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Here's a word to the wise: Never, and we mean NEVER, take a Longhorn to the movies ... unless you want to get hazmat involved. Why? Burnt popcorn is like kryptonite to the burnt orange. That's right ... burnt popcorn. DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!!!! An entire campus dormitory was evacuated overnight Thursday after residents reported a strong odor wafting from the fourth floor. They were unable to identify the smell, so emergency officials evacuated all 200 people inside as hazmat crews investigated, KVUE-TV reports. That's when they discovered the devious -- but delicious -- culprit. But it gets even better. About 45 people complained of respiratory problems as a result of the popcorn smell. The Austin Fire Department blamed the high number of patients on what they called a "sympathetic reaction." That's what we call "hilarious." "What we found was burnt popcorn. It was popcorn burnt on the fourth floor, and it had a pretty bad odor and it spooked a lot of folks," an AFD spokesperson told KVUE. Most of the evacuees were summer school students and high school cheerleaders attending camp. 10 CommentsLeave a comment |
longhorns...
During my freshman yr at Baylor, I was required to live in the dorm (as all freshmen at BU), and that whole first yr, this happened to us at least twice a month. It was ridiculous! I guess it's just a college thing... haha
And they make fun of us Aggies...
I lived in the dorms at the University of Louisville in Kentucky for 3 years and EVERY time i smelled popcorn burning, i knew what to get ready for. Within the hour we would all be evacuated until the fire squad had made its way to assess the 'fire'. My favorite time was in the dead of winter, snow all over, and here are 300 freshmen in college standing in the snow in pajamas and towels (for those of us who had been showering.)
corporations also go thru this when someone overcooks popcorn in the microwave....so it's not just a college thing...LOL
I set a piece of fish on fire at work, (Accidentally, of course) we evacuated nothing.
i don't cook fish no more.
They were probably covering up their weed smoke with the burnt popcorn smell. That is what we used to do.
We have a policy in our workplace that NO ONE is allowed to make microwave popcorn. Apparently a disgruntled ex-employee came in every day for a week after getting canned and purposely burnt popcorn in the microwave. There is now a note on the vending machine informing the vendor not to stock any microwave popcorn and a note on the microwave informing would be corn poppers of the implications of cooking a little bag of redenbutter's.
This is news? This happens every other week at every dorm across America.
If you bother to read the actual news story on this, you'd find that it was not college students who did this, but rather some scared high school cheerleaders in town for a competition/camp thing.
So yea, Aggies still have the worst track records when it comes to fires...