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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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Original post on fire, with sheriff's reaction, here >>>

http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/news/local/story/Lubbock-ATF-Motley-county-fire-explosives/dw2e9lnv-EiwrY1nflU-UA.cspx

1 posted on 05/13/2011 9:39:33 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: WestTexasWend

Anyone who would set off explosives during a burn ban is a real Waco, uh, wacko...


2 posted on 05/13/2011 9:42:08 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 842 of our national holiday from reality. - OBL Dead? The TSA can go away!)
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To: WestTexasWend

Jeeze, even Jamie, Adam and crew know to go to a large dirt lot like an old quarry to blow stuff up!


3 posted on 05/13/2011 9:43:13 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (osama gets 72 virgins. We get 72 versions...)
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To: WestTexasWend

LOL! That is mighty stupid!


4 posted on 05/13/2011 9:43:34 AM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor (There are permanent moral truths.)
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To: WestTexasWend

More quality entertainment from The Gang That Couldn’t Think Straight.


5 posted on 05/13/2011 9:43:55 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: WestTexasWend

“That to me is a corner on stupid,” Edwards said.”

I think that is the very mission statement of the BATF.


6 posted on 05/13/2011 9:44:39 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: WestTexasWend
The ATF has a history of setting fires in Texas


7 posted on 05/13/2011 9:44:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CougarGA7

I guess we know where Roy Weaver went after leaving the park service.


8 posted on 05/13/2011 9:44:58 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: WestTexasWend

Whoops.


9 posted on 05/13/2011 9:46:06 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (e)
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To: WestTexasWend

We’re the federal government, we’re here to help. Actually we are here to make problems, set fires, and cost people money. We’re the ATF, we can do whatever we want!


10 posted on 05/13/2011 9:46:45 AM PDT by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: WestTexasWend

ATF — we don’t listen to nobody — we will not be held accountable to anybody. Screw the state and its citizens.

Solution: cut off funding PERIOD


11 posted on 05/13/2011 9:46:55 AM PDT by George from New England (Escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: WestTexasWend

Just.... Damn.


12 posted on 05/13/2011 9:47:00 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: freedumb2003

Yeah,

Blow up the Cement Mixer.

BOOM!


13 posted on 05/13/2011 9:47:32 AM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

A little payback by the White House?

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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14 posted on 05/13/2011 9:49:47 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: roaddog727

>>Blow up the Cement Mixer.<<

I never get tired of that one! It just gets ERASED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m48j9INPICo


15 posted on 05/13/2011 9:53:41 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (osama gets 72 virgins. We get 72 versions...)
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To: dfwgator

YOUTUBE: The FLIR Project

16 posted on 05/13/2011 9:54:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islamophobia: The fear of offending Muslims because they are prone to violence.)
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To: WestTexasWend

I would LOVE the sheriff to arrest them the same as he would any rednecks who pulled a stunt like that. Poeple in CO have been jailed and charged for slash fires that got away.


17 posted on 05/13/2011 9:55:27 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: null and void

Sounds to me like they ain’t the sharpest tack in the box.


18 posted on 05/13/2011 9:58:32 AM PDT by RC2
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To: WestTexasWend

Charge them with violating the burn ban. In Texas, that is pretty serious.

How stupid can stupid get?

Yikes


19 posted on 05/13/2011 9:58:35 AM PDT by texmexis best
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To: WestTexasWend

I don’t believe Rick Perry will be amused.


20 posted on 05/13/2011 10:06:41 AM PDT by Pebcak
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