Don’t Clean Your Apartment with Gasoline

Mike Paulus |

So this guy in Wisconsin needed to clean his apartment, and, instead of grabbing the nearest bottle of 409 or Windex, he figured he should probably use gasoline. He was wrong. I'm not sure what kind of mess he had to clean up, but it apparently involved soaking a pile of cushions and clothes with gas and then topping it off with a lit cigarette. Now, if I weren’t such a trusting guy, I might assume this wasn't so much “cleaning” as it was “arson.” At any rate, the guy is now in jail and the apartment’s filthy. From TwinCities.com

  • The complaint said that when the fire began Friday, he didn't pull the fire alarm but instead shouted "fire" a couple times and walked to the Menasha police department for an ambulance to take him to the hospital where he was treated for burns.

Yeah, um, that guy doesn’t sound like he’s on the up-n-up. His cleaning technique not only destroyed his apartment – it also turned the tenants of 11 other apartments into homeless people.