Did you know Montana has a Berkeley Pit? It does. Thousands of geese landed in it and are now dead. There are warning lights and noise machines around the Berkeley Pit to deter wildlife from entering, but it's not known if they were in operation.
Did you know Montana has a Berkeley Pit? It does. Thousands of geese landed in it and are now dead. There are warning lights and noise machines around the Berkeley Pit to deter wildlife from entering, but it's not known if they were in operation.
If you have to go, the berkeley pit is as good a way as any
700 acres 1,000 foot deep lake of toxic stew. Now filled with 10,000 large bird carcasses. Humans are such a menace to the other inhabitants of this planet.
Can someone find the asshats responsible for creating that monstrosity and have them each drink a nice glass of the water?
If my math fu is working today, 770 acres is about 1 square mile. One mile north to south, one east to west; too big to put a fence over the top?
914Driver wrote: If my math fu is working today, 770 acres is about 1 square mile. One mile north to south, one east to west; too big to put a fence over the top?
Or some type of prophylactic device...
914Driver wrote: If my math fu is working today, 770 acres is about 1 square mile. One mile north to south, one east to west; too big to put a fence over the top?
Unless you build it with skyhooks and spancrete, yes.
These are probably some of the same geese that turned my pond into a toxic pit and E36 M3 all over my yard.
What comes around, goes around skyrats. (shakes fist in air)
This isn't the first time this has happened.
KyAllroad wrote: 700 acres 1,000 foot deep lake of toxic stew. Now filled with 10,000 large bird carcasses. Humans are such a menace to the other inhabitants of this planet. Can someone find the asshats responsible for creating that monstrosity and have them each drink a nice glass of the water?
Holy cow- that thing filled up that fast? That mine used to be a tourist attraction, as it was an open pit copper mine. I went there in the early 80's to see it- and it was completely empty of water. Given that it's only fed by ground water and rain- and it's a dry place- it's shocking that the pit is that full.
BTW, the desire to have copper is the reason it's there.... Like the open pit mines for a lot of other stuff. Or the general stripping of the forests in Canada for gold (see the show Gold Rush).
Huckleberry wrote: These are probably some of the same geese that turned my pond into a toxic pit and E36 M3 all over my yard. What comes around, goes around skyrats. (shakes fist in air)
Agreed. what do you call 10.000 dead geese? A good start.
If that pit were in NJ they would fill it in and build houses on it.
Even better, the Berkeley Pit is located in Butte.
In reply to Furious_E:
I award you the internet for the day and am sad that I'm not able to +1 multiple times.
Hannah Montana?
HappyAndy wrote: If that pit were in NJ they would fill it in and build houses on it.
They did, that's why it's in Montana now. 
HappyAndy wrote: If that pit were in NJ they would fill it in and build houses on it.
Fill it?
EPA Superfund site since 1983.
to be fair to NJ. I live not too far from one of the worst Superfund sites in the US and aside from a lack of fencing, it is thankfully undeveloped. Price's Pit
Say what you want about NJ, we bury our problems. All those geese would have been fine and dead of natural causes before any of our poisons would have done them in.
Wall-e wrote: If you have to go, the berkeley pit is as good a way as any
Wasn't that the end of the episode of South Park with the "goobacks"?
Bobzilla wrote:Huckleberry wrote: These are probably some of the same geese that turned my pond into a toxic pit and E36 M3 all over my yard. What comes around, goes around skyrats. (shakes fist in air)Agreed. what do you call 10.000 dead geese? A good start.
I didn't know waterfowl could go to law school?
Wall-e wrote: If you have to go, the berkeley pit is as good a way as any
It's a Butte area Berkeley Pit, apparently. It was expanded many times by Anaconda. I don't think I can handle that. Do not want.
So does this count as death by snu-snu?
Huckleberry wrote:Wall-e wrote: If you have to go, the berkeley pit is as good a way as anyIt's a Butte area Berkeley Pit, apparently. It was expanded many times by Anaconda. I don't think I can handle that. Do not want.
and it got goosed
Butte is an odd place , there is mining everywhere and seemingly literally right in town
mad_machine wrote: and it got goosed
Goosed twice!
If we are going to keep at this... it was also penetrated, in the original Butte site, by a deep shaft. It got stretched pretty wide by Anaconda, then ultimately ended up stripping for years before the government put a stop to it.
You'll need to log in to post.
