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Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette

Posted by samzenpus on from the only-you-can-stop-internet-fires dept.

AlHunt writes "A fire started by a homeless man knocked out service between Boston and New York on the experimental Internet2 network Tuesday night. Authorities say the fire, which also disrupted service on the Red Line subway, started around 8:20 p.m. when a homeless man tossed a lit cigarette. The cigarette landed on a mattress, which ignited and led to a two-alarm fire."

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  1. Butts by magarity · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I really don't care that smokers don't care that their polluting their own lungs and homes, and if the smoke in the air bothers at a public venue me then I know to move myself somewhere else. The only reason cigarette smokers REALLY irritate me is that in general they don't care one bit where they toss the ^%$# cigarette butts. Streets, sidewalks, flowerbeds, and now even old mattresses... the country is completely littered with the nasty things. I demand that all cigarettes sold be unfiltered so the remaineder little bit dissolves and washes away easily in the next rain.