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Topic: Absolute stupidity: burning down the band office
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Frank Cox
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Posts: 2234
From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 03-05-2014 02:01 PM
I have a fax to send to the administration office of one of the local Indian reserves. I tried sending it on Monday morning but all I got was "ring-ring-ring", no answer from their fax machine.
Ok, I thought, it's out of paper and nobody has noticed yet. Since this fax isn't particularly urgent, I'll try sending it again tomorrow.
So now it's Tuesday morning, lets try again: "ring-ring-ring". Nothing. Interesting. Lets phone the band office and ask them what happened to their fax machine. "ring-ring-ring-ring". Nothing at that number either. This is odd too, but sometimes they close for someone's funeral, so I'll just call them again tomorrow (i.e. today).
When I phoned this morning the person who answers the phone there actually answered. "Hi, did you know that your fax machine isn't answering the phone?" "Yeah, we don't have a fax machine any more. In fact, we don't have anything at all any more. Someone burned the band office down. I'm in the gymnasium with this phone and a card table."
Now I'm pissed off on their behalf. She told me that nothing was stolen or anything like that, someone just decided to burn it down.
Well, that reserve is pretty isolated, so the only people who would do that are the people who live there and get services from that office; why burn it down? It just seems like the ultimate in absolute idiocy. That band has a reputation for being one of the "tamer" ones, too, and the Chief is one of the most truly competent people that I know. She told me that the tribal police are looking into it but I'll be rather surprised if they manage to catch the culprit unless he starts bragging about it somewhere.
It's a nice bunch of folks who live there. They didn't do anything to deserve that.
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 03-07-2014 12:28 PM
If it was arson, then possibly an insurance job, or someone wanted to settle a score with the property's owner? That having been said, there was an article in the LA Times a few months back reporting that unexplained house fires are becoming more common, and that firefighters are increasingly believing that small device chargers (for cellphones, tablets and the like) placed on top of flammable materials - piles of paper, that sort of thing - are to blame. Very frequently, the seat of the fire turns out to have been close to where these things were left operating.
The exhaust flues of clothes dryers are another big culprit (after reading that article I cleaned out ours, and the gross and disgusting crap in there had to be seen to be believed!), but there wouldn't be one of those in an office building.
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