Lesson of the day: When you see a fire, drive on by

So (ever notice how many of our posts start with the word so?) we were camping and Felicity wouldn’t quit screaming and after we just put up with it for over an hour Märia kicked me and Felicity out, telling me to drive her around until she went to sleep.  So I proceeded to drive Felicity around, probably around 9 at night, and we saw a dumpster on fire.  Not one of the little trash cans, but a huge dumpster.  So I called 911, explained the situation, the transferred me to the military 911, who gave me the Bellows Military Police phone number.  So I called them and explained the situation to them as well, and when they said they would come check it out, I drove off.  This probably took about 5-7 minutes phone time.  I got back to the tent and start settling in.  Maybe 20 minutes later MPs are knocking on my tent, asking if I own the red neon with the bike rack on top.  Yeah, I do, I say.  Apparently while I was parked out front of the fire, calling the MP’s, someone called saying I started the fire!  Great.  Anyway, he was respectful, but asked me all sorts of questions over and over, asking me if I was “sure” I didn’t dump my coals from my fire in the dumpster and all sorts of other junk.  Then he had to detain me until the Hawaii Police could show up, because anytime there is an “environmental incident” they have to be called in.  The HPD officer interrogated me and both of them wanted to see my cell phone verifying that I made the calls.  Craziness.  It ended up taking up like an hour just talking to the police and they took my information and my commands information.  Ugh.  Next time I am driving on by!  Well, probably not, but I would sure think about it!

BTW – word count on this post is 342 words, and it only took 5 minutes or so.  No need to give up Jason!  But get your english done first!