From a Florida newspaper:
A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the
house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle and
somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear.
The man, still holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio
door and along with the motor-cycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.
The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her
husband
laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle laying next to him
and
the patio door shattered. The wife ran to the phone and summoned an
ambulance.
Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several
fights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics to her husband.
After the ambulance arrived and transported the husband to the hospital,
the
wife uprighted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas had
spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some papers towels, blotted up the
gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet.
The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to come home.
After
arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to
his motorcycle. He became despondent, went into the bathroom, sat on the
toilet and smoked a cigarette.
After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into he
toilet
bowl while still seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud
explosion and her husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found
her
husband laying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was
suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin. The
wife again ran to the phone and called for an ambulance.
The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street.
The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying him
to
the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied
by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had
burned
himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of
them tipped the stretcher and dumped the husband out. He fell down the
remaining steps and broke his arm.
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