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TYRES SMOKED

It’s a great big pile o’ tyres ...
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... soon to become a belated celebration of Live Earth.

UPDATE. Another flamefest, with a musical twist:

Forty-four cars were destroyed in a massive fire at one of Switzerland’s largest open-air music festivals on Saturday, police said ...

About 35,000 people were at the three-day Frauenfeld festival, headlined by The Prodigy.

Posted by Tim B. on 07/14/2007 at 11:54 AM
  1. Sweet!  But that house looks awful close.

    Posted by aaron_ on 2007 07 14 at 12:08 PM • permalink

  2. That is just so cool.

    I need to get one of them for next time there’s a declared Moonbat Earth event.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 14 at 12:09 PM • permalink

  3. There go the bloody Prods filling up the bloody Earth with bloody CO2 they can’t afford to bloody set-off.

    Posted by Andrew on 2007 07 14 at 12:14 PM • permalink

  4. #2
    Scorched Earth?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 14 at 12:15 PM • permalink

  5. But wait, here’s Al!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 14 at 12:17 PM • permalink

  6. #4 Could be. It can only be a month or so before they plan some other stupid event to make themselves feel good.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 14 at 12:21 PM • permalink

  7. At least someone is taking positive steps to ward off the great global coldening.

    Posted by Ubique on 2007 07 14 at 12:44 PM • permalink

  8. I don’t mind the bonfire—in fact I love bonfires—but couldn’t they come up with something other than tires?  The stench alone is off-putting.

    Otherwise:  Spectacular!  Especially after all the Live Earth crap.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 07 14 at 01:06 PM • permalink

  9. People say that Northern Ireland hasn’t changed, but I think it is a wonderful gesture by the Ulster Protestants to display an Irish tricolour from the top of their bonfire!

    Posted by Ross on 2007 07 14 at 01:31 PM • permalink

  10. Three young people stand rather alarmingly close as the pyre collapses in on itself in the early hours of this morning

    You can just hear the hand wringing from the author of this article (or maybe the editors writing the captions). 

    These fools just don’t get it:  the fire is so hot that it’s cool.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 14 at 01:42 PM • permalink

  11. Well done Ross. You’re the only other person who’s worked out its true purpose.

    Posted by John A on 2007 07 14 at 01:45 PM • permalink

  12. The Irish are used to burning peat in their fireplaces, so they’d never notice the smell of burning rubber.  When it comes to constructing bonfires however, despite their centuries of tradition, they could learn a thing or two from Texans.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 14 at 02:09 PM • permalink

  13. With all of the fires going off in Britain recently you’d think that the Brits would be used to it.

    Here’s an alternative for the Prots. Next time, wait for daylight, get some oxygen and big fans, light the fire, turn on the oxygen and the fans, get the fire pumped up, and send the heat back to the sun. That way we can get rid of the heat that’s being trapped by all of that plant food in the atmosphere.

    Posted by Mike H. on 2007 07 14 at 02:45 PM • permalink

  14. the proximity of the house to the bonfire is a camera trick.
    they used a telephoto lens at infinite focus and backed off a ways down the road to capture the whole pile; (note how crisp and in focus the distant stand of trees in the background are)

    Posted by papertiger on 2007 07 14 at 03:28 PM • permalink

  15. I suggest that we make the UN move in there; they already have a good head start on the required flags…

    Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 07 14 at 03:38 PM • permalink

  16. Is it safe to say that we are all tired of the envirogoobers?  That we all feel that we have been tread upon and that no matter how long we go round and round that in the end we will will just get burned out

    yeah, I’m done.

    Not gone, just done.

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 07 14 at 03:44 PM • permalink

  17. Better bring the washing in, there’s gonna be a heap of black smoke any time soon….

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 07 14 at 03:46 PM • permalink

  18. #16: The Big Wheels in the global warming movement are dealing with an issue where the rubber meets the road, but they’re having trouble getting traction and heading for a major blow-out. But it’s ok: they’ve got a fully-inflated spare called climate change.

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 14 at 04:12 PM • permalink

  19. Re #14, papertiger, are you telling us the MSM is using fauxtography?  Say it ain’t so!  SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 14 at 04:16 PM • permalink

  20. Three young people stand rather alarmingly close as the pyre collapses in on itself in the early hours of this morning

    Pyre collapsed in on itself?  Call the makers of Loose Change, there’s obviously outside forces at work here.  Considering the strength/weight ratio of wooden pallets, there’s no way the tower could have fallen on its own.

    Posted by MDVega on 2007 07 14 at 04:46 PM • permalink

  21. #13

    Will they get some sort of green credits for that, like when you generate electricity and put it back into the grid?

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 14 at 07:14 PM • permalink

  22. And loooook! The same paper reports the duck invasion!
    Link

    Posted by ChrisPer on 2007 07 14 at 08:30 PM • permalink

  23. Mo, that’s Sydney’s realestate market.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 07 14 at 08:44 PM • permalink

  24. From previous:

    This Youtuber, although anti-Durkin, appears to have posted the post-doco debate in 7 parts:

    ABC’s TGGWS debate on youtube!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 07 14 at 10:32 PM • permalink

  25. #22: From the article on the armada of plastic ducks: “Ducks washed up elsewhere around the globe are fetching up to £1,000 each on eBay . . .”

    What are we waitin’ fer? Grab the suntan lotion, fill the coolers, pack the inflatable rafts and LET’s GO!

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 14 at 10:32 PM • permalink

  26. I was in Northern Ireland visiting a friend on a 12th Night some ten years ago. The morning after the bonfires I passed an intersection at which the Unionists had lit a massive fire - so massive that a pole supporting a traffic light had doubled over.

    At the time I assumed that it had melted from the tremendous heat but have subsequently learned that fire doesn’t melt steel.

    Posted by fidens on 2007 07 15 at 01:46 AM • permalink

  27. #26

    At the time I assumed that it had melted from the tremendous heat but have subsequently learned that fire doesn’t melt steel.

    But did you conduct tests, preferably involving a rabbit hutch, just to make sure?

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 07 15 at 03:17 AM • permalink

  28. Perhaps we could make John Butler our roving environmental ambassador and send him to Ulster to show the UDA and UVF the error of their ways.

    Posted by monaro on 2007 07 15 at 04:04 AM • permalink

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