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No fire blanket? Use Mum’s knickers instead!

Normally domestic fires aren’t anything to laugh about. But a chuckle-raising story appeared in the Hartlepool Mail over the Christmas period, when two young men from Hartlepool got into a scrape over a kitchen fire:

Hartlepool Mail: Big knickers prove hot stuff for family

It’s a bit of a worry that an 18-year-old doesn’t know better than to throw water onto a fat fire. Good job it was only fried bread in a frying-pan he was making, and not chips in a chip pan; otherwise things could have ended in tragedy rather than laughter.

But the real mystery is why the knickers in question are described as “parachute pants”. After all, they’re only size 18-20. So yes, they’re large, but they’re hardly the final word in obesity!

Still, all’s well that ends well, eh?



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