Posted on 12/15/2017 2:34:14 AM PST by Fai Mao
Residents of Sitka, Alaska woke on the morning of Monday, April 1, 1974, to a bright, clear day. They could see right across Sitka Sound to Kruzof Island, where the familiar sight of Mount Edgecumbe, a volcano dormant for 400 years, loomed. But today something was different about the view. A menacing plume of black smoke was rising from the crater. It looked like the volcano was preparing to blow!
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Nowadays he would’ve gone to jail for assault on the environment and been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars....
Fake news has infected the entire Western World.
Soon every leftist in North America will need to be read a bed time story before they go to sleep, and wake up Republican.
Mount Edgecomb is nothing, wait for Mount Rebar.
Some thirty-plus years ago the (now defunct) Colorado Springs Sun had an April Fools issue that blazed “Pikes Peak Erupts” with a darkroom tricked shot of a plume rising from the Peak.
I loved it. Others complained.
Great Sitkan smoked quite a bit. On a clear day we could see Tanaga. That whole Aleutian chain is alive (geologically). I rather enjoyed Adak.
My wife grew up on Sitka and recalls this event vividly.
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Excellent!
I love practical jokes and have pulled off several great ones.
I read about this one a few months ago and still laugh
My most elaborate was building a wall at a friends house while they were on vacation. The wall separated the bedrooms from the rest of the house. It was a real wall. Studs, drywall, mud, paint.
We also had a video camera to record their reaction. It was great.
My wife used to work for the Hong Kong Council of Academic Accreditation which is the organization that accredits university programs and overseas degrees. They also accredit things like beauty and barber colleges.
At the end of one these accreditation exercises, they’d have a buffet/cocktail party and I’d often (Until I pulled this stunt) get to go as the tag-a-long spouse.
For the party for beauty colleges, I made sure my head was shaved and the Van Dyke beard trimmed. Wore an actual suit and a shirt with French cuffs. Before I left work, however; I used some card stock I had for book repair in my library to make about 20 fake business cards using a color laser printer. The cards said: “Code Red Salon Saving Hong Kong’s Hair from High Fashion since 1987” There was a police light logo I swiped from Drudge report and resized. I also included a made-up telephone number and address. When the other attendees asked who I was I gave them the card and explained, “When a woman goes to your salon on Friday and her family and friends laugh at the strange unflattering cut she received from a high dollar salon she comes to me on Monday to salvage her dignity.” The look on their faces was priceless. My wife almost killed me when she found out what I was doing
That’s awesome.
I once pulled a similar corporate stunt.
A co-worker took a certification class and came back just beaming about all he’d learned and talked incessantly about it for days. We needed to shut him up.
We had several people involved. The graphic designer made a letterhead for the certifying company. I wrote a letter from the President informing my colleague that they discovered he had cheated on the exam and were rescinding his certification. We actually mailed the letter so it had a cancelled stamp. The HR Director (who was in on it) hand delivered the letter. My co-worker read it and started yelling and stomping around the office.
Of course, we had a video camera recording the entire thing.
Two weeks later, at our national business meeting we showed the video to 150 colleagues.
Memorably great.
Wife and I were in Sitka a month and half ago visiting our Coast Guard family and heard about this. We thought it hilarious. Today the guy would be in jail.
I remember a school teacher telling of a similar incident sometime back in the 1930s or 40s.
Capulin volcano in New Mexico, one windy spring had filled the crater with tumbleweeds. The park managers decided to burn them out and informed everyone around, also had radio broadcasts of what was going to happen.
One family did not get the word and woke up to the mountain smoking and fire coming out the crater.
The teacher said they got out of there so fast they destroyed the four tires on their car and were running away on the rims.
Being the only guy that might own cufflinks...
Missing some?
“police found the alleged burglar with nine silver and gold cufflinks on him”
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Our sense of humor has changed much since just the 70’s. Not for the better in most cases, IMO. This guy was a hoot!
That’s nothing much.
When Mount Rebarastinatis goes, there will be such a hole in the Japan /Russia tectonic resurgence, that even interplanetary exo-geologists will simply initiate radical gene therapy so as to grow themselves double jointed, so they can immediately bend over backwards and kiss their own liberal fascist enviro-loonie a$$es good bye!
Kudos to them. The fewer of the ba$tids we have around, the better.
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