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2009-02-11 Down Under

Angry Aussie fire survivors blame council 'green' policy

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Posted by tu3031 2009-02-11 11:10|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 My Dad (82 at the time) cleared a 80-foot wide & 300-foot long swath of brush on a "State Protected" 'wild growth area' (read - wildfire hazard) in southern California adjacent to his house. Borrowed a bobcat from a nearby home construction site. Did it over a weekend.

When the state DNR folks came looking soon after for who did it, he and his neighbors (who were and still are quite happy this happened as this hazard abutted their properties, too) told them that the "Mexicans probably came and got the stuff for firewood".

During the last big area brush fire, it didn't seriously affect any of the homes adjacent to the 'cut'. Fire did get the homes down the hill that weren't cleared away, though.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-02-11 12:04|| 2009-02-11 12:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Environmentalists will gladly trade 200 deaths so that they can keep the land as they like it. To their thinking, there are too many humans already and we're due for a cull.

Posted by gromky 2009-02-11 12:11|| 2009-02-11 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps culling the environmentalists is the answer:>)

Posted by Xenophon 2009-02-11 12:41|| 2009-02-11 12:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The effect of out of control emotions and green a-holes. I like #3's suggestion. Soon.

Posted by Trader_DFW 2009-02-11 13:04|| 2009-02-11 13:04|| Front Page Top

#5 We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down.

In a just world, or a world even 70 years ago, the bureaucrats would have been the ones cut down soon after.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-02-11 14:08|| 2009-02-11 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 The Green Plan all along.

Stage #1 has been successful.

Stage #2 will be to prevent owners from rebuilding.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-02-11 18:25|| 2009-02-11 18:25|| Front Page Top

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