News results for "BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man drank too much, wet his bed and set fire to his apartment while trying to dry his bedding, police in the western town of Muelheim said on Monday. "He was too drunk to go to the toilet," said a police spokesman. "The next morning he put a switched-on hairdryer on the bed to dry it and left the apartment." When the 60-year-old returned, his home and belongings were in flames. Firemen eventually put out the blaze."

Similar thing happened to a mate in Pattaya, he hung his jeans over the cooker with the rings flat out!.Luckily he caught them in time just as they lit up!.

When you read things like this story it makes you wonder what is the history of the mattress in your own hotel room.

It's OK for you expats who have your own personal bed, but as for the tourist, what are they sleeping on?

When you read things like this story it makes you wonder what is the history of the mattress in your own hotel room.

It's OK for you expats who have your own personal bed, but as for the tourist, what are they sleeping on?   

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If I'd been in the room before them, they'd think twice

Did his mummy not tell him not to play with dangerous objects? But, i suppose a hair dryer is a hair dryer - not a mattress dryer (unless you have a horse hair matress) to normal people... Or lots of hair...

I hope he will not have a aversion to home appliances in later life. Imagine getting attacked with an electric whisk?

And wear rubber knickers...