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Letter: Brighty the Burro Was Killed and Eaten by Tourists
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| Ricardo Small
Posted on 08/20/2025 8:48:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The legend of Brighty the Burro of the Grand Canyon excludes the whole truth. During a winter when some tourists were stranded at the Grand Canyon and were out of food, they killed Brighty and ate him. This factual omission is typical of Park Service personnel who often try to deceive the public. They now say they did nothing wrong in letting the Dragon Bravo fire burn out of control and destroy the North Rim. Far from the truth. The Park's superintendent and every single one of the honchos who let that fire get out of control are criminally negligent and should be fired. You do not allow a fire to burn during the hot, dry summer months in a forest where the fuel load is extreme. You wait until the winter months to use fire to thin out that dense vegetation.
Ricardo Small
TOPICS: Food; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: brightytheburro; burros; dragonbravofire; fire; grandcanyon; parks; parkservice; stranded
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/20/2025 8:50:05 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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posted on
08/20/2025 8:52:12 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/20/2025 8:58:36 PM PDT
by
TLI
(ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:00:35 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
To: nickcarraway
All they had was Brighty and some stale tortillas. But necessity being the mother of invention the starving tourists invented the Burrito!
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:00:59 PM PDT
by
Freedumb
To: nickcarraway
That’s a huge leap between bowdlerized folklore on one hand, and an allegation of criminal negligence on the other!
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:04:50 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
But for this guy, there is a direct connection.
To: Freedumb
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:07:30 PM PDT
by
awelliott
(What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
To: nickcarraway
Hope he wasn’t from Boystown... (Mexican border)
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:18:30 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:23:07 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: nickcarraway
When did this happen?
1880s? 1930s? Last week? Yesterday?
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:24:37 PM PDT
by
x
To: Freedumb
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:28:09 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
To: x
>
When did this happen? 1880s? 1930s? Last week? Yesterday? Couldn't have been last week or yesterday, the article says "...During a winter ..."
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:39:26 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: x
Actually it was the turn of the century, 1890-1900 era. There is a children’s book about it.
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:41:16 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: Bullish
Right. That’s a horrible thing to do to any animal.
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:52:49 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Trump Is Superman)
To: nickcarraway
Government always lies.
That’s why you need it as tiny as possible.
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:55:59 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Veto!
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posted on
08/20/2025 9:56:23 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Repeal The 17th
Actually, burro tastes somewhere between horse and goat
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posted on
08/20/2025 10:01:46 PM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
To: Veto!
When you are snowed in for three months you too will eat just about anything.
And most of the rest of the burros were slaughtered wholesale and not eaten.
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posted on
08/20/2025 10:07:05 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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