Under the sparkle and shine of every holiday lurks a certain amount of evil: The 4th of July has fireworks accidents, Christmas has decorative light electrical fires, Valentine's Day has awkward romantic gestures. Thanksgiving should be safe, apart from the inherent danger of simply being around your relatives for a full day. Safe, that is, until it occurred to someone to drop a whole turkey into a vat of molten peanut oil. And then oops, FIRE. A word to this wise? Defrost the turkey all the way, and dry that sucker off.

Below, eight videos of idiots nearly sending themselves, their homes, and their loved ones up in turkey-flavored flameballs (as well as a few staged explosions) listed in order from least to most flames.

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Photographs: Cammie Nguyen / Eat Me Daily

Primal, an event celebrating "fire cooking, meat, and the art of butchering," certainly held up to its promise at Chase Cellars at Hayne Vineyard in St. Helena, Napa Valley yesterday. Two stages shared the spotlight at Primal: the first was a structure built to hang a cow section, the second for a full pig, lamb, and goat. Each animal was butchered while hanging, then taken to the sanctimonious table and then broken down into smaller pieces to be delivered to their next destination, an enormous fire pit. Primal emphasizes full animal utilization, so on the menu was a wide array of parts from whole roasted goat to beef hearts, pork livers to lamb heads.

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