Hot pants

Which is more use when you have an oil fire in your frying pan - a bowl of water or a large pair of ladies' underwear?

Last week in northern England , faced with a frying pan fire when cooking fried bread the owner's son ,18, threw water over the flames and made the fire a whole lot worse. His cousin then grabbed a pair of his aunt's knickers size 18-20 from a nearby washing pile and used them to successfully smother the flames.

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