Arrested for Using a Flamethrower Instead of a Snow Shovel

He must be related to the guy that loosen his car lug nuts with a shotgun...

how the elites are winning u know, low iq retards around.

Can you really loosen lug nuts with a shotgun?

Even though its satire, it's funny as hell!

Here's the source: [link to fmobserver.com]

(It's like the onion website).

One commenter said he's from Fargo and he knows a person who's friends with the guy.. Doesn't mean it's real, but it might be.

This guy should move to my area, he'd fit right in.

No Shame With The Flame!

Kudos for owning something that will counter the MRAP, more people need them.

Police say that Fox surrendered his efforts immediately upon their arrival and that his front yard “looked like a hydrogen bomb had gone off.” They think he was just happy to be done with snow removal, even if it did mean a trip to jail. - See more at: [link to neighborshame.com]

I bet he was a GLP member

Could have been a lot worse.

VIDEO PROVES THAT GLPers ARE CORRECT --

This footage is a year old, and the snow is melting, turning to liquid.

Check it out!

With the stuff now in Louisiana, Georgia, Michigan, Cincinnati, and elsewher...

It would turn black.

It would not melt.

It would recede/sublimate.

Fargo, ND – Local resident Todd Fox has been detained for “reckless endangerment” and “illegal use of high-powered fire-breathing weaponry” for attacking snow with his flamethrower. Fox reportedly became so fed up with the week-long blowing snow epidemic in his area that he decided to KILL IT WITH FIRE. - See more at: [link to neighborshame.com]

Fargo, ND – Local resident Todd Fox has been detained for “reckless endangerment” and “illegal use of high-powered fire-breathing weaponry” for attacking snow with his flamethrower. Fox reportedly became so fed up with the week-long blowing snow epidemic in his area that he decided to KILL IT WITH FIRE. - See more at: [link to neighborshame.com]

All the while reading it I knew it was genius.

When I saw the picture, then read that "his front yard looked like a hydrogen bomb had gone off”, it made me smile just a bit. I wished it was true.

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Thing is, I've spent enough hours shoveling snow in my life that I've often mused about plausible alternate methods for snow removal...or, its total annihilation.

One three foot snowfall will ultimately wall in the parts of my car that the plow missed while compressing our block's worth of snow next to it. With wide sidewalks and shallow front yardage, there really is nowhere to put the snow...unless you want to walk across the road and try to position each shovel-full 'just so' against the vacant hillside.

There have been times my shoveling motions have become so mechanical I must look something like a machine, rhythmically catapulting masses of snow directly across the roadway with a precision that would have made my physics professor proud. The force, and its subsequent achieved velocity, pretty much warrants that the deposited snow will never affect an avalanche...which would -should my assessment have failed- not really cause anything more than the loss of a couple of parking spots on my block, anyway.

Of course, you pretty much need a good deal of wet snow for this maneuver, as it will not work on the dry fluffy stuff.

If you wish to try this, but have asthma as I do, make certain you use your inhaler properly well before venturing out, and be prepared to not use your arms for a few days for any more heavy lifting...although a nice hot bath with epsom salts will help you back on your, ahem, feet (so-to-speak) in no time.

All the while the mind continues to wander: how does one eliminate this mess in an effective, thorough fashion?????

I once envisioned having a heatable dumpster, then realized that besides being an extreme eyesore against the sheer beauty of fresh fallen snow, it would need to be properly drained into the sewer system, lest it then create an ice problem for everyone downhill of me. Bad idea.

The same goes for heated sidewalks, which would also lead to ice, besides not solving the problem of a snowplowed snowed-in car. Why bother?

Sooooooo, short of constructing a laser device -which I have previously thought of developing for easier tree pruning and removal services- the ONLY viable method would, in fact, be a flame thrower...or, for the urban dweller, something more in line with a simple plumbing torch, as seen here: [link to images.drillspot.com]

The only problem I see besides the exact physical maneuvering such a method would involve -such as lying prone on the ground to burn horizontal 'layers' from top to bottom- once again goes back to all the water it would create that did not immediately turn into a steam or gas to simply float away.

Anyhoo, knowing that my battle with where to put all that snow is not about to disappear by simply willing it away (oh...hmm), I now have a silly hat to wear while shoveling.

It makes the task a bit of fun, which helps me merrily muse away on other pressing problems, such as how to stop my neighbor's english ivy from strangling everything in my garden. Although slash and burn is a joy to envision, it is really only one of those pipe-dreams that keep me smiling in silence. Shh.


thanks, op! Fun thread!

Police: Man Used Bombs to Clear Snow
[link to www.cbsnews.com]

i think this takes the cake lol plant some tnt into a snow bank boom what snow hehehehe