This photo is from a Web site of the manufacturer of the aforementioned chimney. It's in a section warning not to heat the charcoals on concrete.
Oops.
(I assume the crack in the pavement was there but, like at our house, not the round burned circle pre-explosion.)
Here is a column about it, which Michael wrote for the Tuesday paper.
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Wow! I wonder if we could borrow that thing to use on the neighbor's cat....
(Are you OK?)
What a scary thing to happen! I'm sorry about your burn and hope it is all better soon. Sounds like something to report to consumer authorities. Take care.
It's funny that you mentioned consumer authorities! Several other friends mentioned lawyers. :)
Michael says he wrote something for the (Tuesday) morning paper, so I'm sure it'll be funny.
Well, actually I thought "lawyers," which may be a good idea. One way manufacturers like this one straighten up is to get the occasional legal reminder. Also, if this happened to you, something far worse probably happened to other people. I thank God you were not more seriously injured.
On the lawyer topic, I once got major food poisoning from one of my favorite restaurants in DC. My doctor freaked out and told me that food poisoning that severe could kill me. He made me have a lawyer send the restaurant a letter and they sent me $500, to my complete surprise. They also never served bleu cheese on hamburgers again.
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