4 million views on this now, I wonder if one of those viewers is his Insurance agent laughing his ass off.

Inestead of smothering the fire with the blanket, he kept lifting it off, effectively using it to fan the flames. He should be nominated for the Darwin award.

I know it was a terrible accident, but I couldn't stop laughing. Feel sorry for the neighbours though.

Well that escalated quickly.

When I was watching this last night there was a comment I read that made me laugh so hard I woke my wife... like 4 times

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"Damn! My whole pack of matches just caught fire. I'll throw it in my plastic bag full of papers and kleenex, while I check the carpet carefully to see if it's damaged. What? The whole garbage bag is on fire! What should I do? Throw it outside? Throw it in the bathtub? No, I'll throw it on top of a thick rug in the corner of the room, then I'll put several cardboard boxes on top of it. That should do the trick while I check the score of the game on TV in the other room. I'll come back with a large plastic bowl filled at 10% capacity of water just in case. WHAT!? The fire is still there? Thank God I brought my half a cup of water so I can throw it on the fire. Now I don't need this big plastic bowl anymore so I'll throw it in the fire too. The fire is still there so I'll throw my pillows and comforter in the fire to stop it. What? I have e-mails? Be right back, I need to check mails. Ok, I am back. Damn that fire is resilient. I'll throw my comforter in the fire for good, then leave for 5 minutes. I went to the neighbor to borrow his small pan with water. Wow! That worked well! That almost extinguished it. Now I am confident that this fire is over. I'll leave again for another 5 minutes and be updated about the score on TV. WHAT?!?! The fire is bigger than ever! My neighbor is now helping me to throw very small amounts of water on it. Too late... My whole bed caught on fire. The house is done. I am really sad.""

Maybe it should be added as captions for the video it's so accurate.

It sort of helps a fire escalate when you attempt to put it out with Oil soaked tissues, cardboard boxes, some pillows, more cardboard boxes, then half a mouthful of water....

I really hate people keep bringing up he "threw" the garbage bag on the floor, on purpose. How can people not notice the bag right handle burnt, and it fell apart. He obviously was going towards something that had water or a exit. I won't fault him for that one bit. It was jsut a bag. Some people even said why did he take it out of the bin. There was no bin there. It was just a bag.

Japaneae are really crazy people

As a guy that almost burned down his neighborhood, let me say this: fire is hot. You may want to put it out. You may even know how to put it out (I got lucky with some well placed shovels of dirt and a lack of fuel) but heat and smoke may effect your ability to get the job done.

That was frightening to watch.