Thursday, 11 October 2012

Watford Auto Fire Rages into Fourth Week

A fire started by a celebratory cannon-shot is stretching into it's fourth week of existence behind the Watford Arena with the local volunteer fire brigade powerless to combat the blaze. “With all the gasoline and plastics cars just burn too hot, there's no use putting water on it.” Fire-Chief Mikey said yesterday. “And the town residents just keep crashing more cars into it. We lost count at well over one hundred. That was Monday. Last week.”

The townspeople of Watford have been spent the past month crashing cars into the fire and claiming the insurance, trading up for nicer and nicer vehicles. “I'm stopping when I get a Bentley,” One townsperson who refused to give his name said. “I'm slowly building up equity in my car. I started with an '89 Taurus, and earlier today I crashed a two year old G6, with General Motors paying an extra eight months of 'therapy' to cover the carnage!” The anonymous man then skipped away yelling, “Keep rollin' rollin' rollin'!”

Avoiding arrest for willfully plowing a car into a fire is a difficult manoeuvre for the Watfordians. They can't be seen making the car crash, so they start from over a kilometer away with the car pointed at the fire and wedge the gas pedal down with a chunk of wood. If the car hits the fire all evidence of the fraud is burned up, so there is no reasonable means for the insurance company to refuse payout and no crime that the police can accurately charge. By saying that the accelerator got stuck down and that they were lucky to bail out before they died the citizens can also milk a payment from the auto company for lingering mental duress. The auto companies can afford to settle with a few thousand for counseling because they were given tens of billions in taxpayer money not that long ago. “It's called trickle down economics, bitches get paid!” is a common phrase yelled by participants in the fraud, along with the chorus from the 2000 Limp Bizkit classic “Rollin'”. Just imagine about fifty people grabbing their crotches and pretend-steering-a-car-off-a-cliff around a pile of burned out steel shells. Jesus.

Before the citizens started getting their aim dialed in several cars missed the fire and plowed into the concrete facade of the arena. The broken concrete building, strewn auto parts, scattered glass and roaring fire has some residents hoping that a tornado hits the town. “We know tornadoes don't really 'clean' but it might spread out the debris in a helpful manner.” president of the Watford Optimist Club Dave Greene said Thursday, “Like when my eight year old doesn't want to finish his baked beans, so he spreads them around his plate so it looks like there's less. We could go for that right now, but our town is the plate and the beans are car parts and fire.”

Insurance companies are looking for any possible reason to not pay out any money, and have hired the husband of local outragee Sandra to take their case to court. The question to be resolved now is whether the Watford Parsley Festival committee, an organization who's 2011 budget was $43, could be at fault for starting the blaze by firing the cannon that blew up the car, which would mean an organization with no money in the bank could owe hundreds of thousands to the insurance companies, with the money possibly coming straight out of the homes and businesses of local citizens. A now sober Ovaltine Goose-Shredder has volunteered to argue in court on behalf of the town. “Really, anything I can do to fuck up that guys day, I will, your honour.” Goose-Shredder said of Sandra's husband at the Thursday court-date. He then argued that the start of the fire was an act of God. “According to the preacher Firestone, God is in everything, including cannonballs. The guy has been talking for six months straight and on August 21st he specifically said God is in cannonballs.” The Judge found no reason to dispute this, and qualified the ruling by saying that he didn't necessarily buy the God thing but he "really hate[s] insurance companies. Gavel. Gavel. Gavel."

This is good news for the residents of Watford, as they will get to keep all the money that has been paid out and presumably continue to take advantage of the legal loophole a trunk-full of exploding grain alcohol has opened up. Dirtbag Terry has claimed twelve cars so far. “My buddy has an auto wrecking yard, I bought six cars from him this week, but they keep getting burned up.” he said Thursday evening. “Damnedest thing.” When asked what he might do with the money. Dirtbag Terry said that he was going to invest in lottery tickets. “I could buy a lot of Mexico with that talking preacher man lotto. It's at about $8 billion right now.”

Environmental experts are hopeful that the residents of Watford will collect enough money to stop crashing cars into fire within the coming weeks and the blaze comes under control, as incidents of asthma amongst Watford children have raised 4500% since black smoke began choking the town. Any hope that some hard hitting journalism could bring an end to the fire was dashed when I showed up, since Piss-Awesome Journalism has little to do with facts and isn't taken seriously by anyone.

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