RE: [Paddlewise] expired flares

Great story Julio!  I promise, I was laughing _with_ you.
Up here in wild, woolly Alaska <g> we can get away with firing off expired
flares out over the water on July 4th; but is there really any reason (other
than boyish urges) to actually fire off old flares?  Wouldn't it be safer
and just as effective to simply soak them in a bucket of water until they're
rendered ineffective and then dispose of them through the appropriate agency
in your locale?  I'll bet that the HazMat collections that many communities
seem to have these days would also take in old flares and dispose of them
properly.

Dave Seng
Juneau, Alaska

> -----Original Message-----
> From: juliom_at_cisco.com [mailto:juliom_at_cisco.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 2:55 PM
> To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] expired flares
> 
> 
> What do we do with the expired flares?
> 
> I tried to fire one last 4th of July.  
> To avoid trouble with police and fire dept I chose to fire them
> in what I thought it was a controlled environment--the bathtub. 
> 
> The thing must have bounce several times between walls and eventually 
> found its way out of the shower and fell on the floor.  Everything
> was black around me, and the only thing I could see was that bright
> pink sparking thing on the floor.
> 
> I spend the rest of the weekend venting the smoke, cleaning up the
> black good from the bathroom walls, and changing the floor vinyl.
> 
> Lesson learned: do not try this at home. ;-)
> But in the experience I also learned that it would be extremely hard
> to fire one of those aerial flares with cold hands in rough seas.
> 
> Anyway, does anyone know where to fire aerial flares without getting
> in trouble?
> 
> - Julio
> 
> 
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