A pair of scissors sitting on my table (formica top) suddenly burst into flames. No heat source, electricity, or battery nearby. No contact with anything but the table. I suspect some sort of chemical reaction between the handles and the table occurred. Any ideas?

No picture of the fire because I had to put it out! The scissors were normal paper scissors only used as an office supply. Nothing around them was affected. There’s no trail or melted plastic anywhere else. Honestly, this pair of scissors just spontaneously combusted! I’m open to all theories, questions, or possible explanations.

The fire was put out by placing an empty metal popcorn bowl over the scissors. The scissors had been flat on the table whilst on fire. I then picked them up by the blades after a few minutes (still burnt myself), threw them in the bowl, and ran them to the sink to run cold water over them. That is how they got bent. I returned the scissors to the table for this photograph.

Scissors were about one year old, only used for cutting household packaging, wrapping paper, and copy paper.

They had been been used about an hour prior to open a bag of Smartpop. 3 witnesses. This occurred at night.