I grew up around guys building custom cars and started working with my father building custom cars at Barris Kustom when I was 14 years old. I was cutting up br

I grew up around guys building custom cars and started working with my father building custom cars at Barris Kustom when I was 14 years old. I was cutting up brand new cars with an oxy/acetylene torch and mig welding custom sheet metal on them before I was 15 years old. I think it's fair to say that most of the kids my age back then were no where near being ready to do the work I was doing at that age. I said "no" to adults I worked with when I was still a teen who told me to do something stupid too many times to recall them all. When I was 16 years old I saw a guy set himself on fire when he started welding inside a van that another guy was spreading flammable glue on the floor to level it out with strips plywood. I could smell that glue 50 ft from that van. That guy went to school to learn how to weld and he had some kind of official certificate that certified he was qualified to do it. George Barris set me on fire trying to start a truck he was buying by pouring gas in the carburetor from a pop can. It backfired and caught the can of gas of fire and he threw it and it hit me in the chest and caught my shirt on fire. I had to "stop, drop, and roll" to put it out. I didn't get burned at all because I knew what to do. Tony Nancy almost cut his thumb off trying to show me how to do something I refused to do on a custom car he was building and that was after I explained to him why we didn't need to it. All that said, it was up to the owner of that business to make sure that 16 year old kid was properly trained to do that work and I won't cut him any slack at all. It may not rise to "murder" but it's as close as one can get and absolutely negligent.