I guess I’m spoiling their attempt at humor, but sometimes there are valuable lessons in the “Weird News” section of the paper.

Paul Kuschel would have been better off naked – like many of the folks at Sunnier Palms Nudist Park. Instead, he was wearing a pair of nylon shorts Sunday when a generator he was working on backfired and sprayed him with starter fluid, setting him ablaze.

“I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all,” Kuschel told Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. The fire seared his shorts to his backside.

“It’s a good thing I wasn’t wearing a shirt,” he said.

Kuschel, 43, suffered second-degree and third-degree burns.

There’s a reason firefighters’ duty uniforms are cotton or a treated cotton-blend, rather than 100% nylon or polyester.  Those synthetic fibers melt when they burn, which causes them to fuse to your skin, making for a worse burn.