So, at my college, the top floor of the dorms (the twelfth floor) was the engineering floor. The official reasoning was that they could study easier up there, the unofficial reasoning being that, should they set anything on fire, only they would burn alive.

Well, around Halloween they were carving a pumpkin, and had hollowed it out, when one of the engineering students remembered the giant bottle of hand sanitizer his mother had sent him, and wondered out loud if would hold a flame very well (this is the normal person's equivalent of 'hold my beer', or 'watch this').

Well, just setting a little bit on fire and watching it would have shown some common sense, something engineering students are in short supply of, and they didn't want to risk the plastic of the bottle melting, so they poured the ENTIRE container into the hollowed out pumpkin, and threw in a match or six.

Yes, there was fire.

And suddenly the engineering students realized that they had an entire pumpkin, FULL OF FIRE in front of them. So they did the first thing that popped into their heads: they tossed it out the window.

Now, imagine talking to a friend, and watching a fiery pumpkin suddenly fall past your window. Imagine looking out the window, and realizing their are flaming bits of pumpkin scattered all over the cement several stories below, and looking up at the shocked faces of the engineering students several floors above you.

This is why you never let engineer gather in unsupervised groups; flaming pumpkins.

/same engineering students who crushed a car with a garbage bag full of water