Lucky - this time

goodday gramps
theres one born everyday isnt there
must have been behind the kitchen door when the brains were being handed around

steve

ps wouldnt be game to say anything about croweaters !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gramps,
Must be a Mexican thing.
Cheers,
Bros.

So who got charged for burning down Wilson's Promentary??

From the link:
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The department's north-west region fire and emergency management acting manager Rob Price says campfires should not be lit on total fire ban days.

"Campers need to ensure that they are listening to the radio, listening to the ABC whether a TFB [total fire ban] is in their area that they are camping
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Oh should they?

I'll e-mail Mr Price and ask him at exactly what time I should be listening to the radio.

About 4 years ago I had one hell of a game (over one week) trying to establish if there was a TFB in force or not from listening to the radio in Victoria. There is (was) no standard time that the ABC announce this. It _may_ be at the start of the 6pm news, it _may_ be at the end of the 6pm news or it may not be on the 6pm news at all. Likewise for all other news broadcasts both that evening and the next morning. In other words you have to try and remember to catch all of every news broadcast from 6pm until about 10am the following morning until you find out.
Which is just bloody silly.

I have contacted both the ABC and CFA in regard to this and they both said "It is broadcast at some point - we'll look into it".

This is not rocket science - but a TFB is such an important thing that there should be a standard time for it's broadcast - perhaps just before the weather forecast at the end of every news bulletin from 6pm the day before through to 11pm on the day of TFB. It would also be helpful if at a standard time they gave a rundown on the area covered by particular "fire districts".

Why is it so hard to make small, simple, obvious things happen?

Mike Harding