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Crankshaft: Getting rid of the Christmas Tree
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/12/28

ROTFLMAO. Ok, I have never seen anyone doing that.

Lynn

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On 2025-12-29 21:21:11 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

Crankshaft: Getting rid of the Christmas Tree
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/12/28

ROTFLMAO. Ok, I have never seen anyone doing that.

Lynn

I know of someone who went around offering to get rid of Christmas
trees for a small fee. He loaded up a trailer with the trees and then
went around dumping them in various construction site big bins (which
isn't legal). They made a pile of money with only the outlay of the
petrol and their time, and didn't pay any income tax on it (also not
legal). :-(

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On 12/29/2025 4:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crankshaft: Getting rid of the Christmas Tree
-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/12/28

ROTFLMAO.-a Ok, I have never seen anyone doing that.

Lynn

Back when I was still doing natural trees, I did exactly
this. However, I'd toss the tree in my (large) back yard
until the snow melted and it was time for spring cleanup.

It would act as kindling for the fire I dumped fallen
limbs, etc on.

pt
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 13:58:54 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/29/2025 4:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crankshaft: Getting rid of the Christmas Tree
aa https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/12/28

ROTFLMAO.a Ok, I have never seen anyone doing that.

Back when I was still doing natural trees, I did exactly
this. However, I'd toss the tree in my (large) back yard
until the snow melted and it was time for spring cleanup.

It would act as kindling for the fire I dumped fallen
limbs, etc on.

That wouldn't be legal any more in Seattle.
Of course, 50 years ago might have been a different story.
My back yard was once invaded by a squad of firefighters because the
Northern neighbors had reported smelling smoke. I didn't smell any on
the main floor or the front porch, but when I took the recycling down
I smelt it on the patio. Which is adjacent to the back yard.
And they found the fire! They lifted themselves up on the Western
neighbors fence, and there it was! They then went around the block to
/that/ house and, I suspect, gave a lecture and maybe even levied a
fine.
They had been burning leaves.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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On 1/4/2026 11:43 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 13:58:54 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/29/2025 4:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crankshaft: Getting rid of the Christmas Tree
-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/12/28

ROTFLMAO.-a Ok, I have never seen anyone doing that.

Back when I was still doing natural trees, I did exactly
this. However, I'd toss the tree in my (large) back yard
until the snow melted and it was time for spring cleanup.

It would act as kindling for the fire I dumped fallen
limbs, etc on.

That wouldn't be legal any more in Seattle.

Of course, 50 years ago might have been a different story.

My back yard was once invaded by a squad of firefighters because the
Northern neighbors had reported smelling smoke. I didn't smell any on
the main floor or the front porch, but when I took the recycling down
I smelt it on the patio. Which is adjacent to the back yard.

And they found the fire! They lifted themselves up on the Western
neighbors fence, and there it was! They then went around the block to
/that/ house and, I suspect, gave a lecture and maybe even levied a
fine.

They had been burning leaves.

I'm in a pretty rural setting, with forest on two sides of my house.

The town does have restrictions - You can get burn permits only
Jan-May, and each day you want to use them, you have to call it
into the FD. If its windy, they won't give permission.

pt
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On 1/4/2026 11:43 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 13:58:54 -0500, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/29/2025 4:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Crankshaft: Getting rid of the Christmas Tree
-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/12/28

ROTFLMAO.-a Ok, I have never seen anyone doing that.

Back when I was still doing natural trees, I did exactly
this. However, I'd toss the tree in my (large) back yard
until the snow melted and it was time for spring cleanup.

It would act as kindling for the fire I dumped fallen
limbs, etc on.

That wouldn't be legal any more in Seattle.

I was born in 1948 and grew up four blocks east of the Los Angeles line.
There was a concrete incinerator behind the garage; when I was quite
young it was used to burn garbage and yard waste. That must have
stopped in the early 1950s; the county Air Pollution Control District
was established in 1947.
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I'd rather find boring things interesting
than find interesting things boring. - Frazz (Jef Mallett)
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In rec.arts.sf.written Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Crankshaft: Getting rid of the Christmas Tree
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/12/28

ROTFLMAO. Ok, I have never seen anyone doing that.

We used to do that in the Panama Canal Zone. Sometime shortly after
New Years, a neighborhood would gather in a parking lot or the
like, and we'd all bring our trees to make a bonfire. At least a
couple of non-drunk adults would be supervising, and the kids would
drag their trees close enough for the heat to be uncomfortable,
and we'd toss them on the bier. It was kind of like a Viking funeral
for our trees.

We had to keep our trees hidden after taking them down, though, to
prevent the more juveniledelinquentish of the older kids from
stealing them.

Anyway, it was great fun, and pretty much the only time Zone kids
would eat marshmallows (except at Boy Scout [and, I presume, Girl
Scout] camp).

We didn't burn artificial trees, though, of course. That would have
been stupid.
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