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News & ArtsWednesday, September 23, 2009
Two-Block Radius / News FIRE!
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Breaking-ish news! Someone set fire to a telephone pole across the street from The Stranger's offices a few minutes ago. Here is the pole, burning:
But then the cops showed up with three fire extinguishers and totally extinguished that motherfucker.
Then the fire department showed up to cool down the smoldering pole* and a local crazy woman who is known for loudly calling people "jackasses" ran up to the firemen and kept calling them jackasses and telling them to go fuck themselves, proving yet again that it is a fine, glorious thing to be a public servant. Nobody from The Stranger was injured in the Great Pole Fire of 2009. The end.
*That's what she said.
2
MIght this be the first Two-Block Radius hat trick? The Stranger above the pole, cop shop a block thataway, the fire station two blocks thataway.
4
You Stranger staffers should me more careful about throwing the matches you use to light your joints out the window...jeez.
5
dudes ... uh, maybe you shouldn't plaster the poles with two feet deep of posters ... ever thought of that?
6
Fire-fighting is a union job. If the police continue to fight fires, City Light employees will be forced to catch bad guys. The garbage collectors will begin writing parking tickets. Our entire society will crumble.
Please leave the fighting of fires to professional firefighters.
Please leave the fighting of fires to professional firefighters.
7
The daily poll should be about the pole. A pole poll.
Like, "which stranger staffer is most likely a closet arsonist?" or something.
Like, "which stranger staffer is most likely a closet arsonist?" or something.
11
Oh fiddlesticks. I must have just missed the fire. And the jackass lady, although I think I know who she is.
Wasn't posters on utility poles one of the very first cause célèbres of The Stranger?
Wasn't posters on utility poles one of the very first cause célèbres of The Stranger?
13
I kind of love the mental image of somebody setting fire to the pole while muttering to themselves, "Man, fuck all these fucking bands and there motherfucking posters!"
14
Today, in poll watching, I watched them erect a totem pole in the UW Tower lobby.
Not as cool as the Haida ceremonies on the islands, but not bad.
Nobody was lit on fire.
Not as cool as the Haida ceremonies on the islands, but not bad.
Nobody was lit on fire.
15
(Have you ever grabbed your computer's monitor to try to physically stop the flow of information as you hit "submit" simultaneous to realizing that an editing error left you with a "there" where you'd previously dropped a "their?"
Me neither.)
Me neither.)
16
Has anyone ever tried yelling back at that crazy lady? I would love to learn any hints or tricks to getting her to shut the fuck or at least move along.
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@16 It's always been my policy to minimize any direct interaction with crazies, as you can never be sure just how unstable they might be.
20
Oh man, I love crazy screaming lady! Especially because I live a block away, and she seems to either hang around the Police station, or the Hugo House. The best time to see her is right after she's been to her regular Harborview visit- she's strangely serene, that is until the meds wear off and she goes back to batshitcrazytown.
21
someone did the same thing to a pole in front of my apartment building a couple of days ago. coincidence?
23
Probably someone got tired of all the trash that all these bands who can't afford real advertising do to the polls.
24
I could see Wm. Steven Humphrey or Lindy West being a secret arsonist. Dan, Charles, Paul, Grant, Dr. Golob, Dom, Jen, blah, blah, blah, christhowmanyofyouarethere?!?... not so much. The former two I believe still have a juvenile, fun-yet-stupid streak, the latter... not so much.
Well, maybe Grant could be a secret arsonist too... I'm divided on that.
Well, maybe Grant could be a secret arsonist too... I'm divided on that.
25
Did it occur to anyone to try to put out the fire instead of taking a picture or posting about it?
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