There's stupid, and then there's lighting up your fire pit while your country is in flames stupid.
As if the dense smoke filling the air over much of North America from Canadian wildfires wasn't enough of a warning, authorities in Nova Scotia have also instituted a provincewide ban on open fires. But that didn't stop one woman from enjoying a June night around the fire pit, even as she was just 300 feet away from the woods. What will stop her from enjoying her fire pit again is the nearly $29,000 fine she's incurred for setting an open fire on her private property. (CBC)
Scott's Thoughts:
- That's pretty dumb.
- How could you even want to sit around a firepit when you've been breathing in smoke from wildfires for weeks?
- She probably figured there's already so much smoke in the air, no one would notice her firepit.