Just don't let the Cat piss on your laptop.

[Freak magnet]

FIRE crews are investigating whether a cat urinating on a laptop sparked a fire that has destroyed most of a home in a Gold Coast gated community.[/b]
Police said two teen boys, aged 16 and 18, were home alone for the weekend when the fire broke out about 9am yesterday morning in the Royal Pines Golf Resort at Benowa.
An emergency services spokeswoman said the blaze began in the corner of one of two bedrooms at the back of the two-storey rented house.
It is understood initial investigations traced the fire to a laptop computer.
Police investigations revealed the boys said they had let the pet cat out of the house at 5.30am, but it had somehow made its way back inside and urinated on a laptop in the corner of one of the boys' rooms.
Emergency services said smoke alarms alerted the teens to the fire and they evacuated.
The 16-year-old suffered mild smoke inhalation and was taken to the Gold Coast Hospital as a precaution.
The emergency services spokeswoman said investigations into the incident would continue today, but added the fire was not believed to be suspicious.

[LuMPyPussy]

Cats are VERY finicky where they pee... I find this hard to believe.

I hope the cat got out of the house.

[Middle Finger]

How can putting liquid, even pee, on a laptop cause a fire!?

[LuMPyPussy]

Little bastards' bong probably set off their stash.

[The Antagonist]

How can putting liquid, even pee, on a laptop cause a fire!?

It can't. It would short it out and fry it with no sparks.

They're probably little pyromaniacs and used it as an excuse.

[Middle Finger]

Exactly, a bullshit tale the little punks came up with.

[D]

And not a very creative one.

[Duchess]

Off with their heads !

[LKTraz]

I served as a volunteer firefighter for 26 years and as part of that I took training and became certified as an arson investigator. I was fire marshal for my community for a number of years and worked closely with the Pa State Police Fire Investigations Unit.

That being said......Ant is 100% correct. The laptop would have shorted in its low voltage DC section and likely have sizzled a circuit trace or blown a fuse link before even affecting the AC power supply section which MIGHT have had the potential to overload the wall current and thereby start an electrical fire.

If the investigators are the least little bit knowledgeable they'll take the long view of the fire scene and the source will point to itself.

All fires leave a "V" pattern. Sometimes you can't see it unless you back a considerable distance away but it damn sure is there.

The narrower the "V" the faster the fire accelerated from the source.

If the laptop was indeed the source, the point of the V will point right to the location where it sat or to the receptacle it was plugged in to. If it was running on battery, their story is total bullshit! Which it is to begin with anyway so........

Sadly, many investigators will buy in to a fire being electrical in nature as it's difficult to prove definitively, makes for a quick and easy investigation and, most homeowner's insurance policies will pay an electrical fire claim without question.

[LuMPyPussy]

Yeah, but did the cat get out of the house fire okay? I don't care about the rest of the stupid story.