Typically, when people talk about smoke and getting stoned it's not usually organizing a rock-throwing party aimed at drifting particles that used to be trees.
But that's just the world we live in now.
A Facebook event located in "pretty much anywhere there's smoke" has attracted more than 14, 000 people as of 3pm, Aug. 21.
The event is probably aimed at Americans, since the organizers (we're using that term loosely here) are suggesting people throw their rocks at the smoke, and toward Canada.
The hope (again, using the term loosely) is for the smoke to ... maybe be scared away from where it is? It all seems very tongue-in-cheek, but at KamloopsMatters we wanted to make sure the city is safe, so we looked how up how far people can throw things.
The longest ever throw of a thing seems to be a boomerang that went over 400 metres. Standing at the border, that still gives Kamloops about 180 kilometres of buffer.
And since it's unlikely there are many boomerang-shaped rocks in northern Washington State, we also looked up the longest baseball throw ever and, good news, the record is held by a Canadian, at 135 m. So plenty of room.
However, a group in Spokane has a craftier way of making the smoke our problem.
Their plan (yet again, using a term loosely) is to get all 550,000 residents of the city to turn on five fans each and blow the smoke back over here on Friday, Aug. 24. Their specific target is northeastern Canada, so watch out, Baffin Island!
Before Canadians get all annoyed at our southern, blowhard neighbours, it should be noted they've included a link to donate cash to Canadian shelter animals.
