Friday, August 24, 2007

The hazards of working for the Forest Service

Just announced over the building intercom system (cough):

"There has been an accidental release of pepper spray on the second floor. If you can avoid the second floor, please do so."

I am starting to choke up (really).

Gotta go.

6 comments:

Doogman said...

What happened? Someone accidentally sit on their dispenser? (ooh... BAD mental image on that one... that stuff BURNS)

Or perhaps it was one of the culinary mavens trying to 'kick it up a notch' and kicked the grill right off the porch...

Horseplay? Dueling spray-cans?

Those wild, impetuous kids.

Somewhere Smokey the Bear is chuckling in that deep, syrupy voice of his.

KIA said...

Let me tell you -- I would not one to be a direct recipient of that stuff. Holy cow!

I'm not sure what happened but they told everyone to take the rest of the day off. Funny how it happened on a Friday....

Tomorrow I'm going out with some Forest Service dudes to check out "outlaw cabins" so maybe they will have details on the, ughh, incident.

David said...

So much more exciting than Quark!

Hard to believe that anything could be, but there it is.

Doogman said...

I don't know about it being "more exciting than Quark" - from what I've heard about the upper management, pepper-spray was only the FIRST line of defense, followed by tasers, zipcuffs and Sears clothing (for those REALLY out-of-control execs.)

HW said...

What is an "outlaw' cabin? People building on state or federally owned land?

Pepper spray is bad. Every once in awhile, a student would spray some in the hallways. They did not call off school though. Who is running your place???

KIA said...

Yes, indeed, an "outlaw cabin" is any sort of unauthorized/unpermitted structure built on federal lands without approval, special use permits, blah blah blah.

As for who's running the place -- our wonderful U.S. Government!