[stone monkey]

A bunch of fire engines have pulled up in front of my house and disgorged their occupants, who started scurrying around like particularly purposeful mice.
It would seem that one of the empty houses on the next street over has been set alight. There are a load of empty properties around here, as the area is due for regeneration over the next few years. Compulsory purchase orders were flying around all over the place for the past few years. Not on my house though, my landlord would have made a mint and I would have had to be rehoused and received a load of compensation... But I was born under an unlucky star...

Anyway. It's a fair blaze that would appear to have been going for quite a while as it has burned through the roof of the property. The streets are being closed off to deter gawkers like myself and to stop through traffic.

As the flashing lights and noisy pumps are parked right outside my front door, I would hape everything gets sorted out pretty quickly. Mainly as I have to be up for work in the morning to start my new job and my bedroom is at the front of the house. Selfish, I know; but there's nothing I can do about the rest of the situation, as it doesn't concern me. So all I can really do is whinge about the possible inconvenience it might cause me personally...

[edit - Thanks for the friendly mod deletion... I'm really bad at starting topics... ]

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 07 June 2009 - 11:00 PM

[D'rek]

Grab some sticks and marshmallows??

[stone monkey]

I had been considering throwing a couple of my neighbour's children on to it. But I can't get that near to the fire or the children. And I think she might object.

[Mezla PigDog]

It should save on some regeneration demolition work! Good luck with getting a kip tonight. Firemen like to drag their jobs out.

[stone monkey]

Well, if I'm still posting on here at four in the morning, you'll all know why. I had wanted to be in work early tomorrow too....

[Sixty]

stone monkey, on Jun 7 2009, 07:11 PM, said:

I had been considering throwing a couple of my neighbour's children on to it. But I can't get that near to the fire or the children. And I think she might object.

I lol'd.

This post has been edited by Sixty: 07 June 2009 - 11:53 PM

[stone monkey]

They've finally buggered off and I can think about going to sleep now. They could at least have been more considerate about where they parked their great big noisy engine. People are trying to sleep, for goodness sake!

I mean what is the world coming to when a man can't sleep at night because the fire brigade are outside his house and making loads of noise, risking their lives to save someone's property. It's political correctness gone mad, I tell you...

[Darkwatch]

You should have gone out with a cup of tea wearing your "robe de chambre" (the english name escaped me) and tried to start a conversation with the guy at the pump.

[bubba]

bugger.....still have to work on that IP/GPS tageting system....that Laser beam didn't hit anywhere near APT's location.






@Mezla....We don't like to drag out anything but hose(Bubba=Firefighter)

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Darkwatch, on Jun 7 2009, 05:29 PM, said:

You should have gone out with a cup of tea wearing your "robe de chambre" (the english name escaped me) and tried to start a conversation with the guy at the pump.

bath robe?

[Bhurnae]

bath robe/dressing gown..........

[chill]

Britain: It would appear that one of the houses near me is on fire!

Anywhere else: FIRE!!! FUCK!!! WE NEED SOME HELP OVER HERE!!!!!!!

[Tapper]

chill, on Jun 8 2009, 10:57 AM, said:

Britain: It would appear that one of the houses near me is on fire!

Anywhere else: FIRE!!! FUCK!!! WE NEED SOME HELP OVER HERE!!!!!!!

Here, they'd start taking pictures.

[caladanbrood]

Yeah, I'm suprised there wasn't a posse of late-night revellers with camera-phones going...

[Abyss]

Bubba, on Jun 7 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

bugger.....still have to work on that IP/GPS tageting system....that Laser beam didn't hit anywhere near APT's location.
...

I still say we should have gone with the 'retasked surplus soviet satellite down the gravity well' option. At least with retro-rockets we can adjust mid flight. But noooOOoooo, you just HAD to go all Ronnie Reagan and use the laser and now look what happened... How the fuck did you target Scandinavia and instead almost wipe out a forumite in the UK??? Admit it, you forgot to factor in planet rotation motion and atmosphere deflection angle again, didn't you? Fuck.

Now we have to scrub all the forumites locations out of the system, reboot the AI and start all that calibration and co-angulation test crap again.

*sigh*... okay, tell Assail to stop complaining about the burns and start running again and Stone Monkey, please remember you saw nothing.


- Abyss, ...KNEW the satellite was a better idea but does anyone listen, nooOOoooo....

[Zanth13]

lasers and satelites are to high tech to work on Apt, he is too Choatic to ever be tracked down or targetted like that... you need a simplier method, such as poisoning the beer in Aptland.... or a crack team of Ninja Pirates

[Slow Ben]

With their throwing staaaarrrrrrs?

[Abyss]

I say we borrow a page from Goodkind and send in red- leather clad sado-masochistic ninja lesbians.

- Abyss, ...wait, no, let's keep those... and send Apt pics...

[Tiste Simeon]

All I ever get round here are ambulances bombing up and down the road, all the time!

Disclaimer: This is due to the fact that I live next to a huge hospital, and nothing to do with any nightly escapades I most definitely do not embark upon...

[bubba]

Abyss, on Jun 8 2009, 10:22 AM, said:

Bubba, on Jun 7 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

bugger.....still have to work on that IP/GPS tageting system....that Laser beam didn't hit anywhere near APT's location.
...

I still say we should have gone with the 'retasked surplus soviet satellite down the gravity well' option. At least with retro-rockets we can adjust mid flight. But noooOOoooo, you just HAD to go all Ronnie Reagan and use the laser and now look what happened... How the fuck did you target Scandinavia and instead almost wipe out a forumite in the UK??? Admit it, you forgot to factor in planet rotation motion and atmosphere deflection angle again, didn't you? Fuck.

Now we have to scrub all the forumites locations out of the system, reboot the AI and start all that calibration and co-angulation test crap again.

*sigh*... okay, tell Assail to stop complaining about the burns and start running again and Stone Monkey, please remember you saw nothing.


- Abyss, ...KNEW the satellite was a better idea but does anyone listen, nooOOoooo....

I forgot to carry the one....my bad.