Somebody told me once never to pass remarks on an alligator’s teeth until you’ve crossed the river bank. 

A MAN whose relatives say had been sniffing gasoline burst into flames after a police officer used a Taser gun on him as he ran at officials carrying a container of fuel, police said yesterday.

A man thought to have been sniffing gasoline burst into flames after police shot him with a Taser gun as he ran at officers carrying a container of fuel.

WITH terrifying memories of Australia’s deadliest wildfires still fresh, residents chose to flee rather than protect their homes yesterday when new blazes broke containment lines and threatened the fringes of the country’s second-largest city.