Great, now a fuckin magnifying glass is a weapon of mass destruction...
Great, now a fuckin magnifying glass is a weapon of mass destruction...
I guess eyeglass lenses are out too (that's the 1 thing that kept me out of the US Border Patrol some years back, when I was still an OCT'er).
In my younger days, there were probably several thousand Fire Ants that would have agreed with you (I hade a hate/hate relationship with them as a child).Originally Posted by AuGmENTor
I heard an ex firefighter says years and years ago that if someone in a small plane flew along the California coast and dropped something on fire every so often, the entire coast would be gone and there would be no way to stop it.
Having fought the Western Brushfire on rural volunteer fire crews and watched countless of them fly out windows, I'd say that beyond a SHADOW of a doubt, a MUCH more probable cause is a cigarette (or several) carelessly flicked out a car window. PM SPECIFICALLY TO SMOKERS: use your fucking brain! [ok, off soapbox now- sorry] Southern CA has how many people and what kind of traffic again? And it rains/snows exactly how often again?
Or lightning, or faulty wiring in the cardbord-staple-n-glue shitty-then-stuccoed "monster homes" that I once helped build during my VERY brief stint in SoCAL years back...
The whole place is a grossly-overbuilt tinderbox for crying out loud!
Last edited by dMole; 10-26-2007 at 04:10 AM. Reason: minor addition
I, ummmm, didn't know that some years ago when I was in Paso Robles, California. I was sitting on the side of the road, waiting for someone to pick me up. (My truck had broken down.) And I was noticing how easily this "sage" (I think thats what it is, but I'm none too sure) was ignited by a lit cigarette. I was playing this little bordom game of igniting it, and then extinguishing it by pushing it into the sand. Well, the game got out of hand when a pice caught another piece ablaze, and WHHHRRRRUUUUUMPH, like a half mile of grass along the side of the road was gone JUST LIKE THAT. For a minute I panicked, realizing I was the only person for MILES in any direction, thus had little chance of blaming ot on the new guy. Then it became clear that the patch was isolated, and couldn't catch anything else, as there WAS nothing else.
Yeah, I lost 2 "Smokejumper" friends in that big Yellowstone blaze about 8 years ago. Their trucks weren't fast enough to outrun it, and the forest burns MUCH slower than the Southwest desert...
On another note, the smoke just reached Northern UT sometime during the night- it's brown and nasty, and JC is there a bunch! [At least it's not radioactive this time, I think...]
Jesus was there?and JC is there a bunch!
"With No Evidence, Fox Continues to..." [fill in the blank]
A few of us actually ARE starting to learn from our mistakes- that ought to be a "Thought for the Day" or on a calendar or something. Bildo O' Really best not "dress me down" west of the Rockies anytime soon though!
It'll be smackdown whoopass, or I'll die tryin...
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