What a cheerful story for a Monday morning. A weekend warrior went cycling in Iceland, stopped to relieve himself, and promptly caused a wildfire. One thing led to another. This poor guy did his business, cleaned himself up with toilet paper, and chose the wrong method of erasing the evidence. He set the paper on fire, which caused an inferno on top of dry moss and lava. The man, who was not a local, tried in vain to extinguish the flames with his puny water bottle. Fortunately, the fire department soon arrived and defeated the fire before it spread too far.
The Facebook report from the Icelandic police translates roughly (via Google Translate):
“Foreign cyclists turned into toilet paper after having gone out of their Ornaments in the lava below the Bifrost the north in the morning, with the result that it caught fire in the dry moss into the lava . He emptied the bottle he was using but it was insufficient and called the fire department turned off the power and coals in moss. Police in the West wants to direct tourists to be careful with fire all the vegetation is particularly dry Borgarfirdi these days.”
This cyclist was a tourist, but he should have known better. The dude didn’t want to leave a mess behind him, and he left a fire instead. This is why mortals invented Ziploc baggies.
(Via Death and Taxes, Grapevine.is, and Icelandic Police on Facebook)