"Don't hit button unless in an emergency" means what it says....
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TMetzinger
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Oy.... from the pictures it looks like the "good" foam, though, that shouldn't wreck everything.
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KennyFlys
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It's hard not to laugh at it... unless you're charged with the expense of clean up, inspecting the equipment and recharging the suppression system. Oops!
I'd like to be a fly on the wall after that kid got home.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall after that kid got home.
Shipoke
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I'd like to be a fly on the wall after that kid got home.
I'll bet they didnt wait till they got home. And i'll bet the ride home wasn't pleasant.
Dave G.
I'll bet they didnt wait till they got home. And i'll bet the ride home wasn't pleasant.
Dave G.
kevin47881
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Doh!
Lawreston
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. . . . and did y'all notice that the "professional" writer incorrectly spelled -- three times -- the location in which a helicopter is housed?
) HR
Speaking of foam:
Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney was transformed into the Cappuccino Coast. Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards' center, in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales. One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away. (Photo #1)
The boy in the bubble bath: Tom Woods, 12, emerges from the clouds of foam after deciding that surfing was not an option. It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades. Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. All are churned up together by powerful currents which cause the water to form bubbles. These bubbles stick to each other as they are carried below the surface by the current
towards the shore. As a wave starts to form on the surface, the motion of the water causes the bubbles to swirl upwards and, massed together, they become foam. The foam 'surfs' towards shore until the wave 'crashes', tossing the foam into the air.
Whitewash: The foam was so thick it came all the way up to the surf club. 'It's the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a blender,' explains a marine expert. 'The more powerful the swirl, the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes.' In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the substances which form into bubbles. As for 12-year-old beachgoer, Tom Woods, who has been surfing since he was two, riding a wave was out of the question. 'Me and my mates just spent the afternoon leaping about in that stuff,' he said. 'It was quite cool to touch and it was really weird. It was like clouds of air - you could hardly feel it.'
(Photo #2)
Children play among all the foam which was been whipped up by cyclonic conditions. (Photo #3)
) HRSpeaking of foam:
Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney was transformed into the Cappuccino Coast. Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards' center, in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales. One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away. (Photo #1)
The boy in the bubble bath: Tom Woods, 12, emerges from the clouds of foam after deciding that surfing was not an option. It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades. Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. All are churned up together by powerful currents which cause the water to form bubbles. These bubbles stick to each other as they are carried below the surface by the current
towards the shore. As a wave starts to form on the surface, the motion of the water causes the bubbles to swirl upwards and, massed together, they become foam. The foam 'surfs' towards shore until the wave 'crashes', tossing the foam into the air.
Whitewash: The foam was so thick it came all the way up to the surf club. 'It's the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a blender,' explains a marine expert. 'The more powerful the swirl, the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes.' In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the substances which form into bubbles. As for 12-year-old beachgoer, Tom Woods, who has been surfing since he was two, riding a wave was out of the question. 'Me and my mates just spent the afternoon leaping about in that stuff,' he said. 'It was quite cool to touch and it was really weird. It was like clouds of air - you could hardly feel it.'
(Photo #2)
Children play among all the foam which was been whipped up by cyclonic conditions. (Photo #3)
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Lawreston
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JohnR
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When my brother and I were kids, mom would take us to the grocery store and, while she was in line to pay, we'd wait over to the side. There was one of those round rubber door bumpers on the wall where the manager's office was. He (older brother) told me if I pushed the button, alarms would go off. For several trips to the store, I believed him. Mostly. Something in me thought he was pulling my leg. Then I got up the nerve to push it.
Sometimes you just gotta push the button.
Sometimes you just gotta push the button.
Let'sgoflying!
Touchdown! Greaser!
that kind of button should have a sign stating the expense incurred to the push-ee: Such as This is a $100,000.00 button. Have credit card (and home mortgage papers) ready" Then maybe parents would keep their kids under closer wraps!
Keith Lane
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The news link didn't work for me.
But here's a Youtube video of the scene..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vPpIvga7CU
But here's a Youtube video of the scene..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vPpIvga7CU
etsisk
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hell, they're probably still LOOKING for the kid under all that foam! Sheesh...
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Wonder if the parent is going to have to pay for the cleanup??
"sorry billy no Christmas presents for you for the next 25 years"
"sorry billy no Christmas presents for you for the next 25 years"
Teller1900
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That is a rediculous amount of foam!!! Couldn't they just have one of the helicopters fire up and blow it all out of the hanger??
jwriteclub
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Probably an EPA felony to do that.
~ Christopher
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infotango
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That kid is being put on the "naughty" list.
jwriteclub
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Permanantly
flyersfan31
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The parenting should have started BEFORE he hit the button. Yup, I have no proof, but I blame the parents. Comes from experience.
jwriteclub
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Possibly,
On the other hand, even relatively level headed young men can be remarkably stupid from time to time.
~ Christopher
On the other hand, even relatively level headed young men can be remarkably stupid from time to time.
~ Christopher