Colorado/Smokers Beware
Jun 14th, 2002, 06:20 AM
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Be sure to dial those numbers from your cell phone while driving through the mountains west of Denver to report a butt thrown out the window. Be sure to get a pen and paper and wrote down the plate number while driving your car in cruise control. yeah that's smart. or better yet, dial 911 and tell them it's an emergency.
Jun 14th, 2002, 07:23 AM
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Addicts will do anything to reverse the logic of what is in the public interest: to protect their addiction, they will put the ability to behave as badly as possible at the top of the list of "democratic virtues."
It's the 10-year-old "you're not the boss of me" warping of all argument.
It's the 10-year-old "you're not the boss of me" warping of all argument.
Jun 17th, 2002, 08:48 AM
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Mr. Troll no one blamed the fire on smokers. This thread is simply a warning to please be careful. Why are some smokers so upset by this? I would think that if you smoke you would be grateful for this warning. I would bet that ALL smokers at one time or another have tossed their lighted cigs out the window, not with any malice intent but simply not thinking abut it.
This past weekend I was up at Keystone, I watched a well-dressed middle aged women flick her cigarettes into a pile of wood chip mulch. The second time a waiter politely brought her an ashtray explained the fire danger. She was apologetic, but until that point she thought it was fine to throw her nasty cigs where we could all enjoy them.
Is it asking to much of smokers to use an ashtray and not to litter?
This past weekend I was up at Keystone, I watched a well-dressed middle aged women flick her cigarettes into a pile of wood chip mulch. The second time a waiter politely brought her an ashtray explained the fire danger. She was apologetic, but until that point she thought it was fine to throw her nasty cigs where we could all enjoy them.
Is it asking to much of smokers to use an ashtray and not to litter?
Jun 17th, 2002, 12:21 PM
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"""Hmmmm, after blaming all the smokers it seems that it was a forest ranger who started the fire. Now what do you have to say?!"""
So I guess my list of "The Things That Smokers do to Piss Me Off" goes from 1,076 to 1,075. Thanks for the head's-up.
So I guess my list of "The Things That Smokers do to Piss Me Off" goes from 1,076 to 1,075. Thanks for the head's-up.
Jun 17th, 2002, 01:22 PM
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travellyn, I had not heard that. what a waste.
Saw this in todays Vail newspaper
"Smoking is already prohibited in the national forest, except in building and cars, and state troopers will be on the lookout for drivers flicking cigarettes out of car windows."
Saw this in todays Vail newspaper
"Smoking is already prohibited in the national forest, except in building and cars, and state troopers will be on the lookout for drivers flicking cigarettes out of car windows."
Jun 19th, 2002, 12:32 PM
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Part of an article in the Denver paper OP/ED section today:
"It may be harder to stop people from smoking on public lands, but the government also should permanently bar people from lighting up in national forests and parks unless they're inside buildings.
During 2000's awful fire season, smokers ignited nearly 3,900 wildfires on federal lands, incinerating more than 100,000 acres. In the rare cases that cops catch someone tossing a burning cigarette on the ground, they probably just write a ticket for littering. They should arrest the idiots for attempted arson.
If you doubt how seriously a tossed cigarette threatens public property and human lives, just ask the thousands of people whose homes are in the path of the Missionary Ridge inferno near Durango, a blaze investigators believe was caused by some imbecile flinging a still-burning butt onto the tinder-dry ground."
"It may be harder to stop people from smoking on public lands, but the government also should permanently bar people from lighting up in national forests and parks unless they're inside buildings.
During 2000's awful fire season, smokers ignited nearly 3,900 wildfires on federal lands, incinerating more than 100,000 acres. In the rare cases that cops catch someone tossing a burning cigarette on the ground, they probably just write a ticket for littering. They should arrest the idiots for attempted arson.
If you doubt how seriously a tossed cigarette threatens public property and human lives, just ask the thousands of people whose homes are in the path of the Missionary Ridge inferno near Durango, a blaze investigators believe was caused by some imbecile flinging a still-burning butt onto the tinder-dry ground."
Jun 19th, 2002, 12:39 PM
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Newspapers are now reporting that the Forest Service worker intentionally set the fire and that it had nothing to do with the ex's letter. Today's NY times reports it was set intentionally using brush to make it look like the fire jumped the fire ring. Idiot.
Jun 19th, 2002, 12:44 PM
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I haven't bought that ex husband letter story from the beginning. It just seemed there had to be something else. Who would love the forest so much as she supposedly did and do something like that with a stupid letter. There have been rumors ever since she "confessed" that she set it intenionally to put it out and look like a hero but it got out of control before she could. Whatever the case she has some screws loose.
Jun 21st, 2002, 06:18 AM
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To all you non smokers, I guess you all NEVER pollute? You don't drive, you don't put out trash on trash day, you never take a dump, you never gag people with your perfume? Listen, alot of people who smoke would like to quit, but it has been proven it is harder than heroin to quit. So...why don't you all lighten up. If you don't like smoke, stay away! Most people are trying to be considerate when they smoke. Its just like anything else, where there are the bad apples. Last I checked, its still legal.
