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Pig farts spark Australia gas scare

SYDNEY: A flatulent pig sparked a gas emergency in southern Australia Thursday when a farmer mistook its odours for a leaking pipe, officials said.

Fifteen firefighters and two trucks were called to a property at Axedale in central Victoria state after reports of a gas leak, the Country Fire Service said.

"When we got there, as we drove up the driveway, there was this huge sow, about a 120-odd kilo (265-pound) sow, and it was very obvious where the gas was coming from," said fire captain Peter Harkins.

"We could not only smell it, but we heard it and it was quite funny.":D

Harkins said the pig's owner was "a little bit embarrassed to say the least," and it took fire crews a little while to compose themselves.

"It was fairly obvious what it was. I think we dealt with it fairly professionally and had a bit of a giggle when we got back to the station," he told public broadcaster ABC. :lol::lol::lol:
 
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I like this story also (for discerning ecologists):

MARS FARTS!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, NASA scientists believe.

The gas, belched in vast quantities in our world by cows, was detected by orbiting spacecraft and from Earth using giant telescopes.

thenewswalk.com: MARS FARTS!
 
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"It was fairly obvious what it was. I think we dealt with it fairly professionally and had a bit of a giggle when we got back to the station," he told public broadcaster ABC. :lol::lol::lol:

What does that mean? :lol::lol:
 
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"I think we dealt with it fairly professionally".

Not sure what it means. Perhaps the fireman is just saying that they only chuckled and giggled and didn't ROFL! Or maybe it means they hosed down the cows with water and not the farmer ......
 
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