Stop stealing my firewood

Well, not mine, but I was told a story about wood theft.
There is a rural area with a cabin. The owner would split wood and leave a pile for the next time he was there. The pile would be gone when he came back.
He bored a hole in a log, filled it with gunpowder, and carefully drove a wood plug into the end of the open hole. He then took a small trim cut on the end of the log with a chain saw so the plug could not be seen. He added that log to the pile for the thief to blow up their wood stove.
Snopes would say unverifiable, I think.

Hey you woodchucks! Quit chuckin’ ma wood!

Hope that guy is absolutely sure that whoever is taking his wood isn’t also going into his cabin and using his stove.

I think it is very illegal to do stuff like this.

Reminds me a little of the p*ss drinkin’ bully thread from a couple months ago

Except that just involved drinking a little peepee; this story involves the detonation of a potentially lethal shrapnel bomb.

Or stealing it to sell to unknowing customers.

Perhaps Limburger cheese would have been a better filler. :slight_smile:

Dogshit would have been a good filler too. Plus there’s the added bonus of when it’s on fire and they go to stamp it out…

I sure hope it wasn’t sold to WPIX. Could you imagine the damage reigned over the Tri-State area?

“Tragedy struck the Tri-state area today as channel 11’s beloved Yule Log exploded. Its been estimated that thousands of TV sets in 3 states were damaged by the blast. Local Best Buys, PC Richards, Targets & Wal-mart stores have been left reeling from the demands, with most stores completely out of TV sets. A management source who refused to be identified said truckloads of more TVs should be arriving on Tuesday. Governor Cuomo has applied for Federal disaster relief. Senator Shumer has called for an investigation into the safety of transmitting religious themed music over the public air waves. And Governor Christie’s staff have issued a statement indicating that the governor will propose new Yule Log broadcast safety regulations when he returns from Disney World in 2013.”

Beat me to it!

It’s very amusing until it causes an explosion, that burns a house to the ground, killing the family inside.

Psh. Gunpowder logs are for pansies. Whatever happened to staying up all night with a rifle to shoot trespassers stealing your logs?

So, you’re saying he should have just peed on the logs?

It’s just another of those chores that country folk have which city folk don’t have, I guess.