Man burns homes fighting wasps
Tuesday, August 26, 2003 Posted: 1641 GMT (12:41 AM HKT)

ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) -- A man who tried to fight bothersome wasps with insect spray and a cigarette lighter burned down his apartment and two neighboring flats, Swiss police said.

A police spokesman said on Tuesday that the man used a whole can of insect spray on a wasp nest underneath an overhanging roof outside his apartment.

When he tried to fend off the angry wasps with his lighter, the fumes ignited and set the flats ablaze.

No one in the apartment block was hurt, but the blaze caused 500,000 Swiss francs ($351,400) in damage.

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The wasps will be back living there before he will.

And here I thought rednecks only existed in the U.S.

Rednecks know how to get rid of a wasp's nest....appears those city boys don't though!

Originally posted by es347fan
Rednecks know how to get rid of a wasp's nest....appears those city boys don't though!

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That is a funny story It is good that no one got hurt. How many wasp died in the accident? After all if this happened in America we would probably have to pay some sort of money's to the wasp and there children. :D

Originally posted by mad dog
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That is a funny story It is good that no one got hurt. How many wasp died in the accident? After all if this happened in America we would probably have to pay some sort of money's to the wasp and there children. :D LMAO. That is so true. You would have animal rights activists filing lawsuits on behalf of the wasps. Then they would try to stop them from rebuilding on the site for fear of more wasps being hurt or killed.

A while ago there was a mountain lion that attacked a hiker. The lion was captured. Funds were set up to help both the lion and the hiker and the lion easily took in more money. This was California, of course.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
A while ago there was a mountain lion that attacked a hiker. The lion was captured. Funds were set up to help both the lion and the hiker and the lion easily took in more money. This was California, of course. Im surprised they even tried to collect for the hiker.

Man, I WISH people could sue on behalf on the environment.

Oh great. Some loony environmentalist would sue everyone in this country that owns a car.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
Oh great. Some loony environmentalist would sue everyone in this country that owns a car.

Good; The current state of our environmental concern is destructive, nauseating, and immoral.

You're contributing to it as much as the rest of us.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
A while ago there was a mountain lion that attacked a hiker. The lion was captured. Funds were set up to help both the lion and the hiker and the lion easily took in more money. This was California, of course.

There was also another story in the news not to long ago about a snake. There was a rattle snake on a hiking trail, a women started screaming, a guy came over to see a snake going after her child. He pushed the snake back with a stick but the snake figured it would just go right back after the people. So he cut its head off. He might have to do jail time plus they took his truck and fined the sh** out of his arse. Quess who called the authorities, The dumb a** lady, and she testified that the man killed the snake. Next time maybe he won't bother helping someone in distress.

Originally posted by mad dog
There was also another story in the news not to long ago about a snake. There was a rattle snake on a hiking trail, a women started screaming, a guy came over to see a snake going after her child. He pushed the snake back with a stick but the snake figured it would just go right back after the people. So he cut its head off. He might have to do jail time plus they took his truck and fined the sh** out of his arse. Quess who called the authorities, The dumb a** lady, and she testified that the man killed the snake. Next time maybe he won't bother helping someone in distress. Omg....that is a true story? That is horrid. How could that lady testify against that guy for possibly saving her child? Or for that matter, how could anyone think about pressing charges in the first place?

I'm not sure what the out come ended up being as far as the jail time??? It just shows even when you do a good deed watch your back.

Be interesting to read that story & learn just what was going on. Think you can find it?

es347fan I think it was Rush or someone that was talking to the guy on the radio. He was from out west can't remember which state, if I can find anything else about it I'll post it.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
You're contributing to it as much as the rest of us.

I'm sorry, but do you know me? Obviously not.

Originally posted by Leper
I'm sorry, but do you know me? Obviously not.

OK, so what you're telling me is that you don't use electricity, you don't drive a car (or ride a bike using metals that were mined or processed), mow your lawn if you have one, use products with non-recyclable packaging, etc., etc? We all pollute pretty much by just existing. I'm sick of environmentalist loonies pretending that they're better than everyone else because they make the grand gesture of buying a Toyota Prius when they pretty much live the rest of the life like everyone else.