DO YOU ever wonder how folklore factoids – like the giant alligators in New York’s sewers – are born, and end up as questions on Â鶹´«Ã½’s Last Word page?
Firetech, a British fire safety company, has been sending the press “invaluable advice” with the explicit warning that a “cause of fires in the home is the TV remote control – this slides down the sofa and a button gets pressed and this can catch fire”. As we spend half our life hunting for lost remote controls, we asked whether the wayward remote turns on the TV, which then bursts into flames, or whether the remote itself ignites?…
