Smoking mistakes
If you think Cleveland was smoky this week…Three anonymous teenagers in Martinez, California were looking for some special fun, but they got a lot more notoriety than they ever wanted. They started by building a little fire in a back lot. Then they threw a tennis ball into the fire and when it started to burn, they decided to hit it around with a baseball bat. One strike of the ball sent it into a patch of California’s dry weeds and that started their claim to fame. The weeds fired up a house and the house incinerated a car and the car ignited a propane tank…The two alarm fire burned only one house and the large storage yard, but knocked out power to 8700 neighbors for a couple of hours. Some news videos showed an immense fireball rise from the main fire during the peak of the blaze. No one was injured. The Fire department praised the “swift and overwhelming response” that protected most of the area from more serious damage. The boys hopefully learned, fire and California don’t get along.
The smoke of Success
It was 2am and a civic minded neighbor was driving through Clemmons, NC when he saw smoke pouring out of the roof of Ronni’s Pizza. Naturally, he called the fire department. Ronni’s had been around for over 27 years and is known as “Home of the Buffalo wings.” Both the Clemmons and the Lewisville fire departments came to the early morning rescue. It turned out that Ronni’s had an order for 10,000 chicken wings for Sunday and they were getting an early start. They had even rented a refrigerated truck to hold the food until they could cook it. Afterwards, the restaurant put out a message on social media: “Contrary to what’s spreading across Facebook, we DID NOT have a fire at Ronni’s last night! We DID have an unexpected visit from the fire departments. They made sure all was well, we fed them, and got a few laughs and a great picture. Thanks for all you do for our community!” The National Chicken Council predicted that Americans would eat a record 1.42 billion chicken wings on Sunday.
Smoking hot questions:
What do you call a chicken with no legs and no wings?
A chicken nugget.
An Irishman is pulled from a bar on fire. The firemen, in the interest of finding out the cause ask him, “What started the fire!?”
The Irishman, covered on soot, shakes his head. “Beats me. It was already on fire when I went in.”
If H2O is on the inside of a fire hydrant…What’s on the outside?
K9P.
Priest: “Do you have any idea who set fire to the Cathedral of Notre Dame?”
Quasimodo: “I have a hunch.”
Priest: “Let’s not make this about you.”
July 17th Birthdays
1993 – Billie Lourd, 1984 – Sarah Jones, 1995 – Jessica Amlee, 1969 – Beth Littleford
1977 – Eddie Shin, 1976 – Luke Bryan,, 1952 – David Hasselhoff, 1935 – Donald Sutherland