# Burning US flag proves fatal **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180 "2012-09-19T15:38:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhaegar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/51bf81/32.png) [@Rhaegar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhaegar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/1 "2012-09-19T15:38:49Z")
[American Flag Defends itself](http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/18/protester-dies-after-inhaling-fumes-from-burning-american-flag/) A small bit of irony which gives new meaning to the “Don’t tread on me” motto. And the flag they are using appears to be a “homemade” version which is not even done properly. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/2 "2012-09-19T16:46:58Z")
Hooray senseless death? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/3 "2012-09-19T16:53:11Z")
“Don’t play with fire” is always good advice regardless of what you’re burning. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/4 "2012-09-19T17:05:55Z")
Glazed flags are the new smallpox blankets. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/5 "2012-09-19T17:19:42Z")
Fiery protests indeed. Funny how the american flag makers are probably just about the ones getting anything out of this train wreck. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/6 "2012-09-19T17:43:38Z")
> [@Rhaegar](#): > > And the flag they are using appears to be a “homemade” version which is not even done properly. Hey, don’t insult the beloved 9 stripes and 18 stars! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/7 "2012-09-19T18:52:24Z")
Key the tiny violins, Francis. I now predict a sneaky Al Quaeda plot to kill all the attendees at a SuperBowl by lighting the field-sized flag on fire at halftime. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/8 "2012-09-19T21:27:35Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Hey, don’t insult the beloved 9 stripes and 18 stars! I giggled. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/9 "2012-09-19T22:07:33Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > Fiery protests indeed. Funny how the american flag makers are probably just about the ones getting anything out of this train wreck. As it happens, [wrong](http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/16/12579414-in-pakistans-largest-city-old-glory-is-flammable-and-profitable?lite&google_editors_picks=true)! > [@](#): > > The man who dominates much of the supply chain of American flags to religious groups, 30-year-old Mamoon-ur-Rasheed – who’s been publishing anti-American placards and hand-made stars and stripes since his school days, when he was angered by the Clinton administration’s sanctions on Pakistan following its nuclear weapons testing in 1998 – is now remarkably dispassionate about his services, as well as about the short shelf-life of his flammable goods. > > “We work hard for our product, and we get paid for our product,” says Rasheed, clad in a camouflage baseball cap and seated behind a desk that takes up most of the space in his eight-by-six-foot office in Gulashan-e-Iqbal, one of the city’s oldest working class neighborhood. > > “So what if it burns? The purpose of the flag is to last for an hour. It’s unfortunate, but if the demand is for an hour, then the supplier must meet such demand too,” he says. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/10 "2012-09-19T23:45:54Z")
I remember a poster on this board, who witnessed, in Ottowa, Canada an attempt to burn the American flag. It was done by the Phelps family, you know, the “God hates fags” klan. According to this poster they had trouble getting it to burn properly, and so a RCMP officer stepped forward and said _“here, let me show you how to do that safely. I don’t want you to get hurt and be treated in our hospitals, with our money.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/11 "2012-09-20T01:24:42Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Hey, don’t insult the beloved 9 stripes and 18 stars! I was impressed at how much time and effort went into the flag until I read further on and discovered a tent industry. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/12 "2012-09-20T02:05:37Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > According to this poster they had trouble getting it to burn properly, and so a RCMP officer stepped forward and said _“here, let me show you how to do that safely. I don’t want you to get hurt and be treated in our hospitals, with our money.”_ That must have been one dumb Mountie. You have to be Canadian to qualify for free healthcare in Canada. Non-residents are billed for their treatment. And you can bet the Phlololpses would be billed; they can \*afford \*it. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/13 "2012-09-20T02:09:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I remember a poster on this board, who witnessed, in Ottowa, Canada an attempt to burn the American flag. It was done by the Phelps family, you know, the “God hates fags” klan. > > According to this poster they had trouble getting it to burn properly, and so a RCMP officer stepped forward and said _“here, let me show you how to do that safely. I don’t want you to get hurt and be treated in our hospitals, with our money.”_ THIS is why I am against universal healthcare. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/14 "2012-09-20T05:57:43Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > THIS is why I am against universal healthcare. Why, exactly? Non-residents don’t get to partake of a nation’s universal healthcare. Not in Canada, and not here if we ever implement it. Or are you against UHC because people might do stupid things on accident, like lighting themselves on fire? Guess the ER better start turning away firework accident victims. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/15 "2012-09-20T06:05:08Z")
I had a good laugh on this one. I also like the fact that a a few ragheads usually get killed when they start firing off their guns into the air-the returning bullets take out a few at every demonstration. “Death to America”=death to a few stupid ragheads.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/16 "2012-09-20T06:39:47Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Why, exactly? Non-residents don’t get to partake of a nation’s universal healthcare. Not in Canada, and not here if we ever implement it. Or are you against UHC because people might do stupid things on accident, like lighting themselves on fire? Guess the ER better start turning away firework accident victims. :rolleyes: I like to think he means: because it will cover the Phelps too. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/17 "2012-09-20T08:39:05Z")
“Ragheads”? [del]Stay[/del] At some point become classy, **ralph**. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/18 "2012-09-20T11:51:08Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I also like the fact that a a few ragheads usually get killed when they start firing off their guns into the air-the returning bullets take out a few at every demonstration. “Death to America”=death to a few stupid ragheads. If only your tongue had remained within your cheek. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/19 "2012-09-20T12:11:27Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I had a good laugh on this one. I also like the fact that a a few ragheads usually get killed when they start firing off their guns into the air-the returning bullets take out a few at every demonstration. “Death to America”=death to a few stupid ragheads.😃 People exhibiting rage are rage heads. You spellcheck failed. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180/20 "2012-09-20T13:07:30Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I had a good laugh on this one. I also like the fact that a a few ragheads usually get killed when they start firing off their guns into the air-the returning bullets take out a few at every demonstration. “Death to America”=death to a few stupid ragheads.😃 Reported. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-us-flag-proves-fatal/635180.md?page=2)