Here we go again... Smores anyone?

[Lawrence]

So, I was driving back from work when all of a sudden I had to go from 80 mph to zero in a few hundred feet. Why? you ask, because people are retarded.
Let me explain and do my best Keith Olbermann impersonation of "The worst person on the planet".

Worse: The moron who started a brush fire in the canyon adjacent to the one where I live. Mind you it is a virgin canyon, there are no homes, OHV trails, or hiking trails, so unless brush instantaneously combusts, someone started this mess by deliberately throwing something.

Worser: The morons who drive 80 mph on the freeway and suddenly stop to look at the action. Better yet, quite a few of them left their vehicles to watch and/or take pictures.

Worst: No, it's not Billo, but rather our beloved CHP. There were two units stopped on the freeway watching the action alongside the morons mentioned above. Now, since when is it ok for people to use the freeway as a parking lot? I didn't see any CHP officer even remotely attempting to tell people to get moving, much less giving them a ticket. I bet you that if I parked my truck in the middle of the freeway to go take a leak, I would be in jail by now.

Anyway, the fire is a couple miles from my house and besides all the smoke it seems under control for now. There were 2 helicopters dumping water and about 20 fire trucks in the area. On the other hand, if it jumps the freeway, this could be trouble as the area is heavily populated and heavily wooded.