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In this 2008 FILE PHOTO the Monmouth Junction and Kingston fire departments responded to a car fire


1 posted on 09/01/2010 8:47:33 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

How appropriate that the article right underneath this one is about Charles Darwin ...


2 posted on 09/01/2010 8:49:36 AM PDT by The G Man (The NY Times did "great harm to the United States" - President George W. Bush 6/26/06)
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To: JoeProBono

I’ve often wondered why smokers can’t use their car’s ashtray.


3 posted on 09/01/2010 8:50:20 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I should be, but I'm not.)
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To: JoeProBono

I have nothing against smokers, but really, can’t you use the ashtray in your car?

Mine holds coins, but it is really meant for butts.


4 posted on 09/01/2010 8:50:59 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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To: JoeProBono

Tell me again why teenagers are finding it difficult to land jobs?


5 posted on 09/01/2010 8:50:59 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (3 great American Thomases: Jefferson, Paine and Sowell.)
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To: JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows

Figured she would have been driving a Golf.


8 posted on 09/01/2010 8:52:31 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: JoeProBono

I have to ask a question though, how much crap was in this woman’s car?

The butt hit something combustible. Not the carpet or seat. I think they are made to be fire resistant. That being said, again, it’s what the ashtray is for. Use it.


11 posted on 09/01/2010 8:53:27 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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16 posted on 09/01/2010 8:57:25 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: JoeProBono

On a nice day, I like to roll down my car windows. But some character in front of me will toss a butt, still burning, out the window, and let me tell you I have had a few close calls.


19 posted on 09/01/2010 8:59:35 AM PDT by Genoa (Titus 2:13)
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To: JoeProBono

So what does she do? She pulls up to the house so the fire can damage it also. Sheesh.


20 posted on 09/01/2010 9:00:01 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Knowledge is common, but wisdom is rare.)
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To: JoeProBono

It sucks for her, but as a biker, I find this absolutely funny. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve dodged cigarettes carelessly flicked out of cars that I’m behind. I had a co-worker that also rides tell me that he was behind a car once where they threw a butt out.. it bounced off the road and right into his crotch. Luckily, he was paying attention and grabbed it before he got burnt. He was kind enough to move into the left lane at the next stop light and return the butt to the owner.. in the same fashion he received it.


22 posted on 09/01/2010 9:00:43 AM PDT by Dubya-M-Dees (Little HOPE... No CHANGE)
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To: JoeProBono

Once you wreck a car by smoking in it, you may as well torch it. I’m not a big fan of anti smoking laws, but it’s amazing that people used to be allowed to smoke on planes.


24 posted on 09/01/2010 9:02:07 AM PDT by Minn
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To: JoeProBono

That’s not a Honda Civic in the picture.

After reading caption on photo...

Why would they included a two year old picture in the story of a different car?

Carpet and upholstery doesn’t burn very well, it is designed to go out. What kind of junk was in the car to catch fire.


25 posted on 09/01/2010 9:04:54 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Isn't enough always enough?)
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To: JoeProBono

I know somebody that did this years ago.


32 posted on 09/01/2010 9:18:27 AM PDT by PrincessB ("if government X-rays are anything like the photos the DMV takes for your license, count me out" A.)
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To: JoeProBono

“When you get on the whiskey, let somebody else drive.”

34 posted on 09/01/2010 10:03:24 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: JoeProBono

Why do I think this is the type of person that must vote Democrat . . .


40 posted on 09/01/2010 10:48:58 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (I can see November from my house.)
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To: JoeProBono
a car burning on Bard Drive North ... 1998 Honda Civic

Double, double toil and trouble
Auto burn, and Civic's rubble.

46 posted on 09/01/2010 11:12:58 AM PDT by mikrofon (What fools these mortals be)
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To: JoeProBono
Smokers regularly cost us BILLIONS of dollars in damages from wildfires started via throwing cigarette butts out the window.

My only regret is that this idiot didn't self immolate.

Don't get me wrong. Love smokers, and they get a bad rap. But a LONG way towards them being treated like rational human beings, would be for these scumbags to ACT like rational human beings and not throw fire around haphazardly in wildfire zones (or elsewhere for that matter).

56 posted on 09/02/2010 2:41:37 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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