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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gill Osborne" data-source="post: 1465111" data-attributes="member: 143965">Exactly!    I always remember reading in a newspaper a few years ago about a woman driving her open-top car and the back seats suddenly started having flames shooting up!  They reckon it may have been caused by some idiot driving past on the other side of the road and flicking their cigarette butt out of their window and it had been smouldering away for a while before suddenly igniting!  She got out ok but I think her car was badly damaged.    Now that's annoying enough but what really made my blood run cold was the fact that it was near heathland and it had been very dry for a few weeks so that rare habitat would have went up in flames no problem :eek!: :C</blockquote>