According to the article, another CA girlfriend got stuck in a chimney a couple of months ago. It must be a trend out there, like twerking or the ice bucket stupidity.
Seriously. I’m a big guy so sliding down, or up, a 12×12 flue without a couple of pounds of cordite providing the shove, is right out. ( talk about being hoist on a petard, but I digress)
But, that being said, I’m looking at my 3 y.o. and she’d have trouble sneaking through a hole that size ( i think she could, but it’d be cozy), never mind my 11 year old, and he’s a skinny little snake.
On what planet do grown women look down a narrow tube barely larger than their heads and think they can get their hips and shoulders down that, even nekkid & oiled up? I’m I know kids come out of places that would appear unlikely at first, but why would anyone with enough grasp on reality to make breakfast think that they could get down a flue?
a grasp on reality might include a little research to discover that, with most normal fireplaces, the smoke shelf and damper impose a serious impediment to easy passage:
New definition of Hot Body?
Well, it is flue season…
Bravo
probably a California phenomenon because of all the ‘spare the air’ days:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Season-s-10th-Spare-the-Air-alert-issued-5993454.php
According to the article, another CA girlfriend got stuck in a chimney a couple of months ago. It must be a trend out there, like twerking or the ice bucket stupidity.
Off-topic, but gratifying – Obamacare hits the Harvard folks who championed it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Sweet! Now they have deductibles and co-pays, just like the little people.
I thought for sure Walt would have weighed in on this one by now. Hmmm.. maybe he actually does have a life outside this blog.
Walt can’t come to the phone right now. He’s having his chimney cleaned.
Errrr…. and YOU know that HOW exactly?
I’ll take the Fifth.
Seriously. I’m a big guy so sliding down, or up, a 12×12 flue without a couple of pounds of cordite providing the shove, is right out. ( talk about being hoist on a petard, but I digress)
But, that being said, I’m looking at my 3 y.o. and she’d have trouble sneaking through a hole that size ( i think she could, but it’d be cozy), never mind my 11 year old, and he’s a skinny little snake.
On what planet do grown women look down a narrow tube barely larger than their heads and think they can get their hips and shoulders down that, even nekkid & oiled up? I’m I know kids come out of places that would appear unlikely at first, but why would anyone with enough grasp on reality to make breakfast think that they could get down a flue?
Boggles the mind.
a grasp on reality might include a little research to discover that, with most normal fireplaces, the smoke shelf and damper impose a serious impediment to easy passage: