Okay, so...

Today I had a friend stop by for the first time in a long time. Anyways, I got to telling him about my recently found new hobby. So I brought out my Sig Kadet Senior and showed him. It was a beautiful day, so I figured, why not fire up the .46 La and taxi it around the drive.

So I fired it up. Just after it turned over, my friend stepped forward from the rear of the plane and attempted to move the flight box away from the plane. Mind you, the glow plug lighter and leads were still attached to the plane and he decided to move the box forward of the plane. The leads where perilously close to the spinning prop![X(]

I yelled "STOP!!" as loud as I could just in time to prevent a potentially bad situation. He set the box down and stepped back startled. At this point he drops a cigarette lighter he was holding onto the ground and it bounces over just inches to the spinning prop. And out of reaction my friend reached quickly for the lighter! Plunging his hand towards a potential meat grinder!! I imediatly slid the throttle trim down and shut engine off.

Wow!

My friend was trying to help me out moving the box, trying to be nice. I understand how someone, who is unfamiliar with specific procedures, could make a mistake like this.
However, dropping the lighter and plunging your hand towards danger is quite dim witted.
I guess one has to be 100% mindful about saftey, even when you are with the best of friends.