[pct-l] OLD SWEA & the foolish things hikers do

[Reinhold Metzger]

Yes Jim,...good point.
This is a common dilemma in today's society.
Unfortunately this is a problem that is not going to go away any time soon.
Simple things can be extremely dangerous if mishandled  or not used as 
intended.
A simple thing like a can opener, deemed to be safe for children use, 
can be very
dangerous if misused or in the hands of a fool.

For instance,....take the fool who got burned severely trying to 
expedite a camp fire
by pouring white gas onto smoldering wood.

What about the fool who caused a burning inferno, trying to light his 
stove, by starting
to bleed his stove before he had his matches ready, fails to shut off 
the valve while he
is fumbling for his matches, and then calls the stove unsafe when it 
blows up after he
finally lights the stove after he found his matches?

How about that fool who almost got killed sleeping under the bear branch 
upon which
he counter balanced his food when the food bag and the bear came 
crashing down
after the bear broke the bear branch?

What about  "Switchback"  when he comes strutting down the trail, in 
bear territory, all
perfumed up and smelling like a rose?

Or what about the hiker who foolishly ventured into the wilderness, 
without a map or
compass, got lost and started a forest fire so fire fighters would find 
and rescue him?

Unfortunately there is "NO SHORTAGE OF FOOLS"  in today's society.

I rest my case.

JMT Reinhold
Your trail companion who gets nervous in the presence of fools.

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On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Jim Marco <jdm27 at cornell.edu 
<http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>> wrote: /
Ya' know, these are mostly false rumors.
I refuse to enter these discussions because they always fall back on 
someone
doing something really stupid with a stove then exclaiming they should 
be banned
and outlawed because they are so dangerous.//
Overfilling a stove?
ALL stoves can be dangerous or not work if they are overfilled.
Canisters, WG or alcohol.
Somehow I do not think of this a stoves failure, rather the user has 
failed to read
the f*ckin' directions.
Canisters can blow up if you use a wind screen with them improperly...a 
LOT more
spectacularly than a SVEA's emergency valve venting.
They do not allow you to refill canisters, BECAUSE THEY GET OVERFILLED.
Or, filled with Propane.
And, I guess it would be a bit senseless to talk about spraying alcohol 
out of jets as
an overfilled alcohol stove fires up..............
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////gary_schenk at verizon.net 
<http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l> wrote://They 
don't call them Swedish hand grenades for nothing!
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Brick wrote:
And list members rant and rave against alcohol stoves..... /