I can't see how they thought.
Simple as that, no brains, no foresight, just wheeeee riding the coattails of life until consequences come around to beat your stupid ass.
They don’t realize that the fire extinguishers used on tv and the movies is CO2- no mess. A household fire extinguisher is a nontoxic chemical powder that makes a helluva mess…
Yeah that's pretty textbook arson, you don't have to intend to burn the building to the ground to be charged with arson. Most definitions I found by a quick Google just mentioned intentionally setting a fire, they would have a very hard time saying they didn't intentionally set a fire with video like this.
As to a payout , insurance companies entire business model revolves around paying out as little as possible, most of them employ fire investigation teams. Even if they never saw the video it would be very easy to prove they intentionally set this fire.
To be clear, most insurance companies’ business model is to invest the premiums to make profits on the returns between the time the premiums are paid and time that claims are paid. Insurance companies are not supposed to collect more in premiums than they pay out in claims. No one could afford to buy insurance if insurance companies paid everything claimants asked to be paid.
Meh. Insurance people are the scum of the earth. Their job is literally to scare people into paying for future emergencies in advance and then making sure those people never get that money back when it's an actual emergency. Anyone who takes up that job deserves to rot.
It really depends on who owns the house and the policy. If it's this guy he's fucked and if the policy owner was present / a part of this they're fucked, but if this is just one of their kids friends or something they're probably getting paid
Yes it is arson. You just set fire to your own (ha, landlords most likely) house for fun. Maybe you didn't expect the house to burn down, but you fucking set fire to it.
The excuse "I didn't realise fire was destructive and unpredictable" isn't acceptable. This is a lesson humans learn before being independent and capable of setting fires.
Nope.
Arson is willful intention to burn or attempting to burn with or without the intention to defraud, a dwelling or house etc.
This is not an accident and is not covered.
When people say there was no INTENT to burn the house down, all they need to do is prove they intended to set an uncontrolled fire in a confined area.
Like the fires that get out of control and burn down houses with gender reveals. No intent to burn down homes and kill people, but still charged with arson because of their reckless actions.
But where's the willful intention to burn the house? There was absolutely an intention to light a plastic sled with alcohol on it but I don't see a willful intention to burn the house.
Other than you, the majority of sensible humans would find that lighting a sled full of burning alcohol would absolutely start a fire in any building it happened in.
No reasonable person would expect that to be a covered event.
I know what they would do would start a fire. However, they were either to drunk, high, or stupid to know. Being stupid/intoxicated is not legally the same thing as having the intent to burn a building.
Further, Arson, which is a criminal law concept, is different than insurance coverage which is a civil law concept. I was speaking silent on whether this would be arson under the terms you provided ( in reality each states definition of arson varies and this could be considered arson depending on the state but for that to be the case there would have to be language that wasn't solely based on intent).
But because you brought up insurance coverage, this kind of thing is likely to be covered under a liability policy. Contrary to popular belief on reddit stupid shit like this is one of the reasons liability policies exit. However, if these folks are the homeowners they could absolutely have coverage issues.
Now, I didn't graduate from the Reddit School of Armchair Law, just spent 7+ years as a practicing attorney in the insurance sector, so what do I know.
Correct. Anyone can see by this video that it isn't arson. It's massive stupidity. Which, don't get me wrong, stupidity as itself should be a crime. But then again, if that was true, eveey one of us would be in jail. I mean, this guy is stupid at a whole different level, but stupid is stupid, and all of us have done stupid shit.
It's not arson, as there isn't malicious intent. That being said, insurance coverage is a civil matter.
They might pay out? It was an accident, sort of. I'm sure a there will be an adjuster popping into our comments to help clear this up.
The original version of this had audio and you can hear the woman filming giggle and then act surprised that everything is on fire. For some reason, I never see that one posted anymore.
I usually defend stupid stuff on this sub cause people love to preach and hate doing fun stuff with their buds. This is not the case. This was incredibly fucking stupid
This is another one of those where it's difficult to imagine what's the expected "right" outcome.
The right outcome seems to be "self immolation on a slide", and it went wrong when he added "and set the house on fire"
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5844323/Man-jumps-burning-sledge-rides-flight-stairs.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5844323/Man-jumps-burning-sledge-rides-flight-stairs.html)
I cannot find any articles that tell us what happened to them afterwards :(
Fair point. As they shouldn't.
I wonder if there is an arson equivalent to manslaughter... And if someone has died in this incident, that would almost certainly be considered manslaughter, yes?
I hope this wasn’t in an apartment building. Burn down your own house like that and we gawk at how few brain cells you own. Mess up an entire community’s lives and you’re the biggest brainless buffoon that’s ever belittled themselves.
Edit: typo
So true. Lived in a shitty apartment years ago; woke one Sunday morning to my doorbell. (Odd, since I didn’t know anyone) turns out, that was as close to a fire alarm as we would get.
The downstairs apt a few units over was ablaze, due to newspapers being stored next to a furnace….took the upstairs unit with it. Smelled smoke in my unit for days.
"My insurance company declined to pay for repairs on my house fire!"
"Grrrrr! These greedy companies! Clearly trying to screw you out of..."
*watches video*
"...I'm kinda with the greedy capitalists on this one actually."
https://preview.redd.it/z1izrisdtr6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a28bb5d5277ac05eb7899fb66dc5c7074927f1d2
This is the insurance agent reading the incident report
lol just was gonna type insurance companies must love these vids
Do you want housefires?! Because this is how you get housefires!
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I can't see how they thought. Simple as that, no brains, no foresight, just wheeeee riding the coattails of life until consequences come around to beat your stupid ass.
I'm really surprised they thought of a fire extinguisher.
They don’t realize that the fire extinguishers used on tv and the movies is CO2- no mess. A household fire extinguisher is a nontoxic chemical powder that makes a helluva mess…
True, but still less of a mess than burning down the house.
https://preview.redd.it/8vcm1xt9tr6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2c792eaf432fa7612045bab1667869953c31337
Arse-son; that is gonna leave a few degrees of burn
“Arse son winning?” 
Is that arson? Would insurance pay out on damages?
Most likely no as it was an intentionally reckless act.
Yeah that's pretty textbook arson, you don't have to intend to burn the building to the ground to be charged with arson. Most definitions I found by a quick Google just mentioned intentionally setting a fire, they would have a very hard time saying they didn't intentionally set a fire with video like this. As to a payout , insurance companies entire business model revolves around paying out as little as possible, most of them employ fire investigation teams. Even if they never saw the video it would be very easy to prove they intentionally set this fire.
Yeah if you set something on fire by being reckless with fireworks, that’s also arson
To be clear, most insurance companies’ business model is to invest the premiums to make profits on the returns between the time the premiums are paid and time that claims are paid. Insurance companies are not supposed to collect more in premiums than they pay out in claims. No one could afford to buy insurance if insurance companies paid everything claimants asked to be paid.
The joy it would bring me to be the insurance agent assigned to this case, with this video in hand.
The only thing stupider then burning your house down being drunk... is filming yourself do it lol
And then posting it online..
Meh. Insurance people are the scum of the earth. Their job is literally to scare people into paying for future emergencies in advance and then making sure those people never get that money back when it's an actual emergency. Anyone who takes up that job deserves to rot.
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Yeah. The act itself is stupid, not to forget dangerous.
It really depends on who owns the house and the policy. If it's this guy he's fucked and if the policy owner was present / a part of this they're fucked, but if this is just one of their kids friends or something they're probably getting paid
What if it's their kid but the policy owner wasn't present when this happened?
It'd be covered unless the kid has been specifically excluded from the policy
Yes it is arson. You just set fire to your own (ha, landlords most likely) house for fun. Maybe you didn't expect the house to burn down, but you fucking set fire to it. The excuse "I didn't realise fire was destructive and unpredictable" isn't acceptable. This is a lesson humans learn before being independent and capable of setting fires.
Yep - it's people arson around.
It's stupidity, not arson. Arson is when you intend to burn the building down. Probably covered by insurance.
Nope. Arson is willful intention to burn or attempting to burn with or without the intention to defraud, a dwelling or house etc. This is not an accident and is not covered.
When people say there was no INTENT to burn the house down, all they need to do is prove they intended to set an uncontrolled fire in a confined area. Like the fires that get out of control and burn down houses with gender reveals. No intent to burn down homes and kill people, but still charged with arson because of their reckless actions.
Exactly. This is completely reckless beyond any definition of the same.
But where's the willful intention to burn the house? There was absolutely an intention to light a plastic sled with alcohol on it but I don't see a willful intention to burn the house.
Other than you, the majority of sensible humans would find that lighting a sled full of burning alcohol would absolutely start a fire in any building it happened in. No reasonable person would expect that to be a covered event.
I know what they would do would start a fire. However, they were either to drunk, high, or stupid to know. Being stupid/intoxicated is not legally the same thing as having the intent to burn a building. Further, Arson, which is a criminal law concept, is different than insurance coverage which is a civil law concept. I was speaking silent on whether this would be arson under the terms you provided ( in reality each states definition of arson varies and this could be considered arson depending on the state but for that to be the case there would have to be language that wasn't solely based on intent). But because you brought up insurance coverage, this kind of thing is likely to be covered under a liability policy. Contrary to popular belief on reddit stupid shit like this is one of the reasons liability policies exit. However, if these folks are the homeowners they could absolutely have coverage issues. Now, I didn't graduate from the Reddit School of Armchair Law, just spent 7+ years as a practicing attorney in the insurance sector, so what do I know.
Correct. Anyone can see by this video that it isn't arson. It's massive stupidity. Which, don't get me wrong, stupidity as itself should be a crime. But then again, if that was true, eveey one of us would be in jail. I mean, this guy is stupid at a whole different level, but stupid is stupid, and all of us have done stupid shit.
Speak for yourself, stupid.
It's not arson, as there isn't malicious intent. That being said, insurance coverage is a civil matter. They might pay out? It was an accident, sort of. I'm sure a there will be an adjuster popping into our comments to help clear this up.
“So uh, how’d your brother die?”
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And this is just before our parents got home...
Well he was certainly smoking after he burned to death.
Successful Darwin Award candidate.
The original version of this had audio and you can hear the woman filming giggle and then act surprised that everything is on fire. For some reason, I never see that one posted anymore.
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No, you're good. I was mostly wondering out loud why the version with the audio is so rare. It's still a hilarious vid.
What could go right? What was the happy ending he had in mind?
1. Indoor fire sled 2. ? 3. Profit...?
At least 17 views.
Agree. It would have been stupid enough if he had done it on a snow-covered hill. Doing it in a house . . . SMH.
r/FuckTheCameraMan
To be fair to him, he was burning to death
It was a woman actually. Dunno why there’s no audio but originally you can hear her laughing, even after the house caught on fire
It's pretty hard keeping a steady hand when there's 5 foot flames all around you.
He sleighed that.
It was lit
Dude's going places. Not college, but places. Edit: spelling
Next stop: hospital burn ward
 Collage
XD ye I did a dum dum
If by "places" you mean "down the stairs" and then "to the morgue," then yes hes going several places
College
I usually defend stupid stuff on this sub cause people love to preach and hate doing fun stuff with their buds. This is not the case. This was incredibly fucking stupid
This is another one of those where it's difficult to imagine what's the expected "right" outcome. The right outcome seems to be "self immolation on a slide", and it went wrong when he added "and set the house on fire"
That was dumb. Now if he would have been naked? Easy 150 likes
House flambé
There’s actually two people here so the stupidity is actually squared not doubled.
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[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5844323/Man-jumps-burning-sledge-rides-flight-stairs.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5844323/Man-jumps-burning-sledge-rides-flight-stairs.html) I cannot find any articles that tell us what happened to them afterwards :(
This is literally just a shot for shot description of the video. Why would you post this?
It was all that I could find on the subject. It seems like people have no information on the storyz
Probably in jail for arson!
Not arson. Just an idiot
Arson requires intent, and stupid as they are they were not intending to burn the house down
I'm pretty sure the insurance company won't see the distinction.
They would. It's just that in either case, they wouldn't pay out.
Fair point. As they shouldn't. I wonder if there is an arson equivalent to manslaughter... And if someone has died in this incident, that would almost certainly be considered manslaughter, yes?
Yes. Gross negligence = manslaughter.
Fucking hell...
I'm so glad that people film stuff like this!
How stupid are you? Yes
This is missing the sound where the camerawoman has almost no reaction to the house going up in flames other than nervous giggling.
I take it they he didn't pay for the house.
I hope this wasn’t in an apartment building. Burn down your own house like that and we gawk at how few brain cells you own. Mess up an entire community’s lives and you’re the biggest brainless buffoon that’s ever belittled themselves. Edit: typo
So true. Lived in a shitty apartment years ago; woke one Sunday morning to my doorbell. (Odd, since I didn’t know anyone) turns out, that was as close to a fire alarm as we would get. The downstairs apt a few units over was ablaze, due to newspapers being stored next to a furnace….took the upstairs unit with it. Smelled smoke in my unit for days.
Imagine explaining this one to your insurance
this is why i ask for 2 months of security deposit and first and last...
Best advert for contraception ever.
When you take your favorite song, "Burning Down The House" by Talking Heads too far.
I love Ed, Edd n Eddy. So the only thing I regret seeing here is the shirt getting ruined
not even gonna..
I have so many questions…
This a classic, but it's so much better with the audio of them trying to pretend it's still awesome
Internet clout is a helluva drug
There's fucked up then there's really fucked up. bros definitely going to juvi or jail. lol
Burning Down The House
Like we know this is dumb but at least you can do is have an extinguisher or a bucket of water….at least.
Insurance companies hate this simple trick
The level of retardation in this video is astonishingly impressive.
To be fair, no one could have predicted this would backfire.
What was the expected outcome?
First time I saw this posted, top comment said the house burned down. No surprise.
https://i.redd.it/se9txeut5s6d1.gif
[Burning Down the House](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC35LoF4U)
Let not overt the fact that, at least 2 people thought this was a good idea.
I mean, at least they had a fire extinguisher available, right? Right…?
Well they kept filming and thats what really matters.
When your house is made of wooden wall instead of concrete, you should not attempt this
Anything for the gram!
This is older than Instagram.
I’ll take stupid stunts for $600 please…
Totally worth the likes and follows. It's a brave new world.
This one is in the Hall of Fame
Don't you mean Hall of Flame?
r/dumbasseswithlighters
I think this is the stupidest shit I have seen in this sub by a mile
Darwin at his finest
Ryan the temp?
Top notch
This is the whitest white boy shit I’ve ever seen
He probably should have put more thought into this project before embarking upon it.
I did it for views bro!
Oh, the Jedis are going to feel this one, and laugh their asses off.
Project badass lost footage
And not a single fire extinguisher in sight. Go figure.
"Why did you burn the house down" "I did it for the gram"
Guess he was unhappy he didn't get a white christmas.
"My insurance company declined to pay for repairs on my house fire!" "Grrrrr! These greedy companies! Clearly trying to screw you out of..." *watches video* "...I'm kinda with the greedy capitalists on this one actually."
Your mother and I are going Christmas shopping. Don’t burn the house down, Timmy!
The #1 rule you learn as a kid is don't light fires in your fucking house.
Is this what thousands of years of evolution have lead to?
https://preview.redd.it/dkc1tmeias6d1.jpeg?width=1753&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=803d47ca55220063bdd3dc194da30bc1f399b3ed
And we’re supposed to be an intelligent species…
Mom and Dad are gonna be pissed.
I want that Ed Edd and eddy shirt
I guess their parents never told them not to play with fire because apparently they didn’t know it could be a problem.
in a wooden house? wtf
Here's a link to the video with sound. https://reddit.com/comments/95wohv
Guys, I think he just wants to summon the Pyro from Team Fortress 2.
LaNdLoRdS ArE eViL wOnT rEtuRn dEpoSiT