ABCC On Fire

[Gearhead]

My wife went down to the conference center to check on the condition of the Bay Church building and the parsonage (The parsonage's siding is melted off and all the screens are melted away) and here's this woman standing in the backyard of the parsonage smoking. Can you guess what she did? Yep, as she stood there looking at the destruction from a brush fire that wiped out 45 homes,

SHE DROPS HER CIGARETTE ON THE GROUND!

How can someone be so S T U P I D!!! My wife stared at her until she stepped on it, and she continued to stare her down until she picked it up.

The fire marshall is there today to determine the cause of the fire, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was another ignoramus with a cigarette.

I posted it earlier, but I'm going to do it again. Charge 'em ten cents deposit per cigarette, and they get it back when they return them. We'll see a lot less of this around, and it literally won't cost them a dime if they pick up after themselves.

[Rattlesnake Gal]

I couldn't help but cry last night when we saw the coverage on Channel 9. Very sad.

Originally Posted by Gearhead

My wife went down to the conference center to check on the condition of the Bay Church building and the parsonage (The parsonage's siding is melted off and all the screens are melted away) and here's this woman standing in the backyard of the parsonage smoking. Can you guess what she did? Yep, as she stood there looking at the destruction from a brush fire that wiped out 45 homes,

SHE DROPS HER CIGARETTE ON THE GROUND!

How can someone be so S T U P I D!!! My wife stared at her until she stepped on it, and she continued to stare her down until she picked it up.

The fire marshall is there today to determine the cause of the fire, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was another ignoramus with a cigarette.

I posted it earlier, but I'm going to do it again. Charge 'em ten cents deposit per cigarette, and they get it back when they return them. We'll see a lot less of this around, and it literally won't cost them a dime if they pick up after themselves.

Unbelievable! I am shocked at how many times I have seen people throwing their cigarettes out of their car window. During dry times too. Gearhead, your 10 cent per cigarette deposit sounds perfect!

[Kings Bluff]

Like the comedian says " You can't cure stupid"

[dpg]

"As you can see in one of the photos,it's right behind Pop's fried clams."


Which is where???

[Argie's Wife]

Originally Posted by dpg

"As you can see in one of the photos,it's right behind Pop's fried clams."


Which is where???

Last photo, lower right hand side of the picture. It's the gray building with the Coke-a-Cola sign on it in the forefront of the picture.

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So far all reports I heard for what started the fire have said it was related to a brush fire and not a cigarette butt.

Seems to me that Alton has issues with large fires in April. Last year there were 40 acres burned on Mt. Major around April 25, if memory serves me right. Is this coincidence? Or is it that April is a dry, windy month for us?

[Waterbaby]

Originally Posted by dpg

"As you can see in one of the photos,it's right behind Pop's fried clams."


Which is where???

If you are heading into Alton Bay, from (and I'm really really bad with Route #s and road names so please bear with me) the AB traffic circle, I think it's Route 11, so the Bay would be kind of right in front of you but a little left to your vision, you can either go straight or you can bear left, and that goes around the "bottom" of the Bay, then you have to curve hard right by (I think) Busy Corner and JP China will be on your left, to keep the water on your right ........... Then you are going up the "left" side of Alton Bay (if you were looking at a chart, lol). You would pass the huge parking lot in AB where there is a bandstand and what looks like an old train station, and Pop's would be in a kind of ramshackle building on the left..............

Good heavens, I sound like a New Englander giving directions -- which I am!!!!!!!!!