Compost ignites

Jun 25, 2013 9 Replies

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



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

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

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

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.)

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

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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:

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I wonder what bees like about wet organic compost?

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

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!

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

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