Well, I was in Turlock, CA for my annual trip to get ripped off at the most expensive swapmeets in the land. My two brothers, one you know as SamIYam, the other John, and I decided it would be fun to camp out, drink some beers, and protect our swap goods from the night. (Actually, they thought it would be fun, I thought it would be a little crazy, especially with the 30% chance of rain) I agreed to camp out when I saw that there would be some heat to help us through the night in the form of an old school smudge pot. However, John thought the smudgepot would be a good way to recycle some of his old oil and tranny fluid. "I thought you were supposed to use diesel fuel in these things" Sam says, as I thought the same thing in my head. "No, Dude, this will work great" replies John Watching John light the smudgepot with a torch, we all had our doubts to the viability of the oldest brother's master plan to keep us warm. The beer kept our hopes up and we finally commended John on his efforts when the thing lit up and made that familiar sound of a burning smudgepot. Once that baby started going, the heat was intense. We sat for about a half hour or so enjoying the heat when...We started noticing a strange gurgling sound comming from the pot and whitnessed the metal around the smoke stack turning a bright red..."I don't think that sounds good, maybe it's getting too hot", says the little brother. We sit back down in our chairs and continue toasting our feet when all of a sudden, a little bit of flaming oil spills out through the vent hole and spills on the top of the smudge pot. "That's not good" someone says, and no sooner than the words roll out of thier mouth, there is an Exxon Valdeez size spill cascading down our glorious Swap Spot, holding a flame some 15 feet high. The flame grows and approaches big brother John's nice new truck. As little brother Matt approaches the truck for his camera (A photojournalism opportunity for the night) John yells to Matt, "move the truck!" "I don't have keys!" I said as I grabbed my camera and snatched this shot. Luckily we hadn't put out our merchandise for sale yet, and Luckily, the fire went the way it did, or we would have had a couple truck fires to deal with. What a trip.
so.. there's a big fire, and you're about to lose valuable property, and two of you run for your cameras? hahahaha
I love it! you guys are fuckin crackheads! Too funny. Don't you know that burning ATF is the primary ingredient of the JAMES BOND SMOKESCREEN(tm)? Glad no one or their stuff got burned. Glad you didn't get your asses kicked by the other people there!
That has'nt happened to me yet but I think the atf expanded from the heat and caused the overflow, I'll have to mention it to the guys at work before they light up next time, great pic though.
yea, we were toasted and we almost GOT toasted. The only think I could think of when it was goin' wild was "Glad my fuckin' car isn't parked here!" Sam! p.s. That pic was taken after that passerby got it under control.
[ QUOTE ] That pic was taken after that passerby got it under control [/ QUOTE ] hahahaha damn that's funny!
[ QUOTE ] p.s. That pic was taken after that passerby got it under control. [/ QUOTE ] Sam, Let me get this right. - Swap spot is burning, heading for the cars. - You're sitting in the lawn chair still warming your feet - Brothers are running for camera's - Somebody passing buy got the mayhem under control..... That's great. You could be a Texan with that story, anybody have a pic of the Texas Sherman Dennison show where the fire truck and cops ended the party?? TZ
I think I'm a Texan at heart. Yep, that pretty much is how it happened... but the fire was clearly headed AWAY FROM our stuff (with the exception of my brother's pickup, but he got that out of the way pretty quickly)... so I was like, shit, let it burn itself out... then all the sudden this guy who was riding his bike by runs up to the guys spot who was next to us, grabs two pieces of plywood that he was using as a table to display his stuff and then THROWS THEM ON THE FIRE!! (he had them covering his stuff because it was night time) Now because it was an oil fire, this guys boards got oil all over them. When it was all said and done, I was more concerned with this guys pieces of plywood that some dude riding by ruined because he wanted to play fireman. I apologized to him the next day and did my best to clean them up the night before. Also, the boards probably did more to scatter the fire. We actually got it put out by doing the bucket brigade thing with some hubcaps that our buddy Dan had... fuckin' Dan brings these god damned hub caps to the swap meet every year for the past five years and has never sold them... then they save our ass when some of the guys grab them to use as shovels to shovel dirt on "Trinoble" TM. Sam!
Looks like fun...We didnt start the fire, It was allways burnin sence the worlds been turning.... The roof the roof the roof is on fire...Im the fire starter, twisted fire starter. Thats enough Austin. Right.
I think I would have been more afraid of the EPA showing up than of the fire... What was the old post that showed a blurry picture of some drunken fracas with a dwarf in a flaming shopping cart??
Yea, we got to sleep after the fire blowing with rumplemints incident. Little brother in the Truck that almost burned up, Sam in Terry's Truck and John sleeping outside in the cool night air. I was sleeping real well when all of sudden I was awoken by 2 guys soaked with rain opening the truck up and disrupting my sleep.
geez i laughed so hard after seeing and readin this one , my late night glass a milk shot outta my nose ..... BWAAHAHAAAAAA !!
I actually spit hot chocolate all over the key board reading this. Now I have to take all the keys off and clean it thanks a lot!
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