My son told a tale today he had heard from a local Volunteer Fireman about a guy who wanted to dispose of his tree after Christmas and decided to burn it in his fireplace. Of course the tree was too big to fit in whole, and he didn't have an axe handy, and so he lit a fire in the fireplace and put the tree on the floor of his living room with the tip in the fire, figuring he would just feed the tree into the fireplace as it burned...

Can you spell "Darwin Award Candidate"?