Posted on 07/02/2012 11:24:05 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
JULY 2---The largest wildfire burning in Arizona was started during a bachelor party when one shotgun-toting celebrant fired a shell that promises to shoot “100 feet of fire, setting everything in its path ablaze,” The Smoking Gun has learned.
The Sunflower Fire--which has burned nearly 18,000 acres of the Tonto National Forest and is not fully contained--began in mid-May after five Arizona men gathered to celebrate the upcoming May 19 nuptials of Bryan Reeder. The group--all in their mid-20s--traveled from Mesa to the Sycamore Creek area for a weekend “campout and bachelor party,” according to court records.
On Saturday, May 12, the quintet awoke and “began to target shoot in an area close to their camp,” a United States Forest Service agent reported in a sworn affidavit. About two hours into the target shooting, Craig Shiflet (pictured at right) loaded an “incendiary shotgun shell” into his Remington 12 gauge and fired the round.
Tyler Pace, another bachelor party attendee, told investigators that after Shiflet fired the round, he “noticed smoke in the brush just behind” where the round landed in vegetation. Pace said the entire group “ran over to where the smoke was and noticed fire, which they unsuccessfully attempted to stomp out.”
As the fire rapidly grew, Shiflet called 911 and reported the blaze (and was instructed to leave the area by a police dispatcher).
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It figures, it is always the Shiflet in the bunch.
I couldn’t find it but I did find the Kemosabe Cabin Rentals in the Hiawatha National Forest in Michigan!
http://www.rentalstays.com/USA/Michigan/Munising/KEMOSABE+CABIN+RENTALS/100126.html
It worked. The shell maker has some great new marketing material for it's product.
“I don’t want relationship, I just want BANG BANG BANG!”
They should have stuck to Nintendo. Dumber than dirt and probably never took a gun safety course.
You don’t strike a match in a tinder box.
Booze and shooting a firearm of any kind or caliber NEVER go together on the beach, in the forest, or any other place. But you know that already, right?
That guy in the video is about as Russian as Obama is black!
Right you are! Shoot first, drink later.
What gives him away?
Yes, I know that.
Forgot the /sarc tag, again. (Thought it was obvious.)
JULY 2---The largest wildfire burning in Arizona was started during a bachelor party when one shotgun-toting celebrant fired a shell that promises to shoot “100 feet of fire, setting everything in its path ablaze,” The Smoking Gun has learned.
On Saturday, May 12, the quintet awoke and “began to target shoot in an area close to their camp,” a United States Forest Service agent reported in a sworn affidavit. About two hours into the target shooting, Craig Shiflet (pictured at right) loaded an “incendiary shotgun shell” into his Remington 12 gauge and fired the round.
I’d like to see all of them legally bound to pay for the damages and pay and pay for the rest of their stupid lives.
JULY 2---The largest wildfire burning in Arizona was started during a bachelor party when one shotgun-toting celebrant fired a shell that promises to shoot “100 feet of fire, setting everything in its path ablaze,” The Smoking Gun has learned.
On Saturday, May 12, the quintet awoke and “began to target shoot in an area close to their camp,” a United States Forest Service agent reported in a sworn affidavit. About two hours into the target shooting, Craig Shiflet (pictured at right) loaded an “incendiary shotgun shell” into his Remington 12 gauge and fired the round.
Last heard saying, “Hold mah beer.”
Don’t tell the Islamists where one can obtain or load “incendiary shotgun shells”.
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