Attack Skeeters

**SwingFromDeez** · 10-24-2010, 11:15

Originally Posted by Swingus_Maximus

I used to know some guys that would burn tires to keep the skeeters away. Tire smoke doesn't smell very good though but I guess that's why the skeeters stay away from it.

Just don't breatah it in, cuz that'd make your lungs look black!

**SwingFromDeez** · 10-24-2010, 11:16

Unless you're a smoker, then you'd probly get away witg it...

**SwingFromDeez** · 10-24-2010, 11:16

But still, that'd be pretty bad anyawyas.

**SwingFromDeez** · 10-24-2010, 11:18

Does it really keep them skeeters away, though? For real?

**Bradley** · 10-24-2010, 11:45

Originally Posted by Swingus_Maximus

I used to know some guys that would burn tires to keep the skeeters away. . .

I would say that is extreme and unacceptable anywhere in the world.

Kinda like Agent Orange . . . wouldn't you say ? ? ?

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**SwingFromDeez** · 10-24-2010, 11:50

Didn't agant Orange kill plants, not skeeters?

**MacEntyre** · 10-24-2010, 11:54

Originally Posted by Bradley

I would say that is extreme and unacceptable anywhere in the world.

Except in Mogadishu.

It is acceptable in the US and Europe when tires are burned in an industrial furnace (link to article):

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tires deliver 25 percent more energy than coal, with an emission profile of greenhouse gases and other pollutants that is about the same, making them acceptable as an industrial fuel. The RMA says that in 2005, 52 percent of all the scrap tires reclaimed in the United States were burned for fuel. In Europe the figure was 31 percent, according to the ETRMA.

Of course, that does nothing to keep down the mosquitos.