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Intelligent Life Found... er... Lost On Earth

Heating Oil Poured into Wrong House Ready... Set... Go! (Steps on to soapbox, clears throat, begins...) There are so many things I could say here, I scarcely know where to start, but you must know by now that all of us here at SYPH and GH have little trouble expressing ourselves (we live on a soapbox, remember). First that this even made the FRONT PAGE of CBC.com is astounding.  Appparently we're hard up for news this week. Moving right along... dude in a truck drives up to a house, presumably he checks to make sure he's got the right one (let's give him the benefit of the doubt, shall we?), and proceeds to pump oil into a fill pipe.  Now, I've never lived in a house that uses heating oil, so I don't know all the specifics of this, but these are supposed to be professionals delivering this stuff, are they not?  I assume that this is a potentially highly dangerous and flammable subtance that they are delivering, not to mention, expensive, especially in this...