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1 posted on 04/18/2011 12:09:55 PM PDT by eccentric
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To: eccentric

That’s why wine bottles should be square, so they don’t roll under the bed.


2 posted on 04/18/2011 12:11:30 PM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: eccentric
Investigators learned an occupant utilized a cigarette lighter as a light source while searching for some property under the bed

I wonder if he found what he was looking for.

3 posted on 04/18/2011 12:12:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: eccentric

You just can’t fix stupid....


6 posted on 04/18/2011 12:19:31 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: eccentric

First it’s Chevy Volts and now it’s cigarette lighters. What’s next...bottled water?


8 posted on 04/18/2011 12:26:08 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: eccentric; ExTexasRedhead; blackie; LucyT
Wonder who/what is causing these fires in Texas?

National Interagency Coordination Center Incident Management Situtation Report, Monday, April 18, 2011 - 0530 MT National Prteparedness Level 1

IMT1 (Quesinberry) is assigned to manage large fires and provide support to initial attack operations for the West Branch Operational Area in Texas.

Rock House, Texas Forest Service. Fort Davis, TX. Pinyon pine, juniper, brush and slash. Active fire behavior. Structures threatened.

PK West Complex (3 fires), Texas Forest Service. IMT1 (Wilder) ordered. Includes previously reported PK West fire. Sixteen miles northeast of Breckenridge, TX. Brush and grass. Active fire behavior. Residences threatened. Evacuations in effect.

Cooper Mountain Ranch, Texas Forest Service. Fifteen miles northeast of Snyder, TX. Brush and grass. Active fire behavior.

Swenson, Texas Forest Service. Three miles north of Swenson, TX. Brush and grass. Moderate fire behavior.

Wildcat, Texas Forest Service. Nineteen miles southwest of Bronte, TX. Grass. Extreme fire behavior.

Community of Robert Lee is threatened. Evacuations in effect.

Frying Pan Ranch, Texas Forest Service. Twenty-five miles northwest of Andrews, TX. Grass. No further information received.

Little Smokey, Texas Forest Service. Fifty miles east of Fort Stockton, TX. Grass. Structures threatened. No further information received.

6 33 0 0 2 1DHR, Texas Forest Service. Fifty miles east of Fort Stockton, TX. Grass. No further information received.

Hickman, Texas Forest Service. Started on private land ten miles southeast of Midland, TX. Grass. No further information received.

Encino, Texas Forest Service. Thirteen miles west of San Angelo, TX. Grass. Residences threatened. No further information received.

Wichita County Complex, Texas Forest Service. Two miles southwest of Iowa Park, TX. Oak and brush. No further information received.

Sutton, Texas Forest Service. Twenty miles southwest of Ozona, TX. Grass. Active fire behavior.

Cannon, Texas Forest Service. Fifty miles east of Fort Stockton. Brush and grass. Residences threatened. No further information received.

Bryson Complex (2 fires), Texas Forest Service. Five miles southeast of Bryson, TX. Brush and grass. Active fire behavior. Residences threatened.

Pipeline, Texas Forest Service. Started on private land ten miles northeast of Kountze, TX. Pine. Spotting and crowning. Residences threatened.

* Dad’s Corner, Texas Forest Service. Fifteen miles southwest of Wichita Falls, TX. Brush and grass. Active fire behavior. Residences threatened.

Indiahoma Wye, Wichita Mountains NWR. IMT2 (Dueitt). Seven miles northeast of Indiahoma, OK. Timber and grass. Creeping and smoldering. Numerous structures threatened.

* Jackson Ranch, Texas Forest Service. Eight miles south of Caddo, TX. Brush and grass. Active fire behavior.

CR 104, Texas Forest Service. Two miles north of Cisco, TX. Oak and brush. Moderate fire activity. Community of Cisco is threatened.

McPherson, Texas Forest Service. Twenty miles southwest of Sonora, TX. Grass. Active fire behavior. Structures threatened.

Livingston #254, Texas Forest Service. Started on private land twenty miles northwest of Livingston, TX. Pine. Minimal fire activity.

Merritt, St. Johns NWR. Five miles northwest of Sharpes, FL. Timber and grass. Moderate fire activity.

* Middle Pease, Texas Forest Service. Four miles northwest of Matador, TX. Brush and grass. Moderate fire behavior.

Yates Field, Texas Forest Service. Ten miles southwest of Iraan, TX. Grass. No further information received.

4 Mile Road, Anadarko Agency, BIA. Two miles east of Paradise Valley, OK. Hardwood litter and grass. No new information.

East Central, Mississippi Forestry Commission. Fifteen miles northeast of Moss Point, MS. Timber litter. No new information. Last report unless new information is received.

Orphan, Mississippi Forestry Commission. Three miles northwest of Kiln, MS. Closed timber litter. No new information. Last report unless new information is received.

9 posted on 04/18/2011 12:27:23 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: eccentric

Not the first time this sort of thing should happen

The Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston burned down and killed 492 people in 1942 because a busboy in the dimly-lit basement lounge used a match to see where to plug in a table lamp.


10 posted on 04/18/2011 12:35:50 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: eccentric

Oh crap, now the dim-o-craps will want to ban cigarette lighters to protect us all. It reminds me of the story I read a couple of years agao about the guy who’s gas gauge was not working, so he used a lighter to try to peer into the fill valve of the gas tank on his car to see how much gas he had. Needless to say, it really didn’t matter after the level-check.


11 posted on 04/18/2011 12:47:08 PM PDT by RobertClark (On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.)
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To: eccentric
I keep telling people. DO NOT REMOVE. No good will come of it


13 posted on 04/18/2011 2:15:32 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: eccentric

Headline should have been:

Fire started by idiot with cigarette lighter.


14 posted on 04/18/2011 4:08:33 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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