Don't park your car on dry leaves.

[randlemanboater]

I am just getting around to fixing my computer so that I could get pics out of my camera so this happened a while back.

One of the guys in patrol pulled up on a burglar alarm one night, he parked and walked around the building, when he came back, his car was up in flames.

Apparently the dry leaves under the car ignited from the heat comming off the catalytic converter.

[nipper]

Sorry to say this, but that is pretty funny, as long as no one got hurt.

[Blue_Runner]

Seems more likely some kids lit a match under it to me. I mean that would have to be some pile of leaves and one HOT arse converter! Not to say that's not what happened. Did he get wrote up?

[tsubaki]

Same thing happened to my grandfather in "75 when he bought his V (the one I got) on the side of the road with a new car (he bought at the same time) that overheated. It burned like that but didn't hurt the boat or trailer. Stopping in tall grass is a NO-NO.

[randlemanboater]

We were having some real dry weather, like a foot short on rain at the time for the year. There was also a trash truck that burned up around the same time, don't know the cause of it.

No write up on that one, and yes, it was funny.

I can remember several times over the hot dry summer that I would pull into the median on the interstate and immediatly start smelling burning grass. Luckily there are so many speeders here, I didn't sit still long enough to catch on fire.