must be a CA thing.
the NY version
here you just throw the tree out the 5th floor window, someone comes along
in the night and burns it for you. the fire trucks show up and hose the
thing down, the police come by and write up a silly report, the landlord
sends his guys over the next day to scrub the soot and ashes off of his
building. big production every year. keeps lots of people employeed.

gf.

"JG" wrote in message
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This is just too funny (or maybe you had to be there)....

It's just about time to put the dead tree on the curb for pick up. A
friend was over and she volunteered to remove the ornaments. While she was
doing that, I mentioned that it would probably dump 10 zillion pine
needles on the floor, but that's what happens. I didn't give it another
thought and went out to do some errands, while she stayed around.

When I got back, I saw she had discovered the shop vac in the garage.
Amazingly, she shop vac'd the tree! It was just about totally denuded. She
was sort of embarrassed by the whole thing, but between fits of laughter,
I told her it was fine by me.

At least it wasn't as dangerous as my ex-roomate in college who stuff the
entire 7-foot dead tree into the fireplace and then lit the tree...

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