Mountain of cow manure that spontaneously combusted is now just smoldering

[underpants]

A huge mountain of cow manure is seen smoldering at a feedlot near Milford, Neb., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2005. The estimated 2,000-ton pile of burning cow manure spontaneously combusted about two months ago and continues to smolder despite attempts to douse it. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050128/480/ah20101280551&e=6&ncid=1756

[underpants]

1. ~*if you're goin' to Milford Nebraska......be sure to wear......*~

[matcom]

2. that's some tourist attraction!

:wow:

[underpants]

4. Hell I'd go just to see the "attempts to douse it"

:bounce: :scared:

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Did they really think a 2000 ton

pile of shit was a good idea?

:D

[underpants]

5. Yeah...uh...check with Bob in city planning on that one

I think that was his idea

[LiberalEsto]

8. Hey, they elected identical ones President and VP n/t

[underpants]

13. 66% for W (former football coach Tom Osborne took in a whopping 87%)

AND THAT IS HIS DISTRICT!!!!!!!! Too funny

http://www.house.gov/osborne/
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004//pages/results/states/NE/

[DS1]

16. I heard he's banking on catching the Hubble with it

:D

[liberalmuse]

6. Holy steaming pile of shit!

That's funny! Well, not really, if you consider all the methane that was released into the atmosphere...

[underpants]

9. It is "the perfect sh*tstorm"

Good point about the methane. How long do you think it will take the anti-environment crowd to get that into their talking points?

[jswordy]

18. The largest source of annual atmospheric methane...

...is TERMITES!

Aren't facts fun???

[Zuni]

24. that is interesting

I love collections of factoids like that

Did you know sheeps urine was once used a a cure for the plague?

[ET Awful]

7. Where you goin' Johnny?

I'm goin' skiin' there's fresh powder over on cowshit mountain!

One of my skiing friends once told me Nebraska didn't have shit when it came to mountains. . . I guess I'll have to tell him he was wrong :) :) :)

[underpants]

11. Good luck Johnny

:hi:

[matcom]

10. and here i thought there wasn't shit in Nebraska

:7

[Rainbowreflect]

15. Hey! And here I always thought I was hot shit!

;-)

[peekaloo]

12. Finally a monument for the Reagan/Bu$h years!

[underpants]

14. I wonder if their Congressman-Tom Osborne- set that up

http://www.house.gov/osborne/

[Zuni]

22. Yay! We no longer need the Reagan dime!

[CO Liberal]

17. Thanks For the Photo

I didn't get close enough to Bush's ranch in Crawford during my trip to Texas last week to get a photo for myself.

:-)

[jswordy]

19. The sad part of it to a farmer like me is...

...all the man had to do was make a modest investment in a propane sterilization facility and he could have been bagging and selling that stuff by the semi load as garden compost. (The sterilizer heats the manure to kill off bacteria and also weed seeds.)

We're probably looking at millions of dollars of compost sitting in those piles, at around $1 a 50-pound bag wholesale. Now, rather than a revenue source, it has become an expense item in his operation.

[Zuni]

21. I am sure it will be shipped to a fertilizer plant

[underpants]

25. Well you learn something new everyday

I really meant this as a joke towards exploding shit not the farmers.

I understand that manure can get very hot and a pile this size was just waiting for it.

Yes that does seem like a great revenue source if they had managed it well. Maybe they just won't get as much out of it but still get something.

[yellowdogintexas]

33. what a waste of good waste materials!!! I was coveting it for

my compost ...sigh...

[Zuni]

20. I hope all the tickets to manure mountain aren't sold out yet

I am hoping to see a huge, flaming pile of shit on my vacation

[guitar man]

23. Going to Washington DC on vacation?

:evilgrin:

[underseasurveyor]

26. This is the before photo.

'Dumbya' the beginning.


That flatulent pussbag creates nothing but:mad: huge burning shit piles where ever he goes x(

ay;-)

[underpants]

27. That's hilarious

:thumbsup:

[msgadget]

28. They look like regular li'l mountains,

good for climbing and such. I cannot believe they're actually huge piles of manure. Can we stop the farm subsidies yet? They've got plenty of fertilizer already.

[SOteric]

29. Good Lord! I read your subject line and thought

you were talking about congress.

[miss_kitty]

30. Why couldn't they push it around with a bulldozer

before it got so flaming hot?:dunce:

[underpants]

31. The bull was busy

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[miss_kitty]

32. No sex threads!

:D

[greendog]

34. Mount Bushmore

n/t

[BikeWriter]

35. They're going to have to move the entire thing into smaller piles...

...to cool and extinguish it.