An unlucky squirrel shorted out a high-voltage power line Monday morning in Redding, California and sparked a small brush fire after it fell into dry vegetation.
http://www.redding.com/news/2008/oct/14 ... artner=RSS
Fire investigaters finger arsonist: a flaming squirrel
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Bob Juch
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Fire investigaters finger arsonist: a flaming squirrel
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- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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silvercamaro
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Re: Fire investigaters finger arsonist: a flaming squirrel
My city once saw a surreptitious squirrel who short-circuited a substation soon after six.
That sucked.
That sucked.
Now generating the White Hot Glare of Righteousness on behalf of BBs everywhere.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: Fire investigaters finger arsonist: a flaming squirrel
In a Man Bites Dog Story
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Horry County firefighters have put out a blaze at a familiar address - 1 of their own fire stations.
Authorities say someone walking by the station on state Highway 905 reported the fire around 4:45 a.m. Wednesday.
Horry County Fire Rescue spokesman Todd Cartner says the station's firefighters are volunteers, and no one was inside at the time.
The building was damaged by the blaze, but firefighters were able to get a fire engine out before it burned.
Investigators are trying to determine what started the fire.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Evel Squirrel
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Re: Fire investigaters finger arsonist: a flaming squirrel
Too bad you didn't live in Sand Springs.silvercamaro wrote:My city once saw a surreptitious squirrel who short-circuited a substation soon after six.
That sucked.
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silvercamaro
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Re: Fire investigaters finger arsonist: a flaming squirrel
No, thank you. Sand Springs is singularly supplied with snakes.Evel Squirrel wrote:Too bad you didn't live in Sand Springs.silvercamaro wrote:My city once saw a surreptitious squirrel who short-circuited a substation soon after six.
That sucked.
Now generating the White Hot Glare of Righteousness on behalf of BBs everywhere.
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Don't tell me. Claude Cooper, the criminal from Cleveland, moved there, had a sex change, and renamed herself Cicely Simpson.silvercamaro wrote:No, thank you. Sand Springs is singularly supplied with snakes.Evel Squirrel wrote:Too bad you didn't live in Sand Springs.silvercamaro wrote:My city once saw a surreptitious squirrel who short-circuited a substation soon after six.
That sucked.
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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Ritterskoop
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Re: Fire investigaters finger arsonist: a flaming squirrel
I am hearing Mel Blanc do that thing where his sister's name is Sue, his name is Cy, and he answers everything with "Si."
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