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Discussion in 'Real Life Stories' started by Peter Griffin, Mar 29, 2012.

  1. #1 Peter Griffin, Mar 29, 2012
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    There are loads of dead weeds and sagebrush around where I live, it looks ugly and I personally enjoy setting things on fire. So I grabbed a lighter and some balled up newspaper. I find a spot that looks like its contained/isolated from large patches of weeds (this is important because there's a GIGANTIC wood pile and about 8 junk cars less than 100 feet away.) No more than a minute after lighting that newspaper I'm already thinking 'oh shit oh shit oh shit!"

    The fire was spreading and fast. There was no way to stomp it out as the flames were two feet tall and the heat was INTENSE. I said a prayer, "Dear Lord Jesus PLEASE let this fire go out." I ran and told my uncle so he could come help, meanwhile I was screwing 5 lengths of garden hose together FML The conjoined hoses ended up not being long enough to reach. By this time my uncle had came down with a snow shovel which he was skillfully using to smother the places where the flames would have spread fastest. Turns out he's had to do this before. We got the edges put out so there were now just a couple lone sage brush crackling as they burned up. We were blessed that there was a small path of green plant material which is what stopped the fire from getting to the wood pile and cars.

    I spent the next 30 minutes bringing buckets of water to pour on the smoldering fence posts and the roots of the sage brush which was smoldering and traveling underground! Oh ya, I was wearing only gym shorts and flip flops the whole time!

    edit: forgot to include that my uncle smoked a bowl with me after the shit storm was over
     

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  2. Only YOU can prevent forest fires...
     

  3. And, apparently, Jesus of Nazareth
     
  4. Every year of highschool someone would set the back of our school on fire. Im not proud of it but I started that tradition by accident. Me and my homey j were sparking a blunt and I dropped that shit walking up this hill and couldnt find it for a good 3min in the dry ass brown brush and bam shit just lights up a whole patch of brush and speads instantly. Grabbed the half burnt blunt and dipped out. Every year after that soemone set that shit on fire so they started having fire truck on our homecoming haha. To this day nobody knows it was the blunt
     
  5. I even singed the hairs off my big toe haha
     
  6. I'm sorry, but what did you expect to happen? Glad you handled it responsibly though.
     
  7. Lol this reminds me of last year when I was at my uncles farm and we decided to shoot a small propane tank with a 223 tracer in his field. I taped it to a post away from the grass so I thought it would be cool but the bullet punched 2 perfect holes in the can and created 2 separate jet flames that shot out out into the dry pasture on either side of the post igniting 2 separate large grass fires. The 5 gallons of water we had didn't do much. Luckily we had 4 people with us and shovels but I nearly died of smoke inhalation and burnt up a pair of boots pretty well.
     
  8. are you a redneck???
     
  9. I only enjoy fires in my fireplace. #firstworldproblems
     
  10. I could see this happening jn an episode of family guy....
     
  11. wtf..... real life fuckin storys ftw.

    I love getting shithammered and starting huge bonfires in the deserts after some good 4wheelin. Jack a bunch of pallets then race my buddys in my truck and loose a like 2 pallets in the whoops out the back of my truck while i spill my beer all over the place.....


    Goddam it feels good to be a redneck.
     
  12. did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?
     
  13. [quote name='"SkysDaLimit420"']are you a redneck???[/quote]

    I'm guessing australian....
     
  14. I'm kind of a redneck. I've shot geese with a shotgun while standing in my front yard. A neighbor from a quarter mile away walked over all pissed, and he claimed some bb's landed on his wife's VW Bug.
     
  15. Setting shit on fire is fun.
     
  16. Quoted for truth.
     
  17. I had a campfire tonight and I'm proud to report, it didn't get out of control.
     
  18. I set the field behind my house on fire with fireworks. The fire department had to come & put it out. I lied & stayed out of trouble, but I was only nine years old. The propane tank story is funny, sounds like the retarded shit I used to do 20 years ago. After nearly burning down my house with a big ass chimney fire, I've cooled my pyrobug.
     
  19. i am haha!
    OP my dad set the feild on fire so it would grow back the next year better. he ended up burning the neighbors cow pasture lmfao. but it was fun cause i got to run through fire trying to put it out got to shoot fire with my super soaker and after that didnt work i got the forewheeler out and just started ripping through haha! it was so fun. the forewheeler is what put it out too XD.
     
  20. Onetimes some guys in white robes burnt a cross on my lawn, turned out it was meant for my neighbor clevelands house
     

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