Burning a volcano... seems redundant somehow...

I descended from my small, teeny, tiny, minuscule, microscopic dot of a village today and found the volcano (Mt. Aso) ablaze. That's right... they burn their volcano... BURN a frickin' VOLCANO!!!

wow....

WOW....

that seems really awesome.... and it WAS really awesome!
the best part were the throngs of hobbiest photographers with thousands of dollars of camera equipment around their necks walking in the middle of the roads.

and what do they use to protect the public in case the fire were to get out of control???

a frickin' hand-me-down K-car (white plate vehicles that are powered by lawnmower engines) spray-painted red and outfitted with a siren.

Seriously, that thing couldn't be holding enough water to extinguish a campfire!!

oh, Japan...