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Originally Posted by bc-chris
don't they have fines for people throwing cigarette butts out of vehicles? i know they do in bc.
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Yes. I think it's $500 for a spent butt, $1000 for a live one.
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they just did a story on it in the local news - they want people to call 911 and report the license plate of the vehicle
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Then I get the distracted driving ticket for calling it in....
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Originally Posted by troutman
Drove by the fire southbound on Sarcee around 3:00 pm.
Northbound was closed down, which seemed like a bit of an overreaction. The fire wasn't that big, there were plenty of fire trucks, and lots of room for them off the shoulder. Maybe it was worse earlier?
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Yes it was; not so much the fire itself, but the smoke interfering with traffic. I think they figured "let's just get the traffic off of there so emergency vehicles could zip up and down freely"
There is a very cool time elapsed video here:
http://globalnews.ca/news/552336/bre...hwest-calgary/
About halfway down page.