Don’t these people have bomb ranges? Why do I have the suspicion that this was an “impromptu” training exercise…. What would be the result if a “private citizen” had done this?
Burning people would probably fall to DHS, although since ICE is busting (the wrong) people for child pr0n instead of covering the border, there’s no telling what agency would do it. Maybe DOE, you know, (soylent) green energy.
These guys ought to be tarred and feathered for this. We haven’t had any real rain for months. 200+ counties in Texas are under burn bans (including this one, from the article), and the west has had 200K acres’s worth of wildfires already. There’s no way they could not have known this was a stupid idea.
I live a few counties over from Motley. The whole region is a tinderbox right now. A mentally handicapped child would have known that playing with fire was a bad idea. Since the mentally handicapped are generally relegated to executive positions in the ATF, I don’t know what these guys’ excuse was.
May 12th, 2011 at 9:53 am
Ahh the ATF; what can’t they fuck up?
May 12th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Ummm, isn’t Texas already on fire? Did they think “oh, one more fire can’t hurt”?
May 12th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Don’t these people have bomb ranges? Why do I have the suspicion that this was an “impromptu” training exercise…. What would be the result if a “private citizen” had done this?
May 12th, 2011 at 10:36 am
At least they’re not burning people.
May 12th, 2011 at 10:57 am
Burning people would probably fall to DHS, although since ICE is busting (the wrong) people for child pr0n instead of covering the border, there’s no telling what agency would do it. Maybe DOE, you know, (soylent) green energy.
May 12th, 2011 at 11:12 am
They blamed it on a rabbit for restarting the fire. The only way a rabbit could start a fire is if the rabbit was on fire.
May 12th, 2011 at 11:24 am
These guys ought to be tarred and feathered for this. We haven’t had any real rain for months. 200+ counties in Texas are under burn bans (including this one, from the article), and the west has had 200K acres’s worth of wildfires already. There’s no way they could not have known this was a stupid idea.
May 12th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
I live a few counties over from Motley. The whole region is a tinderbox right now. A mentally handicapped child would have known that playing with fire was a bad idea. Since the mentally handicapped are generally relegated to executive positions in the ATF, I don’t know what these guys’ excuse was.
May 12th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Sure… blame a rabbit randomly running across the road to the sight of an explosion.
Translation… “we f’ed up”.
May 12th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Forest? Have you ever been to the Texas Panhandle?
May 12th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
ATF – Always Think Forestfires
May 12th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
“We’re federal agents! A fire would’nt DARE start or get out of control on us!”
May 13th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
as someone who has lived in Lubbock county for a decade I assume there was no forest fire, that would require trees