Compost ignites

[Oren]

"TUPPER LAKE - A fire destroyed a home at 15 East Rounds Ave. Saturday morning after a compost pile spontaneously combusted."

House photo:

[Frank]

Compost fires around here all the time with mushroom houses and compost operations that feed them.

[Tony Hwang]

Hi, Few years ago, condo block burned down in the spring. Empty flower pot containing peatmoss on the balcony was the cause.

[micky]

Wow. How big was that pot?

[Oren]

How much peat was in the pot?

[DerbyDad03]

Peat didn't have a pot to pee in. Otherwise he could have put the fire out.

[Danny D.]

Funny you mention peeing into the compost pile.

With all this talk about dripping hose nozzles, I decided to test my theory of the four reasons women *think* miss the toilet ... so ... I peed on the relocated compost pile for the past couple of days ...

(The wife, for some strange reason, is using my "old" compost pile to grow stuff - so I have been relegated to the barren wastelands.)

Lo and behold, everywhere I peed on the new (much more barren) compost pile, bees flocked.

It's strange, as there isn't a flower petal within 100 feet!

Yet - strangely - the bees are rooting about as if there is sweet nectar hidden in them thar hills:

I wonder what bees like about wet organic compost?

[Kurt Ullman]

My first question would be could you be diabetic and spilling a lot of sugar into your urine?

[Danny D.]

Interesting. Very interesting. I hadn't thought of that. Certainly, I provided supporting evidence for the garden-hose nozzle theory (aka "why women errantly think men can't aim"), but I hadn't thought about the sugars.

My original hypothesis was that they're attracted to the smell of urea, which, I had blindly assumed, was similar to some flowers they must really like as the one spot in a barren plot that has urine attracts bees by the beehive!

[Stormin Mormon]

My first question would be could you be diabetic and spilling a lot of sugar into your urine?