Clemenza, I bet you have a few good Bayonne stories.
Posted on 10/19/2007 1:50:44 PM PDT by Red Badger
It's Rocky the Frying Squirrel!
A kamikaze squirrel fell from the sky and detonated a Bayonne woman's car yesterday, police said today.
Lindsey Millar, 23, and her brother, Tony, 22, were both home Wednesday at about 12:45 p.m. when Lindsey's car suddenly started burning outside their 42nd Street home.
Tony Millar said firefighters told them it was the work of a buck-toothed saboteur that had been gnawing on overhead power lines connected to a transformer directly above the 2006 Toyota Camry.
"The squirrel chewed through the wire, was set on fire, fell down directly to where the car was," Tony Millar said. "The squirrel, on fire, slid into the engine compartment and blew up the car. "They're always coming around here, chewing through the garbage," he added.
Tony Millar says his sister was fully insured.
"It's something to laugh about once she has a new car," he said. "It's not funny yet." Police said there were no injuries -- except for the squirrel, that is, which is dead.
The Millars' home is decorated for Halloween, complete with a tiny plastic tombstone on their front lawn. Tony Millar said the family will consider dedicating the tombstone to the squirrel, who was not named.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
I used to live on Kennedy and 33rd in that town - lots of trees, but the lawns were uniformly small ...
Jihad Squirrel???
I’m sure the squirrels name was “Achmed”
PING!!!
In Manhattan it would’ve been a flaming gerbil.
I hate it when that happens!
UNNNGH!
Clemenza, I bet you have a few good Bayonne stories.
Bayonne ping!
Small world. I used to live on 34th between Avenue C and Kennedy.
There is a very nice, relatively large park a block from here with plenty of squirrels (and skunks and foxes). Nice view of Port Newark and even an unofficial "beach" if you want to tan among the refuse from the Bay.
Maybe this squirrel is a recent convert to Islam. There is a rapidly growing Muslim population in Bayonne.
Beat me to it.
Now I’m stuck with coming up with some humorous comment about flaming squirrels in order to bump this thread.
I sure wish I could set the squirrels in my back yard on fire. Fire + Squirrels = “Match” Made in Heaven.
Are they sure it wasn't "Rocky the Flaming Squirrel"?
His voice was sort of high ...
Not that many years ago I had to visit SeaLand in Port Newark and while waiting at the guard shack the guard told me that in a few minutes I'd be seeing something I'd fine very hard to believe. He had a bag of corn and was throwing the kernels out into an area in front of those reeds that grow everywhere around there. In another few minutes pheasants began to appear and ate up all the corn he had thrown. Pheasants, right in the middle of the Meadowlands!
Can I borrow these two? Squirells are digging up my planters and making of mess of them.
“Squirrel fires regular occurrence in Canadian border town”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002390256_webpyrosquirrels19.html
Deer and the occasional bear can be found in the Meadowlands as well, especially near Secaucus and Kearny.
Of course here in Central Jersey (Lawrenceville) we have deer, foxes, coyotes, pheasants, wild turkey, muskrats, beaver, and vultures.
I nominate the Turkey Vulture to be our State Bird.
Squirrels in Bayonne have no fear!
What’s more shocking is that someone on 42nd street found a parking spot in front of their own house!
I grew up on 34th street across from the firehouse.
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