This question is asked frequently on HT forums, so you might want to make it a sticky;-)...RF
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Some Americans continue to prefer to "do it themselves" to get rid of pests on their property, with tragic results. In June, Mike Harstad of Jamestown, Calif., attempting to eliminate a wasps' nest with a can of Pledge and a cigarette lighter, ultimately burned down his mobile home and contents and destroyed an outbuilding, a truck, a boat and a trailer. [MyMotherLode.com (KVML-AM, Sonora, Calif.), 7-1-07]
In August, a Whitehall, Pa., man, William Sekol, 82, attempting to destroy a yellow jackets' nest beneath a storm sewer grate in his front yard, put a dried tree over the grate, doused it with gasoline, and lit it (supposedly to suffocate the yellow jackets underneath). However, some gasoline ran into the sewer, where its fumes combusted. In the resulting explosion, Sekol's mustache and eyebrows were singed.
[Allentown Morning Call, 8-7-07]
Had to come back and tell this. I know a guy(shame to tell) that was trimming some tree limbs up around his house. He was using a 12 ft ladder and a chain saw. He proped the ladder up on an over head limb in a pine tree, climbed the ladder with the saw running and cut the same limb that the ladder was RESTING ON. Folks, we meet these and others like them, on our nations highways every day. Dont that send shivers up your spine? 
