I understand, I guess I'm just putting myself in their shoes when they DO get older and have to deal with this. It does make me sad. That should not be confused with me saying it's okay what they did. There's no correlation between the two.
I could totally see this happening. I knew kids like them. I had a friend that liked to set off fireworks in people's mailboxes. Or throw eggs at cars. The usual destructive shit. He never really grew out of it. I cut him loose pretty quick after high school. He got another friend of mine in trouble with the law simply because they were roommates.
One day, I do believe, they'll get it. And the education that comes from it will be catastrophic to them. Good.
The meth head tweakers in Southern Oregon are always ripping off emergency stuff like that. If it isn't nailed down or locked away you can bet it will be stolen.
So I had heard that because the kid crossed state lines to commit the crime, it could be a felony and he's old enough to be tried as an adult.
The worst thing I did when I was 16 was get arrested for skipping school with my friends and keep watch while they looked for pot in some old guy's shed. This kid takes the cake.
I don't know if I'm just getting used to it or not, but both my girlfriend and I agreed that there's a significant improvement in Gresham since late this afternoon. The street lights next to our place are definitely not as smoked over, that's for sure. I think a wind change has occurred. Something happened
It's the wind. or at least when I was watching the news at 5 in the morning that's what they said. The winds were coming strong from the east, now they are moving north kinda making the fire push against itself which is why it hasn't grown much this afternoon compared to the rapid growth this morning
lol we did that shit all the time. well, not the eggs at cars but we threw waterbaloons and shot them with super soakers
My first wave of thoughts are I really hope anyone or anyones family around this area are safe. This is vey tragic and I can only imagine what peril this is causing. My second thought I hope the kid(s) get fucked. Seriously. They straight up can get fucked.
You know, this is something I really don't want to get lost in this situation. People are sitting here getting pissed at these kids but don't seem to realize that a firecracker could have been a lightning bolt. It could have been a cigarette butt. Anything could have happened to cause these wildfires. The Northwest is like a Tinderbox right now. My son was saying just the other day: "Papa we should spray water on all the trees several times a year so that we could prevent forest fires." Now, that may or may not do anything but the point was that we have a young child looking forward at what we could do to prevent forest fires and make our forests human proof. The kids should be punished but they're always going to be the kids that accidentally started the Eagle Creek Fire and that's going to haunt them for the rest of their lives. They are just 15 year old kids that were on a school field trip. I bet this 15 year old boy really feels like shit. The bottom line is that we don't do controlled burns like we should and that creates situations where forest fires burn thousands of Acres.
Wow, the weather dude on channel 12 just said people are overreacting. It's just trees, all the buildings have been saved. The gorge gets lots of rain so everything will grow back but nothing has to be rebuilt.
See here's what I don't get: If we all know that 15 year old kids do stupid shit, why are we focusing on these kids instead of focusing on doing things to prevent forest fires like controlled Burns? Like I said before those firecrackers could have easily been a lightning bolt.
Native Americans used controlled burns for hunting purposes in the Willamette valley but there is no evidence that I've heard of that it was for forest management or hunting in the Columbia River Gorge. Some interesting little known history about the native americans in the Columbia River Gorge, they developed lamp oil from salmon they caught. The trading of salmon based lamp oil made them the economic hub of the PNW tribes. Other tribes would travel and trade with them. They also invented some basic gambling games.
