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ATF detonates explosives in TX charring hundreds of acres, local officials react
FOX34-KJTV, Lubbock ^ | May 12, 2011 | Melinda Alvarado

Posted on 05/13/2011 9:39:24 AM PDT by WestTexasWend

You've probably heard of having a corner on the market?

The Motley County (TX) Attorney says agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have the corner on something else.

ATF agents were blowing up old and unusable ordinance in Motley County Tuesday afternoon, when they ignited a blaze that consumed 100 to 150 acres.

FOX34 asked County Attorney Tom Edwards if the exercise violated the county's burn ban.

"I will say this and you can quote me on it. That bunch had a real corner on stupid. We had high winds. We're under a burn ban because of extensive prairie fire, brush fires, and in they roll with the idea of blowing up things and giving no notification to our Sheriff. We've got a few residents who thought there might have been a terrorist act going on. To do all of that with a burn ban in effect. I know a bunch about explosives from my military career and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that explosives cause fires. We had a very good wind blowing that evening also. On top of that, we've got the federal government that has refused to provide assistance to the state on the request of Governor Perry because of all our statewide fires. Then in waltzes federal agents and they start a fire. That to me is a corner on stupid," Edwards said.

Edwards said he's still investigating the burn and tallying the damage and response costs which he said the ATF promises to reimburse.

Edwards also told FOX34 that an ATF administrator has apologized to the Motley County Sheriff for not notifying him of the exercise.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: atf; stupid
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To: WestTexasWend
Just more evidence of the "rules and laws don't apply to us" attitude of the BATFE.

Not the only Government agency with that problem.

21 posted on 05/13/2011 10:08:44 AM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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To: dfwgator
The ATF has a history of setting fires in Texas, after filling said compound with flammable gasses.
22 posted on 05/13/2011 10:14:40 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The American taxpayer cannot support the tax and spend habits of DC.)
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To: nerdwithagun

” Actually we are here to make problems, set fires, and cost people money”

...and kill you if we want to.

...and steal your house, raise your taxes, touch your junk at the airport, and audit you by the IRS if you donate to the wrong political party.

The list can go on and on and on.

Welcome to the police state. You have NO rights.


23 posted on 05/13/2011 10:17:49 AM PDT by TruthConquers (.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: WestTexasWend

Calculate the damages, if that falls into the range to make it a felony (or even a misdemeanor), I would say that that local Law Enforcement has the authority to arrest every ATF agent involved with the fire as a result of their stupidity...

Why protect your relationship with a Federal Agency if they are complicite in a feloneous act...

Greg Abbott??? Where are youuuuuuu???


24 posted on 05/13/2011 10:20:06 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: WestTexasWend

Incredible! But then it IS BATFE, and it IS the flippin’ the wee birdie Obama administration with support from long entrenched bureaucrats in Leftist created bureaucracies.

It’s all got to change. They, and theirs have to go.

We have to have the fortitude to flip the wee birdie back at ‘em, and follow up with a doubled fist.


25 posted on 05/13/2011 10:21:44 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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26 posted on 05/13/2011 10:21:59 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Bunch of dumbasses on parade if the didn’t account for the ban, the potential for kickouts etc...

This has huntsville wannabes written all over it.

If they did not at the very least ask for a receive fire fighters to standby the charge every damn one of em for destruction an endangerment of property.

ATF punk posers...


27 posted on 05/13/2011 10:28:09 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Nachum

I always thought the ATF would make for a GREAT store. One stop shopping for all your weekend needs.

But as a federal bureaucracy? Forget it.


28 posted on 05/13/2011 10:47:04 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: El Sordo

The stupid, it burns!


29 posted on 05/13/2011 11:19:26 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. *4192*)
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To: WestTexasWend

ATF - Another Texas Fire!


30 posted on 05/13/2011 11:29:05 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Literally!

: )


31 posted on 05/13/2011 11:34:38 AM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: WestTexasWend

32 posted on 05/13/2011 3:20:48 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: WestTexasWend

Stuck on stupid.


33 posted on 05/13/2011 4:02:57 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Squantos

Excitement for this evening is a shed/brush fire over by Apple Valley. Luckily for me the wind is from the east.

I’ve got these old Ray Bans with bronze lenses that can “see” smoke, even when the naked eye can’t. Something about the color contrast.

I followed the plume back down Buckboard, to check, and the FD way already there. Based on smoke now they seem to have knocked it down.


34 posted on 05/13/2011 4:29:35 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Cool.... Is there a model number on those glasses ?

That is good stuff .

ATF sucks....:o)


35 posted on 05/13/2011 4:42:05 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: WestTexasWend
Edwards said he's still investigating the burn and tallying the damage and response costs which he said the ATF promises to reimburse.

I'm willing to bet that the ATF will try and shuffle these costs off to FEMA somehow. FEMA has only given us 75% of the costs for the wildfires in Texas, and I bet when this is all said and done, we'll only get money from the ATF/FEMA to cover 75% of the costs of this fire as well. If it had been California, we'd get the full reimbursement, but it's Texas and they'll take another dump on us.
36 posted on 05/13/2011 5:39:21 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Squantos
That rather follows the pattern of the ATF though... do they ever ask? Whether it's kicking down doors of American Citizens, or distributing weapons to illegals to the south, or burning up the Texas countryside?... do they EVER ask? Of course not because they're UNACCOUNTABLE to ANYBODY. They should be ABOLISHED... as in YESTERDAY.
37 posted on 05/14/2011 9:05:07 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: Squantos; Tijeras_Slim

Can ya see nekkid wimmin with em too?! LOL! :-) Sorry... couldn’t resist. :-)


38 posted on 05/14/2011 9:11:26 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: hiredhand; Squantos

I can see nekkid wimmen with my eyes closed. ;)


39 posted on 05/14/2011 3:40:39 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Squantos

No model number, I got them in ‘85 and managed to preserve them by just using for driving.

If I can find out anything I’ll let you know. I’ve spotted at least three fires in the early stage with them.


40 posted on 05/14/2011 3:42:29 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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