Romantic Taiwan man nearly burns down hotel with show of love

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Jul 3, 2008, 12:40 GMT

Taipei - A romantic young man from Taiwan nearly burnt down a hotel when he lit dozens of candles to form the phrase 'I Love U' for his girlfriend, press reports said Thursday. The man surnamed Lin, a frozen-food deliverer, booked a Taipei hotel room on May 31 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of meeting his girlfriend, the China Post daily said. Lin arranged dozens of tea-lights on the carpet in the form of I Love U, lit them and then drove his car to pick up his girlfriend. When he returned to the hotel 40 minutes later and pushed open the door to give his girlfriend a surprise, instead of I Love U in candle-light, they saw the room was filled with smoke, the flat- screen TV had melted and the carpet was singed. Lin was arrested and brought to trial recently and charged with endangering public safety, according to the China Post. He agreed to pay 150,000 Taiwan dollars (4,700 US dollars) for damage caused by the blaze and donate 30,000 Taiwan dollars to a charity fund. Lin said that when he bought the candles, the shop clerk assured him that the wax inside the tiny aluminum cups would not overflow and cause a fire, so he thought it was safe to light the candles on the carpet. Meanwhile, the hotel room's smoke detector did not go off when smoke filled the room, the Taiwan Television Enterprise reported.

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