventured. He told me to bugger off - always the charmer, my dad.

So, I went into the house, and into the farthest room from the scene of the crime. I started thinking about how I was going to cope without a father.

There was a muffled *thump*.

I thought: 'That's it, he's dead'.

I wasn't keen to see the outcome, but I'd have to face it at some point, so I got up, and went through the house and into the back yard.

He was standing there. The tank had ruptured. His face was white, and his hair was all sort of standy uppy.

I didn't say 'I told you so' because he'd obviously have killed me.

None of his kids were anything like as stupid. Perhaps intelligence *is* passed down the female line?

It'd be a great advertising idea for Preparation-H. Kid, get an agent...

Anyone who thinks lighting your own farts is funny deserves to be filtered out of society. Permanently. I don't care what age you are.

He doesn't like lighting farts better not tell him about sitting around skin popping Demerol then either.

When I was 13 or so, we spent an afternoon playing with cola bottles and gas.

We would put 1-2 oz of gas in a plastic two litre bottle, lay it on its side, light the end, then stomp on it. Obviously, we were pretty happy with our little flame thrower.

Of course, we kept adding more gas... Then we did not need to fill it as often, and could get multiple "stomps" on the bottle.

It turns out, that two litre bottles are not designed for this purpose. They tend to weaken from the heat. I think it has a three stomp limit.

We filled one. I ran by and took the first stomp (now nozzle points a little higher), Kid 2 runs by and takes second stomp (now nozzle points a little higher and bottle is weaker from heat). Kid 3 runs up and jumps on the bottle with both feet (bottle sort of collapses), causing nozzle to point straight up and spray his crotch and legs.

When he was running around on fire, he looked like we was wearing fancy cowboy chaps. But with fire in place of the tassels.

Luckily it was autumn, so he was wearing jeans. And we had already prepared a water hose (just in case).

It was hilarious.

If you can pull your head out of your own arse for a moment, bring it here while I hold it under my ass, I've got a good one brewing.

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What's the point in lighting your own fart? It wouldn't be funny because you wouldn't be able to see it.

Anyone who puts fire near their bum area on purpose deserves all they get imo

If he thinks it's entertaining he should go to youtube and watch people do it/have mishaps and set themselves on fire there. Since he's that stupid he could have tried spraying some fire retardant on his skin first..

Many of us no doubt did stupid and dangerous things as young kids. But even then, I'm sure that most of us were not quite so stupid as to think that naked flame near that part of the body was a good idea.

(Note: I grew up in the back of beyond, Oz. Even in the countryside, it was only the *really* stupid kids that ever tried lighting farts!)

Yes, despite all my misuse of various explosive materials and electricity, I never actually hurt or damaged myself, or others for that matter. I had the sense to know that what I was doing was dangerous and potentially life threatening. I did understand the physics involved, although not fully as was the case with the batteries.

I can also say truthfully that I never once tried to light my own farts, that was kids stuff.

@Alex, Nope wasn't my fault, it was the fault of Cadbury who didn't put warnings on their cocoa tins concerning their usage for exploding coal gas.

no, having listened to Jasper Carrott from a young age I learned the potential hazards of setting light to a fart without ever having to try it myself!