THOSE TERRORIST BASTARDS

Now they're using houseplants.

(Thanks to Bill Hudgins)

Update: Also Civil War relics.

(Thanks to Otis)

Comments

[padraig]

Civil war relics? How'd they get my mother-in-law to sign up?

(buh dum CHING!)

[bonmot]

Last Sunday, my son and I were driving on FM 1960 east of I-45 when we noticed that someone had installed miles of new mulch in the concrete planters dividing the road. Nearly all of it was smoldering, having spontaneously combusted. Discarded cigarettes could not have caught that many planters on fire.

We giggled with schadenfreude at the thought of the guy who had to tell his boss -- "Um, yeah. About those five miles of mulch we spent $50,000.00 to install, um, well, it's gone."

"Whaddaya mean, 'gone'?! How do you steal mulch?!"

"Well, it wasn't stolen. It spontaneously combusted."

"Yeah, right. And Paris Hilton keeps gum in a baggie."

[Jeff Meyerson]

How can a Civil War-era cannonball suddenly become dangerous, unless college students get in the room and drop it out of a window?

[Wes S.]

I'm guessing that the "cannonballs" must actually have been some sort of primitive fused shell. IIRC, somebody accidentally blew himself up a few years ago with one of those; the fuse was faulty but the 140-year-old gunpowder inside was still dry...

[Moses]

I told 'em not to plant those burning bushes.

[Schadeboy]

Dave, this reminds me of the article you wrote about a prom date you had with a girl whom ended up holding hands with another, more attractive guy. You said that the best thing that could have happened to you at that time was to "spontaneously combust". I think maybe these plants might have a word or two for you on how to do that the next time you find yourself in that situation.

[DavCat]

Perhaps this plant was getting even for all his 'relatives' killed by human with 'black thumb'.

I'm sure that I probably have a long list of plants that I've accidentally offed. Maybe I should put a fire extinguisher by my garden, just in case. The little buggers just my try to get even with me, too!

[nursecindy]

Good one 'Moses'. Civil War cannonballs did have explosives inside of them. Prior to that, during the Revolutionary War, they were just hunks of metal that would hurt if dropped on your head. I'm not that smart it's just that my family hails from Georgia and collects these things. When I was a kid I used to walk around the house with my arms folded because there were so many 'don't touch that' relics laying around.

[ScottMGS]

So what you're saying, nc, is that you grew up in a minefield?!?