Mother's extra-large pants prevent house fire

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saratiddyThu 03/01/08 17:04		A family home has been saved from fire by a mother's extra-large Marks & Spencer pants. 'My family could have been in hospital but the knickers saved the day' Jenny Marsey's nephew used her size 18-20 cotton knickers to extinguish a frying pan blaze that threatened to burn down the house. Darren Lines, 23, grabbed the blue pants from a pile of washing, doused them in water and threw them over the pan after attempts to put out the fire with water only made the problem worse. Mrs Marsey, 53, said: "My £4.99 parachute knickers have come in handy for something." The mother-of four added: "I think if they had been my daughter's skimpy knickers they wouldn't have done any good." The fire began when Mrs Marsey's 18-year-old son John son went to answer the door to his cousin while frying bread in the family home in Hartlepool, Teesside. On returning to the kitchen the found an "unreal" scene. "The ceiling was black and there were clouds of smoke, it was like there was a tyre on fire. There was no visibility whatsoever and the extractor fan had dropped onto the pan," he told the Northern Echo newspaper. "First of all, I threw water on. I thought it would be okay because the electricity had tripped, but that just made it worse and it started sizzling." But Mr Lines then jumped to the rescue and grabbed his aunt's pants, which eventually helped extinguish the blaze. Mrs Marsey was out of the house at the time, and the cousins managed to clear up the mess and re-paint the ceiling before her return home. "It could have been a lot worse," Mrs Marsey said. "My family could have been in hospital but the knickers saved the day. I'm just grateful to the boys." Article: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/02/npants102.xml ... New meaning to Hot Pants????
philc777Thu 03/01/08 17:07		As I said yesterday, you can not have too many topics about big pants....
philc777Thu 03/01/08 17:21		See qf 336672 and qf 336673 if I recall correctly!
saratiddyThu 03/01/08 17:24		Oppppps sorry, I didn't realise that someone had picked up on this earlier and posted it (serves me right for not checking properly!!!) Slaps hand, hangs head, sniffles softly and goes and stands in corner
philc777Thu 03/01/08 17:40		As I said yesterday, you can not have too many topics about big pants.... OK, this IS a bit boring now....

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