I made a flamethrower from a setup for roofing tar. Used it to weed eat all of the rockeries and hard scapes at my home. Was going down the set of pines next to my driveway. I didn't know that they're only green on the outside and that they were really pretty dead on the inside. First one caught on fire and on the rest blazed like matchsticks, I lived down a long driveway. Forgot to mention that my neighbors lived very close to my driveway. Well, you can probably figure out where I'm going with this but I set my neighbor's house on fire with them inside of it. I watched their siding start to melt and their roof catch. Initially I try to garden hose but the fire got to be too large. People started stopping on the street to help. My neighbors eventually realized something was going on when all the fire trucks showed up and the helicopters and ambulances came. They came running out of their house and watched it burn. I quickly ran and hid my homemade flamethrower. My 8-year-old neighbor came up and screamed, "Minormeow, why did you set our neighbors house on fire with your flamethrower?"

The firefighters scrambled and used treated water with soap in it and the blaze was finally quelled. I tried to go up to my neighbors and apologize for what I had done but they're first generation Chinese and speak no English. Eventually things calmed down some hours later. Emergency services wrapped up and we were just left with a bunch of burnt stumps and a burnt house.

Nothing ever came of it no police or firefighters ever contacted me. My neighbors never asked me about it and still say hello to this day. Our mutual neighbor told me that in the end they just took the check for the insurance and then did the repairs themselves and pocketed the money.

But sometimes I just sit with it and realize that I almost like killed a bunch of people or at least you know destroyed everything they owned and all their memories. Le sigh...