Well, that was an interesting day...
Dec. 5th, 2002 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erilynWhile we were watching Chamber of Secrets, the sound flickered and jumped a couple of times. We were gonna complain, but right at the end it happened again when the lights were on, and we noticed that the lights flickered too. We asked when we left, and they told us that there were lots of power surges due to bushfires. When we got outside, there were masses of thick, dark smoke clouds in a couple of directions, that definitely hadn't been there when we went in.
Excuse me? I know it's a long movie, but how frigging long were we in there for? And of course, there's always that first paranoid thought that it might be local. (And according to today's paper, there was a fire in Lindfield, which is the first we've heard of this, and there's no details, so we're a mite confused.)
A number of houses were lost yesterday, particularly up around Glenorie. Fucking awful.
On top of all this, some fucker tried to run our neighbour off the road in front of us as we drove home. He was stopped illegally, then started to pull out right in front of her without indicating, she beeped her horn and kept going, so he pulled out and tailgated her so badly that she pulled over and let him past. It happened so quickly, and was a bit of a scare. We got his numberplate, but she's decided not to pursue it.
Listened to the radio lots, since you get more up to date and varied coverage, not just what the tv stations have footage of. So many people were ringing in with complaints about people throwing cigarette butts from cars. One guy had to pull over and put out a fire that someone ahead of him started. There are no words strong enough for those people.
Excuse me? I know it's a long movie, but how frigging long were we in there for? And of course, there's always that first paranoid thought that it might be local. (And according to today's paper, there was a fire in Lindfield, which is the first we've heard of this, and there's no details, so we're a mite confused.)
A number of houses were lost yesterday, particularly up around Glenorie. Fucking awful.
On top of all this, some fucker tried to run our neighbour off the road in front of us as we drove home. He was stopped illegally, then started to pull out right in front of her without indicating, she beeped her horn and kept going, so he pulled out and tailgated her so badly that she pulled over and let him past. It happened so quickly, and was a bit of a scare. We got his numberplate, but she's decided not to pursue it.
Listened to the radio lots, since you get more up to date and varied coverage, not just what the tv stations have footage of. So many people were ringing in with complaints about people throwing cigarette butts from cars. One guy had to pull over and put out a fire that someone ahead of him started. There are no words strong enough for those people.
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Date: 2002-12-04 05:17 pm (UTC)Did it disrupt the movie much? Best one I ever had was a bomb threat right in the middle of Alien 3 and we got evacuated for half an hour or so, then end up going back in to finish off the movie. *g*
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Date: 2002-12-04 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-09 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-05 02:24 am (UTC)Try "fourteen years in jail". Has a nice ring to it, eh? New law. Any moron convicted of throwing a cigarette butt can be charged with arson. About bloody time. Now they just have to get the law through parliament.
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Date: 2002-12-05 02:50 am (UTC)Personally, I think a fitting sentence would be people going around to their place and throwing lit cigarettes around. See how much they like it then *g*.