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Renaissance_Slacker t1_ixuwotp wrote

Reply to comment by harleyspoison267 in TIFU by believing my neighbor's chickens were in mortal peril. by MisanthropicCeliac

I would love to know the cost to society of all the fires caused by smokers. I’m sure it’s horrific.

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harleyspoison267 t1_ixvgefa wrote

My fiance is from the southwest (LA originally, then many years in Phoenix), so he takes the whole cigarette thing very seriously. I live in Ohio where that stuff is pretty uncommon so people throw their butts out the car all the time and he gets so upset because that causes major fires all the time in the southwest.

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SithRose t1_ixwlvbp wrote

I had an old water bottle for butts even in Ohio and Kentucky because I grew up in Colorado. I get it. It bugs me too.

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harleyspoison267 t1_ixwnw1l wrote

Oh yeah, y'all are absolutely right. It's illegal here to throw them out the window too, i just never realized the real consequences before. Most people i knew growing up threw cigs out the window at least on occasion.

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SithRose t1_ixwq6po wrote

It's not something you see the consequences of so vividly in the east. Watching a single spark-shower from a malfunctioning transformer within 20 feet of me cause a 4 acre fire to start *despite* me trying to stop it and then grabbing as many of the people whose houses backed up onto that bit of wild space to help defend the fences while the fire department arrived when I was 12ish had a very strong effect on me.

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harleyspoison267 t1_ixwqm8l wrote

Oh wow, I'm sorry, that sounds deeply traumatic. I look back on how i grew up with very little fire safety but we just didn't really ever need it, and also got lucky, I imagine.

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SithRose t1_ixwrv8e wrote

Well, of all the 12 year olds in the neighborhood, I was probably the best equipped for it to happen to, at least? :) (I got a lot of wilderness survival training...which included fire response.)

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harleyspoison267 t1_ixwx7yk wrote

A wilderness explorer eh? Is your name Russel perchance?

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SithRose t1_ixwxfen wrote

😆 Let's just say that this was well before Pixar, much less UP. 😀

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