One of my roommates in college was an Eagle Scout. He almost burned down our apartment building practicing “fire by friction” on his carpeted bedroom floor, TWICE!!!!
I threatened to beat my portion of the damage deposit out of him. As it turns out, he couldn’t afford to be that level of stupid.
As I recall this, I am also reminded that I had to make him keep the rabbit skins outside to dry. The living room was not an appropriate place to have freshly killed rabbit skins cure.
I know an engineer that did a lot of damage and caused some fire damage to his fancy BMW. He was using a torch where he shouldn’t.
He was messing around with the steering which didn’t have anything wrong. Somehow he thought he could improve something.
Anyway he melted some wiring and some aluminum.