Press the Bovine Self-Destruct Button Comrades! Quickly! Before James Bond 007 arrives!
“Ranger Cabin”? HA! Obviously a Secret Mountaintop Bovine Lair™!
it’s just the Necromancers doing a Secret Cow Level run. they must have gotten impatient waiting for the 15th of May.
Pardon my question, but how could “blowing them up” possibly prevent water contamination? Isn’t the issue bacterial contamination from decaying flesh in the water?
Are they going to blow them into very, very tiny bits that even bacteria can’t feed on? Take off and nuke the cows from orbit, maybe?
I had the same question. Only the cows aren’t in water – they’re in a cabin. Still, how “blowing them up” will prevent water contamination isn’t at all clear to me. I’m sure all those dead squirrels, mice, and other creatures in the area don’t contribute a thinh to contaminating the water. But cows are walking vats of contamination.
“Or burn them”? Is it possible that the contamination problem is one of alien contamination? Maybe these are “things” like in the 1982 Carpenter film The Thing and last year’s prequel. They burned all those things, or blew them up, to prevent contamination! We must prevent alien replicating organisms from gaining a toehold, even in Colorado.
If you blast them into smithereens, those smithereens will decompose and/or be eaten by small critters a lot faster than just leaving a half-ton pile of festering beef.
Though the media has this story all wrong. The unusual part of it is that some cows got into the cabin, not that they’re going to blow them up. Using explosives to dispose of dead stock in wilderness areas is a pretty routine Forest Service procedure. Usually the issue isn’t water contamination, but big predators. If some unfortunate mule or pack horse dies on a trail or near a campground or cabin, they don’t want bears and other big critters learning that sometimes there are giant free meat feasts near places humans frequent.
I never did fully understand how chainsaws run counter to the Wilderness Act’s ethos, but dynamite somehow doesn’t.
:rolleyes:
There are certain cases where using explosives to blow the carcass into bitre-sized chunks is strongly contra-indicated:
The most famous example.
Funnier version:
Story:
There’s an entire website devoted to this:
There’s an entire website devoted to this:
What’s with the rolley eyes? I’m not talking about Joe Schmoe walking into a wilderness area to do some recreational chainsawing-- I’m talking about Forest Service employees who aren’t allowed to use chainsaws or any other form of mechanized equipment while doing trail maintenance and conservation work in wilderness areas, but they are allowed to use dynamite. Imagine you have to clear a big stump out of the way for a trail repair or drainage project. You can either cut it into pieces with a chainsaw and pull it out of the ground, or you can blow it up with dynamite. Which would you consider the lesser of those two evils, in terms of preserving a wilderness that provides tranquility and solitude and is free of human impact? Not that they use dynamite routinely (except for blowing up dead animals), but if there’s a project that can’t be tackled with hand tools, it’s currently easier for them to get permission to use dynamite than power equipment.
I suspect she thought you were talking about logging. I had no idea that Forest Service workers were not allowed to use chainsaws for trail maintenance. It now makes sense why there was a huge fallen tree in the middle of a trail on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Only in federally-designated Wilderness Areas. On normal Forest Service land they can use all the implements of destruction offered by the modern world.