Man delivering newspapers notices a restaurant on fire and puts it out himself

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/29/man-delivering-newspapers-noti.html

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Meanwhile the restaurant owner is across the street in the bushes going “Oh no! Stop! My insurance fraud! I’m ruined!”

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Nit-picky correction:

The restaurant is actually in Duncan, BC.
The newspaper who wrote about it and was being delivered is from Victoria, BC.

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2 old men are sitting on a tropical beach
The first man says, “I used to run a factory, but there was a fire which wiped my business out. So I took the insurance money and retired”

The second man says, “I had a huge warehouse, but there was but there was a massive flood which wiped my business out. So I took the insurance money and retired”

First man asks, “How do you start a flood?”

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Or it was their new marketing campaign he singlehandedly ruined.

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Not to take away from this guy’s well deserved praise, but that was some half-assed arson. Burning signs on the side of a corrugated metal wall? I wouldn’t be surprised if they burned themselves out.

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He didn’t just save the restaurant, he saved everyone’s livelihood working there. Good job!

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That’s a log building, and he says in the report that the fire was starting to catch on the wood.

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If it got up to the top of the sign it could have ignited the roof.

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Ahh, Groucho’s back :grin:

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I’m more impressed that he waited for the green light at 2.00am

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Canadian, eh?

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With hatefulness and patience.

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Dear lord =x …

Behold the roar of the dinosaur!

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