'Burn Cop' Coming to a Neighborhood Near You.

This is a call to action!  All who read this post are now deputized into the 'Report Your Local Representative' action committee.  Watch your state representative or senator like a hawk; it is likely they are ignoring the very laws and regulations they expect us to live under.  "What is so terrible?", you ask.  I'll tell you.  In an effort to save North Idaho asthmatics, our ever wise elected officials have made it virtually impossible to get a burn permit to clean up a stubble field here in Southern Idaho (motto:  smoke is a welcome change from our normal airborne aroma).

To get a burn permit now, you must take a field burning safety course, file an application at least 30 days before you want to burn, and wait for the phone call by 11 am on the day you want to burn.  What a bunch of morons!!!  Field burning works best when the weather conditions cooperate to make it safe and manageable; these favorable conditions are impossible to tell 3 days in advance let alone 30. 

The best part:  fines start at 1800 to 2400 dollars, (with no warning) 

The solution:  we must blow the whistle on any state official (elected or otherwise) or their relatives who burn without a permit.  After the first couple of these geniuses pays a fine, maybe they'll think before they take a regionally necessary regulation and apply to the state as a whole. 

I was going to try and be funny, but I am too angry.  I'm dead serious about turning these folks in.  Maybe I will get a new personalized license plate: 'burncop'.  Maybe there'll be some sort of whistleblower payoff too.  Oh, sorry, I let my imagination run wild.  Happy hunting.