A couple of strange/annoying things happened over the weekend

[Hills Hoard]

We had our Australia Day Holiday over the weekend and had a few funny/strange/annoying things happen..

Saturday. I call my friend in the Country Fire Authority and ask if its OK for me to burn off a pile of branches. He said there were no restrictions in place in my area and that I could go nuts if i wanted. So I start burning off and that's when it all started. This pile of branches was on a part of my property near the road and I had all these people stopping their cars, getting out and telling me off for burning off. I suspect these people were confusing "fire danger period" with "total fire ban". I got real sick of having top tell people to go and check the CFA website to get their facts straight.

Then Sunday night I hear voices in my neighbors yard at around midnight. Knowing that my neighbor was away I grabbed a torch and went over. Sure enough i spotted to guys walking up their driveway. I asked who they were but they just asked who i was. I asked again, who are you and what are you doing on my neighbors property. ( i think there were a few f bombs in there and I may have been yelling).. They didnt want to answer and became argumentative so i went over and confronted them and also to get a good look at them...words were had, a minor scuffle ensued, a bottle was smashed and at that point I realised I was in a crap situation so after some words and reasoning they decided to leave....why didn't i just call the cops? Think before you run head first into these situations. That could of been a life changer!

 

[Beer Belly]

We had our Australia Day Holiday over the weekend and had a few funny/strange/annoying things happen..

Saturday. I call my friend in the Country Fire Authority and ask if its OK for me to burn off a pile of branches. He said there were no restrictions in place in my area and that I could go nuts if i wanted. So I start burning off and that's when it all started. This pile of branches was on a part of my property near the road and I had all these people stopping their cars, getting out and telling me off for burning off. I suspect these people were confusing "fire danger period" with "total fire ban". I got real sick of having top tell people to go and check the CFA website to get their facts straight.

Then Sunday night I hear voices in my neighbors yard at around midnight. Knowing that my neighbor was away I grabbed a torch and went over. Sure enough i spotted to guys walking up their driveway. I asked who they were but they just asked who i was. I asked again, who are you and what are you doing on my neighbors property. ( i think there were a few f bombs in there and I may have been yelling).. They didnt want to answer and became argumentative so i went over and confronted them and also to get a good look at them...words were had, a minor scuffle ensued, a bottle was smashed and at that point I realised I was in a crap situation so after some words and reasoning they decided to leave....why didn't i just call the cops? Think before you run head first into these situations. That could of been a life changer!

"Life changer" ?......more like a "Life ender" ?

 

[jatoxico]

Took me a second to realize torch = flashlight. I was thinking wow, that must've been some scene! Glad it didn't go bad and you're OK.

 

[Wildo]

Sometimes its nice to have a sidearm.

 

[Beer Belly]

Sometimes its nice to have a sidearm.

Nothing wrong with a sidearm, but if you pull it, be ready to use....the other guy may be carrying too

 

[Warm_in_NH]

I thought everyone down there carried a big knife?!

 

[firefighterjake]

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[bassJAM]

Sometimes its nice to have a sidearm.

I don't think those are legal down under. Thank God for the 2nd Amendment.

 

[gzecc]

We had our Australia Day Holiday over the weekend and had a few funny/strange/annoying things happen..

Saturday. I call my friend in the Country Fire Authority and ask if its OK for me to burn off a pile of branches. He said there were no restrictions in place in my area and that I could go nuts if i wanted. So I start burning off and that's when it all started. This pile of branches was on a part of my property near the road and I had all these people stopping their cars, getting out and telling me off for burning off. I suspect these people were confusing "fire danger period" with "total fire ban". I got real sick of having top tell people to go and check the CFA website to get their facts straight.

Then Sunday night I hear voices in my neighbors yard at around midnight. Knowing that my neighbor was away I grabbed a torch and went over. Sure enough i spotted to guys walking up their driveway. I asked who they were but they just asked who i was. I asked again, who are you and what are you doing on my neighbors property. ( i think there were a few f bombs in there and I may have been yelling).. They didnt want to answer and became argumentative so i went over and confronted them and also to get a good look at them...words were had, a minor scuffle ensued, a bottle was smashed and at that point I realised I was in a crap situation so after some words and reasoning they decided to leave....why didn't i just call the cops? Think before you run head first into these situations. That could of been a life changer!

I think its strange that you are on the bottom of the planet (earth) and just don't fall off!

 

[Jags]

I think its strange that you are on the bottom of the planet (earth) and just don't fall off!

You think THAT is strange? Ever wonder what a chair would look like if your knees bent the opposite direction?

 

[Beer Belly]

You think THAT is strange? Ever wonder what a chair would look like if your knees bent the opposite direction?

 

[Jags]

Too much?

 

[Hills Hoard]

Sometimes its nice to have a sidearm.

Laws here are very strict when it comes to guns after some idiot named martin bryant went on a killing spree....

 

[bmblank]

It's always 1% that ruins it for the other 99%.

 

[Defiant]

Just another day in paradise

 

[DAKSY]

Sometimes its nice to have a sidearm.

Then again, sometimes a really BIG dog can be a wonderful deterrent.

 

[Warm_in_NH]

Then again, sometimes a really BIG dog can be a wonderful deterrent.

Yes, terrifying, he is!

 

[DAKSY]

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Yes, terrifying, he is!

Ooooo! Scary!

 

[Woody Stover]

Yes, terrifying, he is!

Yikes! Is that the still-beating heart of a trespasser on the couch next to him??

 

[Hills Hoard]

haha....this is my "guard dog"...he has a good bark, but he wouldn't know how to hurt anyone...

 

[becasunshine]

^^HEY. THAT LOOKS FAMILIAR. How'd my dog get to Australia? Without ME?

 

[Hills Hoard]

^^HEY. THAT LOOKS FAMILIAR. How'd my dog get to Australia? Without ME?

here he is the first day we got him....

 

[becasunshine]

We had our Australia Day Holiday over the weekend and had a few funny/strange/annoying things happen..

Saturday. I call my friend in the Country Fire Authority and ask if its OK for me to burn off a pile of branches. He said there were no restrictions in place in my area and that I could go nuts if i wanted. So I start burning off and that's when it all started. This pile of branches was on a part of my property near the road and I had all these people stopping their cars, getting out and telling me off for burning off. I suspect these people were confusing "fire danger period" with "total fire ban". I got real sick of having top tell people to go and check the CFA website to get their facts straight.

This reminds me of something that happened with us several years ago. My husband (who once seriously considered a career as a forest ranger, and he would have been good at it) had driven one of our sons back to college and was returning home through a rural and sparsely populated part of the state. While driving a back country road he came upon a fire in a road side ditch. It appeared to be centered around a pile of brush in the ditch, and there was a house on adjacent property, but no one was standing beside the fire. My husband could not tell if this was an intentional fire or something that had started from a random cigarette butt flicked out of a window that just happened to land in a pile of brush by the road.

The fire wasn't exactly lined up with the yard to the adjacent house, and per above, nobody was around. It wasn't dry at that time- in fact we'd had a lot of rain, and there was no burn ban, but here was a fire in a ditch by the side of the road with no supervision...

... so my husband diligently and thoroughly stomped that fire out with his feet, ruining a pair of leather topsider/boat shoes in the process.

Just as he was finishing up, stomping out the last smoldering bits, this guy comes running out of the house on the nearby property. He runs up to my husband shouting, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

My husband, ever the Boy Scout/future Forest Ranger, says modestly, "Well, you see, this ditch was on fire and I didn't seen anyone around so I stopped to put it out..."

My husband was expecting to be thanked, get a hand shake and go on his way. Instead-

"YOU STOPPED TO PUT IT OUT? YOU STOPPED- TO PUT IT OUT?? I'VE BEEN TRYING TO BURN OFF THAT PILE OF BRUSH ALL WEEKEND LONG! IT'S BEEN SO WET I COULDN'T GET IT TO LIGHT! I FINALLY GOT IT BURNING - I JUST WENT INTO THE HOUSE FOR A MINUTE TO USE THE BATHROOM- AND YOU COME ALONG AND PUT IT OUT! YOU PUT OUT MY FIRE!"

My husband couldn't think of a thing to say except, "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, there was nobody here, and and and..."

And then he got in the car and drove home. While that guy tried to get the brush fire re-lit.

And we had to buy him another pair of boat shoes.

The End.

 

[Hills Hoard]

This reminds me of something that happened with us several years ago. My husband (who once seriously considered a career as a forest ranger, and he would have been good at it) had driven one of our sons back to college and was returning home through a rural and sparsely populated part of the state. While driving a back country road he came upon a fire in a road side ditch. It appeared to be centered around a pile of brush in the ditch, and there was a house on adjacent property, but no one was standing beside the fire. My husband could not tell if this was an intentional fire or something that had started from a random cigarette butt flicked out of a window that just happened to land in a pile of brush by the road.

The fire wasn't exactly lined up with the yard to the adjacent house, and per above, nobody was around. It wasn't dry at that time- in fact we'd had a lot of rain, and there was no burn ban, but here was a fire in a ditch by the side of the road with no supervision...

... so my husband diligently and thoroughly stomped that fire out with his feet, ruining a pair of leather topsider/boat shoes in the process.

Just as he was finishing up, stomping out the last smoldering bits, this guy comes running out of the house on the nearby property. He runs up to my husband shouting, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

My husband, ever the Boy Scout/future Forest Ranger, says modestly, "Well, you see, this ditch was on fire and I didn't seen anyone around so I stopped to put it out..."

My husband was expecting to be thanked, get a hand shake and go on his way. Instead-

"YOU STOPPED TO PUT IT OUT? YOU STOPPED- TO PUT IT OUT?? I'VE BEEN TRYING TO BURN OFF THAT PILE OF BRUSH ALL WEEKEND LONG! IT'S BEEN SO WET I COULDN'T GET IT TO LIGHT! I FINALLY GOT IT BURNING - I JUST WENT INTO THE HOUSE FOR A MINUTE TO USE THE BATHROOM- AND YOU COME ALONG AND PUT IT OUT! YOU PUT OUT MY FIRE!"

My husband couldn't think of a thing to say except, "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, there was nobody here, and and and..."

And then he got in the car and drove home. While that guy tried to get the brush fire re-lit.

And we had to buy him another pair of boat shoes.

The End.

haha....whoops....I agree though, I would be suss on an unattended fire...!

 

[becasunshine]

haha....whoops....I agree though, I would be suss on an unattended fire...!

Yeah, I think that ultimately The Hubs was right- although when you gotta go, you gotta go... but somebody should have been out there, if for no other reason than to prevent my husband from ruining a perfectly good pair of boat shoes.