I was staying with my cousin who lived in a farm in the country.  His dad (my uncle) had cleared some land to make pasture and my cousin and I were supposed to burn a stump pile each day, until they were all burned.  The very first day, I being from the city and thinking I was smarter than my country cousin, decided we should burn 1 stump pile each.  So we poured gas on one and started it for my cousin and I walked about 30-40 yards away and started another.  The stump piles were fairly big and dried from being pushed up months earlier.  Dog Fennel was everywhere in the pasture.  I got mine started and looked back at my cousins and he seemed to be having problems keeping his from spreading to the dog fennel, so I went over to help him.  After we got his back under control I in a few minutes, I turned to go back to my fire and it was WAY BIG.  After the whole ordeal was over, we had started a fire that burned over 4300 acres of land, two barns, 1 vacant house, and killed 75 head of hogs that were in a stable at one of the barns. 

I remember how scared I was when I seen the first helicopter drop water.......

What have you caused?

 

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I just read that to Susan, and all she could say "OH my GOD" and started

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Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

Political Correctness:
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“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”

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Craig Wyse

The artist formerly known as "wysecw"

"Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissary note, but today is cash in hand."

Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the hell is the ceiling

That's nothing compared to burning 4300 acreas, 2 barns, a house and roasting 75 pigs.

  

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Craig Wyse

The artist formerly known as "wysecw"

"Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissary note, but today is cash in hand."

Come on yall, I know that there are some of you that have really screwed up.  There is no way that out of this bunch that someone else hadn't messed up royally. 

 

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Damn Curtis, anything I could come up with (being the TRUTH) would make me look like a compared to you and your cousin...No way I'm even going to try and touch that one.

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I'm a Sagittarius...If you don't want to hear the truth then don't ask my opinion!
Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

Political Correctness:
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. 

“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”

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Ummmmmm Mail Boxes....Mail theft is a federal crime. Anyone convicted of vandalizing mailboxes or destroying mail deposited in them can be fined up to $250,000 or imprisoned for up to three years for each act, according to the Postal Service.

75 = 225 years and $18,750,000.00

  You got off lucky ...a juvie  

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I'm a Sagittarius...If you don't want to hear the truth then don't ask my opinion!
Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

Political Correctness:
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. 

“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”

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Offshore Fishing Team  ~  "Wake Me Up, If I Get A Bite"

I'm a Sagittarius...If you don't want to hear the truth then don't ask my opinion!
Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

Political Correctness:
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. 

“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”

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A large piece of the burned property was owned by my uncle, and of course most of the rest was neighbors that bordered his property.  As bad is it truly was, I was amazed that we both didn't get a spanking, well I didn't, my cousin may have and not told me. 

Ron, did you call me Stupid?

 

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I had a fort out in the woods and needed to clear some brush and tall grass so I saw on tv control burns and I tried it and it burned alright.

Before I could say sh---, the whole thing was on fire and then the woods. I still never told anyone. Talk about scared! Not of the police or fire dept. or the forestry guys.

My DAD!!!

I few days later I went out there. It was cleared real nice for about 10 miles. All the under brush was gone. Looked like a bomb went off.

Never played with fire again. Can you say stupid!!!!!! If the wind was blow'n the other direction the whole neighborhood would have been toast. Real lucky...

 Mark

 Pensacola,FL

I know what your talking about, I felt so helpless.  I remember that night going to bed and looking out the window of my coiusin's room and seeing some still smoldering embers in the dark..The funniest part is that honestly the two of us were trying to figure out a way to keep it from getting out.  Meaning the story about what happened, heck it was on the news and in the paper, I think there was even a special offering at church, but when we realized that it was going to be something we couldn't stop, both of us imediatley started thinking what is our coverup???????????

 

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Well Curtis...Let me put it this way...Susan calls paying such claims as paying for stupidity....

Such as

Leave house with food on burner, burning up house.

Parking on hill and get out of car only to see it roll down incline and hit something or end up in the water.

Having a lawn mower running with the blade turning and sticking your hand in the discharge to remove a stick. (a neighbor friend did just that. Was very lucky no more damage was done to his hand then it did.

Filling up boat with fuel, only to find out fuel was put in through a rod holder, and whatever result it caused.

and yes......starting a fire and it getting away from YOU. But I'll give you credit....you were very young. Not like a neighbor 3 doors down from me (adult) that was burning leaves and burned up 4 yes 4 yards before the fire dept could put it all out.

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I'm a Sagittarius...If you don't want to hear the truth then don't ask my opinion!
Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

Political Correctness:
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. 

“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”

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I can say, however, one of the worst things I ever did was cause a hot looking chick to get into an accident and not stopping to check on her.  We were both heading west on SW88th St in Miami, and she passed me and caught my eye.  I accelerated to catch up to her, got next to her, our eyes met - KABLAM - she rear ends a car at a traffic light - and like the responsible 16YO teenager I was, I kept going...have no idea how serious it was but I still feel real bad about not stopping.

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gettin' jiggy wid it

Actually, I have stories that could compete for shock value, however I will not mention them since the statute of limitations has not yet expired for those events! I am a changed man now, and I hope that karma stuff actually works for me. I routinely stop to help people (always if it is a woman) who are broken down on the side of the road, and I have saved 3 people with the heimlich maneuver. I do wonder why so many people get choked up around me...

Here fishy, fishy... look what I've got for ya

popfly (6/27/2008)

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Since so many of these deal with fire, I dug one up from way back in my memory.  I guess I was about 12 or 13.  Me and some freinds were camping out in the local woods.  Really that was just an excuse to rat the roads all night.  We wandered over to the local volunteer fire department where we knew they had an old Coke machine that sold Coke's for a nickel.  We went in and found the firemen sitting around playing poker and asked if we could get some drinks.  The guy in charge must have been losing and pissed of so he told us no and to get the hell out.  We felt there was no call for that and decided to get them back.  There was about five of us so we pushed the firetruck out the station into the middle of the road.  Well, there was a small hill and a firetruck can get a lot of momentum going in a short time.  it rolled into the school parking lot across the street.  We thought it was hilarious and decided to call in a fire to see what they would do.  They came running out, suiting up, but I guess because it was all lit up in the station and dark across the street, they couldn't see it.  There was a lot of yelling an cussing before they finally found it.    They got it and went off to respond to the false alarm.  We had a good laugh and went back to the campsite to lay low.  So what is essential for a campout?  A campfire.  Somebody must have seen the fire in the woods from the road and called it in.  Before long, here comes the fire department.  We figure we're busted for moving the truck and we all scatter and go home.  The next night on the news was a story about vandals who stole the firetruck and then started fires in different locations.  My folks were pretty suspicious about why I had come home around midnight from the campout, but never said anything else.   We did a few other things that made the news and even got me a ride in a police car once or twice.  Back then I was just having fun and couldn't figure out why nobody else had a sense of humor.  Now I'm a cranky bastard and don't tolerate such foolishness.  My 25 year class reunion is in a few weeks.  Maybe we'll make the news again for old times sake.  D'I'berville High Class of '83

Thats pretty funny.  I remember them days..it was great being a kid.

 

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I know there are a bunch of members that have really goofed up, go ahead and confess..

 

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One day on my way to work I heard a news story about a hit and run over the weekend that had resulted in a fatality.I was a Major Crimes Investigator for the Knoxville Police Department at the time. When I got to work, I asked my Sergeant who had the case. He didn't know what I was talking about so guess who now had the case. Anyway, I dug around and found that after a UT ballgame a vehicle had struck an intoxicated young man leaving a prominent night club. There were no accident reconstructionists on duty so one that happened to be working the ballgame as a side job volunteered and "investigated" the accident. Turns out he didn't keep the victims clothing or notify the medical examiner after performing a half assed accident scene investigation. The victims body had also been released to a funeral home the night/morning of the wreck. The "investigating officer" was on his days off and hadn't even filed his preliminary report so I had to track him down and get what I needed to get started. This is two days after the fact! Though the cause of death was obvious, for legal purposes to pursue this as a vehicular homicide/murder a forensic autopsy was required. We were behind the curve on this thing so I had to get permission from the family to have an autopsy performed. ( I had secured a court order and had the medical examiner waiting but was hoping I wouldn't need it.)

I tracked down the funeral home and discovered the family had arranged for their loved one to be on display in his apartment for receiving friends that evening. This is where I became known as the body snatcher.I arrived at the deceased's apartment to find his family and friends arriving and a few already there viewing him in the main room. I spoke with his father and convinced him that we needed an autopsy to prosecute his son's killer if and when I found him. He agreed so the funeral home loaded him up and took him to the awaiting medical examiner. We had him back in time for the funeral the next day. Not a big event but a little different.

On a side note, the victim's girlfriend commited suicide later the same day he was killed. Apparently they had been arguing at the club and he had left because of the argument. I did track down and obtain a full confession from the killer. He plead gulty and received three years probation.

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Still in Knoxville,TN but working on it.

Thanks for all the info. Lets go fishing! Can't wait to meet more of you folks.             Hal, you owe me a beer!

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