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Detroit-area mayor seeks citywide ban on personal flamethrowers due to safety concerns
Fox News ^
| August 19, 2015
| Associated Press
Posted on 08/20/2015 12:35:21 PM PDT by jmcenanly
DETROIT A suburban Detroit official is trying to extinguish the use of personal flamethrowers, which are being sold online by two Midwest companies, in his city.
The companies, located in the Detroit area and Cleveland, claim their devices can be used for recreation or to control weeds and insect hives, clear snow and ice, clear brush and start a bonfire.
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts calls the proposed uses "pretty specious" and "silly," the Detroit Free Press reported. Fouts wants to ban the storage, use and possession of flamethrowers in Warren because he believes the devices are dangerous and could damage property and cause house fires, injury or death.
"You know something like this will be used by bad people for bad things," Fouts said, adding that he thought it was "unthinkable" such a device would be sold to the general public.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; g42
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To: jmcenanly
The mayor fears that they might be used as personal defense weapons.
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:47:47 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: jmcenanly
Well that’s not a headline I was expecting to see today!
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:48:00 PM PDT
by
Marko413
To: tanknetter
Harbor Freight should be selling knockoffs in the $30-$40 range in a couple months.Yeah, but you just know the trigger will fail or the sites will fall off after a couple uses.
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:48:02 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
To: RckyRaCoCo
Hey, one never knows when they may have to defend themselves against giant ants.Oh jeez, not them again.
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:48:38 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
To: chaosagent; WayneS
Or dissolve some styrofoam in the gas. ;-)
To: jmcenanly
They work great for heating up branding irons.
To: Jeff Chandler
To: jmcenanly
I like the idea of the "
X15" personal flamethrower. Even sells a jelling agent for that true flamethrower experience. . . (evil grin)
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:50:46 PM PDT
by
Salgak
(Peace Through Superior Firepower. . . .)
To: JimRed
The mayor fears that they might be used as personal defense weapons.Sounds like just the ticket when encountering one of those mobs that storm your car at an intersection......as long as you can get it into action quickly enough.
To: RckyRaCoCo
Make me a sergeant and give me the booze . . .
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:52:22 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
To: RckyRaCoCo
Sounds like a plot of a Bert I Gordon 50s movie.
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:53:02 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: ken in texas
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:53:54 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: jmcenanly
As always, they never see the real problem: individuals whose “value system” allows them to use a flamethrower against people, animals or property.
Their first reaction is to ban things. They should ban liberal policies that created the street savages with no value system.
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:54:12 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
To: jmcenanly
"You know something like this will be used by bad people for bad things," Fouts said, adding that he thought it was "unthinkable" such a device would be sold to the general public. Better outlaw cars, trucks, aircraft, knives, baseball bats, sticks and rocks, then...........................................
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:54:51 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: chaosagent
Heck I’ve seen them on the back of tractors spraying weeds in the fields............This mayor is a looney bird.................
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:55:49 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: chaosagent
Try styrofoam.........................much cheaper than TIDE...........................
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:56:33 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: jmcenanly
Hank Scorpio will not be pleased.
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:56:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Texan5
Yes, but you cant buy napalm and agent orange at the ranch store...The nice thing about the Detroit flamethrower is that it uses E85 gas, available almost everywhere. Finally, a practical use for E85.
The only downside I see is that the fuel can soak in, but it won't adhere. Someone will have to invent a thickening agent, like is used in napalm, to help it stick. It could be sold in stores right next to the other automotive gas additives.
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posted on
08/20/2015 12:58:26 PM PDT
by
300winmag
(Whatever CAN go wrong has already happened. We just don't know about it yet.)
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:02:01 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
To: 300winmag
The company’s web-site recommends using a 70% gasoline / 30% diesel fuel mixture. While not exactly “sticky”, it will provide a longer residual burn time than 100% gasoline.
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:02:26 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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