The following is taken 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 the motorcycle 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 flights 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 the 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 ankle.