Bordom

At lunchtime I make myself a meal and for company switch on PBS and watch English comedies for an hour with no irritating ads. One day as I was finishing my meal I turned to Discovery Channel and found myself watching something the like of which I have never seen before. I am still not sure of the title but it has disaster in it somewhere.
I was watching a fireman approaching an old ruin of a house. The cameraman is telling him he can smell gas so he should be careful. Fireman grunts
"Uhuh", AND PROCEEDS TO LIGHT A FLARE!! Camera man says
"Hey Vern..."as Vern TOSSES THE FLARE TOWARD THE HOUSE!! Seems this is a training exercise and they are starting a controlled fire.
Well... Kablooey!! Not only Vern, the idiot, but the cameraman and everyone else goes sky high.
"Holy...." can be heard right at the beginning, then silence for a bit, then a bunch of dishevelled firemen can be seen staggering around all black and sooty. Camera man is bitching like mad...
"I told you Vern...!"
I laughed till I cried
A week later I watched in the company of an offspring, another idiot try to race a homemade boat in a lake in Lower Bewtock, Alabama. The boat flew into a million bits and Bewtock man literally skipped like a stone over the water at 100 mph. We were thrilled to watch him bounce along on his head for at least 2 minutes. We were kinked!
Bewtock man of course survived and is looking to repeat his performance again as soon as he can find enough bits of his boat to put together. I 'll be there!