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Twitter + Levar Burton = House Fire

by Terrence O'Brien on March 16, 2009 at 06:43 PM

Twitter + Levar Burton = House Fire
Look, LeVar Burton and Twitter are both incomprehensibly cool, but part of the beauty of Twitter is that you can do so many other things while using it. So while you're, say, cooking, you can pay attention to the food and exchange messages on Twitter.

Network World blogger Curt Monash didn't realize how easy it was to do other things while sending messages to Mr. Burton on Twitter. So, while Mr. Monash was sitting in front of his PC, twittering away with the former 'Reading Rainbow' and 'Star Trek: the Next Generation' star, a burner on his electric stove melted a plastic cutting board that then dripped into the burner and started a fire, which eventually destroyed a part of the house.

We're sorry to hear about Monash's home, and hope that his insurance covers everything. This is certainly the first case of Twitter being blamed for setting a home ablaze, but the microblogging service has a long way to go if it wants to compete with the likes of PS3 and Xbox (technology that seem to regularly inspire people to violence). [From: Network World]

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Tags: fire, gadget disasters, GadgetDisasters, killer gadgets, KillerGadgets, levar burton, LevarBurton, microblogging, social networking, SocialNetworking, star trek, StarTrek, top, twitter

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