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Well, THAT sucks…. Sounds like when the pier in Atlantic City was torched.

It’s hard not to think it was deliberate. The pier had stood unused for some time and the local council were trying to compulsorily purchase it. Unfortunately, they were up against a company registered in Panama (!) that wasn’t replying to letters.

Question is, what insurance company would pay out on a claim like that? It’s as much as you can do to get those devious bastards to pay out on a genuine loss!

compulsorily purchases CAN bring out the worst in people….

Piers make perfect sense for coastal transport. It’s a lot cheaper to build a pier than a deep-water coastal anchorage for ferries where there’s no natural harbour or inlet. UK beaches tend to shelve very slowly, which means you have to go a long way out before there’s enough draught without constant dredging.

Ryde pier, second longest in the UK, is under maintenance at the moment. If it were destroyed you’d have to take a detour to Fishbourne, and it would be chaos. People were not happy about it hen I was last there.

I Wonder how’d they’d like people setting their stuff on fire?

ugh, Seems like there’s alot of that going around over here too. Most of it over here is delibrate, so the idea that is isn’t much of a stretch.

It was some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground!

Am I really the first to make a “Smoke on the water” reference to an old rock venue that burned down?

I have a very nice pic of the Eastborne pier, but being from Florida I was so disappointed in the cobbly seashore there. It’s a shame that someone would torch the old gehls.

Not everyone loves the British seaside.

Heh. Very funny, Joan. Not without its truthiness, though anyone who lives in London — or, as we like to call it, Mogadishu — mustn’t throw stones.

For some reason, I got audio only. No video, which I assume exists. Buffering issue, maybe.

w00t! I am the #1 Google hit for “Barney Frank teeth.”

As in, “he hasn’t got any.”

Seriously, Massachusetts — elect somebody who can afford some fucking dentures, please. Thank you.

OK< WAY off topic, but this was too funny not to post…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pn4kZyqVRU

Scubafreak: I’ve seen that video without the subtitles, and I laughed my fuzzy tail off! Shared it with my partner, and several friends, and they also appreciated the humor. Yes, definitely worth posting here. 🙂

I hope no one was injured. Badgers usually show up before the Big Red Trucks do, and I am always glad when I can tell dispatch to inform FD that building is unoccupied. The worst is when you pull up, and can smell roast person. I wa at a trailer fire once in the late ’80’s, that was in a 1960’s era mobile home, that had urea foam insulation. Urea foam insulation goes WHOOM! when it ignites. All that remained was the frame rails, when I got there, and the smell. The occupant had gotten out, but decided to try and go back in to retrieve objects, and was caught when the insulation went up. Fortunately that stuff is banned, but there are still some older trailers that have it.

I wonder if a North American Fire Department could have saved it? I know in Europe, the pumpers tend to be 2000 liter a minute pump equipped, while here in the US and Canada, 1500-2000 gallon per minute is the norm. That extra 250-500 gallons can make a big difference. Since we don’t have to take narrow pre motor vehicle urban and village streets into consideration, Seagraves and Pierce Arrows are much larger and more powerful than Dennises or Merrywethers.

Is there no subject that one of us minions doesn’t know an unhealthy amount about?

Quite amazing…

I’ve just run across a television show set in Port Isaac, Cornwall; where one of the characters was burning a badger. On a funeral pyre. Do they do that often, do they? Burn badgers, I mean?

They don’t call it Port Isaac, though.

I don’t know, but I wouldn’t put it past the Brits. First, they go on a pier building binge, and now they’re on a pier burning binge. It’s probably just some newer pagan rite. 🙂

Dammit Weasel! Just when I had that image washed clean you just had to bring it back. This must be some new form of coercion. How about Barneyboarding?

I hope it was a dead badger,

I can’t think of seaside holidays without remembering that charabanc trip, years ago.