Posted on 07/12/2007 4:22:35 AM PDT by prisoner6
The backyard grill: American tradition or potential crime scene?
Canonsburg Mayor Anthony Colaizzo issued an executive order this week banning the use of grills -- propane, charcoal and wood -- after 8 p.m. in this town of 8,825 known for its grandiose Fourth of July parades.
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LOL!!! That was great!
There was no disparagement meant in my comments. My husband is far suprior using any type of outdoor cook fire than I am and thus I leave it to him. it is a form of cooking I have just never been interested in mastering, as the men in my life have always taken so much pleasure in it that I would never dream of depriving them :)
Pronunciation: 'smIt
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): smote /'smOt/; smit·ten /'smi-t&n /; or smote; smit·ing /'smI-ti[ng]/
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English smItan to smear, defile; akin to Old High German bismIzan to defile
transitive verb
1 : to strike sharply or heavily especially with the hand or an implement held in the hand
2 a : to kill or severely injure by smiting b : to attack or afflict suddenly and injuriously (smitten by disease)
3 : to cause to strike
4 : to affect as if by striking (children smitten with the fear of hell -- V. L. Parrington)
5 : CAPTIVATE, TAKE (smitten with her beauty)
6 : BARBECUE (he was smitten by the pecan smoke and dropped his laptop at his feet)
intransitive verb : to deliver or deal a blow with or as if with the hand or something held
- smit·er /'smI-t&r/ noun
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‘If a mayor tried that here in my area he would be recalled and thrown out of office.’
Here in Southeast Ohio we’d put the mayor on the fire....
Dave had better make sure he never cuts a fart in public.
Pretty! Seems no one is listening to the Moonbats on this issue, even here in ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan.’
I work in a garden center, so we have furniture and hammocks and grills & accessories as well as plants and trees, etc.
The local Yuppies think NOTHING of plunking down $800.00 - $1,000.00 for a grill. Works for me. Keeps me employed, LOL! :)
I need the money.
:O)
Plus if there were an Eau de Pork cologne we'd be infestation free, if you catch my drift.
FWIW I think the big fall happened in 65 with the merger into the Carlynton school district.
The latest is the Black's Bridge controversy. It's been closed about a year. Some of the proposals for it would be a laugh riot if they weren't so sad in the lack of grasp between dream and reality. One proposal was to somehow come up with the lumber and manpower to cover the bridge deck with wood and turn it into an outdoor cafe or farmer's market.
Have you ever visited the CraftonReunion Yahoo group or the Crafton Speaks Up website? Sometimes it can get nearly as funny/bad as DU, LOL. In case you're interested here are a few links: Crafton Reunion Yahoo group I am willbill there.
And the main Crafton Reunion site...Crafton Reunion.org
Then my site - which I haven't updated for over a year... Crafton, The Village And my wife's site
I graduated from Crafton in '68 my wife from Carlynton in '73, 2 of our kids graduated Carlynton and still live here and we have a third a senior at Carlynton this year. So you can see we're "lifers" unless I can find FReeperville!
prisoner6
MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR IDEA!
BTW in case anyone is still following this thread here's an interesting update.
(KDKA) CANONSBURG The mayor of Canonsburg lifted a controversial ban on grilling after a backlash from residents.
The mayor banned all recreational burning after 8 p.m. in response to people burning wood and trash and smoking out their neighbors late at night.
But a lot of people didn’t like the idea of not being able to fire up the backyard barbque.
Next Tuesday, the issue of burning is on the agenda for the borough council meeting.
Not an exceprt because by my count it's less than 100 words.
prisoner6
A short while later my youngest son acme hoem from school and asked my what was going on. When I went out front there were police cars, fire trucks and rescue vehicles! Turns out am elderly neighbor a few doors away saw smoke from my chimney and called the fire department and police.
By the time they got there the smoke had pretty much gone away but the smell of the fire lingered. They were canvassing the street trying to find the fire.
They weren't satisfied until I let them INTO MY FREAKING HOUSE so they could see what was left of the fire IN MY FIREPLACE! I was then subject to a stern lecture from BOTH THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT about how I SHOULDN'T BE BURNING WOOD IN MY OWN FREAKIN' FIREPLACE! Duraflame logs ok, BUT NO FREAKIN' NATURAL WOOD from my yard!
Wife even got a call at work about me being a "problem!" The fire chief hung around for an hour and the polce stopped by several times over the next couple of hours to make sure I was "in compliance."
If wife had been closer to home I would have gone ballistic, caused a scene and most likely gone to jail. But sometimes ya just hafta follow the "Discretion is sometimes the better part of valor" drill.
prisoner6
Yes, I know all about Crafton, don’t live there, but am in the Borough regularly. Son goes to St. Phillips.
The bridge is an abject joke... PAT was willing to take ownership of the bridge when they built the busway, but of course the little fiefdome that is borough council would not give up one iota of control, so instead of having a nice new bridge built/repaired when the Busway was built, like Ingram had to their bridges... Crafton insisted on retaining ownership, and of course has no funds to fix it. And has managed to be so incompetent that they have alienated all state and federal agencies that could help them find the money to fix it....
Crafton is always at the bottom of the list when these groups allocate or do anything because they are just jackass’s to deal with. Why do you think their sewers are so screwed, while other boroughs are moving forward? SImple they didn’t even bother trying to get involved in the process with the state and EPA etc until they had no other choice, by then money had already been divied up.
Bunch of short sighted idiots. Its not a bad place, but its well on its way if it doesn’t get its act together. However I doubt it will happen, as no one seems to care.
That building inspector Sam they had for a few years single handedly did horrible damage to the borough acting like a little king ignoring and violating laws etc. Borough is lucky it wasn’t sued into insolvency. Even now they have regulations that they have passed that have been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court that if they tried to enforce on the wrong people will wind up with them being sued and losing multi-million dollar damages.
Crafton definately is on slow decline, but doesn’t need too. I just wonder if the type of people who could clean it up could even get elected let alone influence direction if they were.
When the weather turns cold here (as low as -21 F), we keep wood stacked next to the stove. It has a fan to force air over the heat exchanger. One log will nicely heat the whole 3900 sq ft house.
I wouldn't be inviting police and fire officials into my home when they are on a witch hunt. Clearly boneheads. Not to mention busybody neighbors. Everyone in my area has a fireplace. It's normal.
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