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Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on January 27, 2008, 08:45:28 pm
are you trying to kill me? yes yes I see it ALL now you ARE trying to kill me!! guards!! GUARDS!!!!

So last night I spent the night at my girlfriend's room... and apparently while I was gone someone was very busy attempting to burn down our dorm room.

My roommate (Derek) returned at around 2-3 (he doesn't remember), many hours after anyone we know of had been in our dorm. The other roommate (Joe) was asleep and had been since around 12.

I didn't get home until 3 PM today (drunksleep!!). Derek informs me that when he entered the kitchen, he found that someone had put our pack of hot dogs - plastic wrapping and all - and set it to the highest possible heat setting and also the longest possible time (99 minutes). When he got back to the room there was 84 minutes left on the timer and the hot dogs were smoking. Thanks to our heat sensors (not smoke detectors) no alarms had gone off.

I'm really not sure if it was a drunk or something or whether someone wants to destroy our apartment. I think there are many people who have it out for Derek. I certainly didn't piss anyone off to the point of trying to destroy our dorm room. We agreed not to call the police (there is not a lot they could do) but I am kind of curious as to whether they will try again or use another tactic. If they really wanted to burn down the room they could have lit up the hot plate so I think it was much more likely a drunk than on purpose but who knows!
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Marcus on January 27, 2008, 08:48:12 pm
or they could have just poured gas everywhere and set the place on fire.  plastic doesn't burn and i don't see a pack of hot dogs as the catalyst for a room destroying fire but whatever.

dude, reevaluate your life.  if people hate you that much then fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on January 27, 2008, 08:51:15 pm
we are almost entirely sure that if someone was really trying to burn down my room it was to get at Derek. there is certainly no one that hates me that much (honestly I do not think there is anyone at NCF who hates me at all) and my other roommate is probably one of the nicest people i know!
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Mince Wobley on January 27, 2008, 08:56:44 pm
Wow this is rather interesting, have you dusted your things for fingerprints?

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BTW I think it was just a stupid prank attempt
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on January 27, 2008, 08:57:55 pm
Wow this is rather interesting, have you dusted your things for fingerprints?

yes and we have found the culprit is none other than professor plum in the kitchen with the microwave

BTW I think it was just a stupid prank attempt

derek seems pretty convinced it was on purpose because he has pissed off a lot of people lately. genuinely i think it was more likely a drunk guy than a prank because what the hell kind of stupid prank is that?
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: jamie on January 27, 2008, 08:59:31 pm
what kind of flamers does your roommate associate with
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Mince Wobley on January 27, 2008, 09:02:39 pm
derek seems pretty convinced it was on purpose because he has pissed off a lot of people lately. genuinely i think it was more likely a drunk guy than a prank because what the hell kind of stupid prank is that?

Well just a stupid prank! If they were trying to arsonize your room then they'd just have done that
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on January 27, 2008, 09:06:44 pm
Well just a stupid prank! If they were trying to arsonize your room then they'd just have done that

it was pretty close to catching on fire. it was smoking and there were embers in the hot dogs. also the plastic wrapper had melted and now i think we have to ditch the microwave because there's no way we can get the melted plastic out.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Hundley on January 27, 2008, 09:11:54 pm
wait do you honestly think that someone put those hot dogs in there for an hour and a half with the intention of burning down your dorm?

my saracism meter seem's to be broken
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on January 27, 2008, 09:15:32 pm
wait do you honestly think that someone put those hot dogs in there for an hour and a half with the intention of burning down your dorm?

my saracism meter seem's to be broken

No, I am pretty sure it was a drunk (I thought I indicated that). Derek is convinced that it was an arson attempt.

Either way I am just pissed about the microwave.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: cowardknower on January 27, 2008, 09:43:47 pm
did you take pictures of what happened to the hot dogs?
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Xeno|Soft on January 27, 2008, 10:18:30 pm
or they could have just poured gas everywhere and set the place on fire.  plastic doesn't burn and i don't see a pack of hot dogs as the catalyst for a room destroying fire but whatever.

dude, reevaluate your life.  if people hate you that much then fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

I dunno, I'm a nice person but I piss a lot guys on my campus off when they see me trying to get their girls of interest numbers and when I do they try to make fun of me, If I lived in the dorms I'm pretty sure I would be dead/anal rape.

also, I don't if the original poster of this topic is white, but what is up with white people and wierd ass pranks? Like I remember this one time this kid came to class and said "we played the sweetest prank on billy the other night dude!" I said "Oh, what was it?" ...then he said "He was piss drunk and passed out so we shaved his balls!"

I was in shock and never went to another high school party involving young white men.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Shadow Kirby on January 27, 2008, 10:42:15 pm
"He was piss drunk and passed out so we shaved his balls!"

The guy was probably happy to have smooth balls.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Pepoke on January 27, 2008, 10:47:32 pm
Maybe someone wanted hotdogs on the go?
But yeah it does seem like a drunk prank. Like one of those pranks you pull when your drunk, and when you recover from being hammered your thinking "Man, that really wasnt a funny prank"
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: tomohawkjoe on January 27, 2008, 11:33:50 pm
Maybe someone wanted hotdogs on the go?
But yeah it does seem like a drunk prank. Like one of those pranks you pull when your drunk, and when you recover from being hammered your thinking "Man, that really wasnt a funny prank"
Yes, because when I want a hot dog on the go, I set it to fucking 99 minutes.

EDIT: How'd they get into your dorm room? Is it really easy to access your dorm?
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: XxSylverxX on January 28, 2008, 01:00:50 am
how come you automatically assume someones trying to kill you when it was a burnt hotdog.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Fire Mage on January 28, 2008, 01:10:49 am
i came here expecting an actual arson attempt, not burnt hotdogs


also i think your roommate derek did it (how hard would it be i mean you're going off his word here)

idk why though
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Kaempfer on January 28, 2008, 01:23:56 am
The hot dogs would eventually blow up in the microwave, not catch fire (I have never had anything catch fire in a microwave, ever, as that is not how microwaves work). If there was any smoke it was probably from the plastic as it melted into the air (mmm acrid smoke) but the hotdogs would have just went "sploot" all over the inside of the microwave. Microwaves work by heating the water inside of something and then bounding back and diffusing, so I am fairly certain you would have been fine.

Of course, I am no scientician so I honestly can't say for sure, but I sincerely doubt that your dorm room would have burned down because of some hot dogs in a microwave.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Taylor Kaz on January 28, 2008, 01:30:45 am
And you didn't call the cops?  Shit, at least tell the news stations... someone tried to burn down your apartment with hot dogs.

if you saw that in the newspaper, would you not read it?
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Sarah on January 28, 2008, 01:47:22 am
The hot dogs would eventually blow up in the microwave, not catch fire (I have never had anything catch fire in a microwave, ever, as that is not how microwaves work). If there was any smoke it was probably from the plastic as it melted into the air (mmm acrid smoke) but the hotdogs would have just went "sploot" all over the inside of the microwave. Microwaves work by heating the water inside of something and then bounding back and diffusing, so I am fairly certain you would have been fine.

Of course, I am no scientician so I honestly can't say for sure, but I sincerely doubt that your dorm room would have burned down because of some hot dogs in a microwave.
plastic can catch fire in a microwave.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: elkalo on January 28, 2008, 01:51:52 am
Have you ever tought that it could of been Joe that was drunk and set it to 99 minutes by accident?

You wouldn't know because you came in later, and so did Derek, and you didn't mention any other roomates there so :\
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Ax_Dude on January 28, 2008, 05:31:45 am
My name is Derek, Spelt the same way too....
Whenever you mention this housemate of yours i think you are talking about me,
I've only ever met one Derrick and he had a different spelling.

Microwaveable Hotdogs seem a strange choice, I would've gone for those microwaveable fries because the cardboard box would've added more to burn with, a packet of hotdogs, I dont see burning too well.
It might not have been to burn down your room, but maybe just to fuck your microwave
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Shepperd on January 28, 2008, 05:37:51 pm
Derek is not a strange name man. I even know someone called Derek and I'm argentine
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Ragnar on January 29, 2008, 12:20:47 am
That's like how JASON BOURNE burns down a dorm room

Except he'd be HIGHLY INEFFECTIVE Jason Bourne
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on January 29, 2008, 12:27:52 am
or they could have just poured gas everywhere and set the place on fire.  plastic doesn't burn and i don't see a pack of hot dogs as the catalyst for a room destroying fire but whatever.

dude, reevaluate your life.  if people hate you that much then fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

hotdogs in a microwave? probably an accident
gasoline everywhere? probably not an accident

it sounds like at the least someone was trying to ruin your microwave. i think a fire would be pretty well contained though (paper and plastic stuff can catch fire in a microwave)
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Kaempfer on January 29, 2008, 04:00:42 am
plastic can catch fire in a microwave.

Yeah, plastic can catch fire in a microwave, then what? Microwaves are made out of metal and glass, and I sincerely the plastic fire is going to get so hot that it melts the glass and then leaps out onto the presumably tiled floor and then crawls over to a wooden cabinet to ignite that.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Farren on January 29, 2008, 11:27:11 pm
this is stupid as hell.

Tell your stupid ass friends not to operate kitchen appliances when drunk
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Lord Amesius on February 08, 2008, 02:47:53 am
Wouldn't that just make your microwave unusable and ruin perfectly good hot dogs?  I mean the plastic would melt, and there would be grease all over the inside... It would be damn near impossible get off once it cooled, but I don't think it would've ignited.

I think it was on purpose, I don't think it was arson. It was probably just some douchebag trying to be funny.
Title: Someone tried to burn down my dorm room.
Post by: Immakinganaccountk on February 12, 2008, 12:43:10 am
Hmm, I did something of that sort with a glass of water.
 Was making hot chocolate, thought I had put it in for 9 minutes. Went upstairs and figured I'd come down when the microwave beeped - I don't recall what happened exactly. Im assuming the water was very hot though. (What that shatter a mug?)