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Feb 17, 2010

Area Genius Melts Roof Ice With Blowtorch, Sets House on Fire

It takes a special kind of idiot to decide to get up on the roof of a house with an open flame, but that’s exactly what some workers in the Rockville area of Montgomery County did on Tuesday, the Post reports. They were apparently trying to use a propane torch to clear ice from the roof. Smarties, these ones. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured when the inevitable fire broke out (one man was…

 
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