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Flaming Hawk With Snake in Its Talons Sparks Fire Near La Jolla
NBC Bay Area ^ | Tuesday, Jun 9, 2015 | R. Stickney

Posted on 06/09/2015 5:58:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The cause of an early morning fire north of San Diego was an electrocuted bird falling from an active power line

A bird carrying a snake in its talons struck power lines north of San Diego, sparking a hillside fire just west of The Merge.

San Diego Police arrived to the location on Dunhill Street near the intersection of Interstates 5 and 805 just before 6 a.m.

Flames were burning very close to businesses including the General Atomics building, officials said.

Officers called in San Diego Fire-Rescue crews who contained the fire within an hour.

Fire officials initially told NBC 7 a bird with a snake in its mouth was electrocuted on a power line and fell to the ground, sparking the fire. A photo released by officials later shows the snake in the hawk's grasp.

"A hawk that hit the high voltage power line, caught fire, and fell to the ground," SD Fire-Rescue spokesperson Lee Swanson said in a written release.

There were no structures damaged and no evacuations ordered.

This area of San Diego is home to many companies in the region's biochemical industry.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crispycritters; electricity; fire; hawk; koalaoil; lajolla; molassesmiasma; monkeyfacerules; napl; penguinhumor; powerlines; thefirebird; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere
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To: GeronL

It probably just means you’re congested, since most of your sense of “taste” is actually smell. Or it could mean your food is going wonky.


1,361 posted on 07/01/2015 3:18:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Tax-chick; GeronL
"Apropos of nothing, today is Thomas Sowell’s 85th birthday."

While you do that voodoo that you do, Sowell ...

1,362 posted on 07/01/2015 3:34:07 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mainstream Media reaction to "a Duggar admits he is not perfect" .. Why that's, that's .. Perfect!)
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To: NicknamedBob

Hopefully for another 20 years.


1,363 posted on 07/01/2015 3:35:15 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Tax-chick

<3 I would hope you live long enough to sing at my funeral, and with that in mind, I plan to live another 30...Just because I can... :o])


1,364 posted on 07/01/2015 4:41:07 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Stating your opinion is free speech, but stating mine is hate and intolerance? Got it.)
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To: Monkey Face

That would make me almost 80. I can’t guarantee my voice will hold up, but I’m sure I could get Sally to do it, with the application of Much Guilt.

She wasn’t in the piece the Charlotte Observer ran about the Renaissance Festival auditions. They featured a 10-year-old girl and her mother who were both already costumed. There’s a good chance she’ll get a part, though.


1,365 posted on 07/01/2015 4:45:57 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Tax-chick

I believe that if you are required to sing, the Lord will give you voice!

Sally should not give up if she wasn’t featured, as I know she will give a good performance. She IS her mother’s child!


1,366 posted on 07/01/2015 4:57:32 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Stating your opinion is free speech, but stating mine is hate and intolerance? Got it.)
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To: Monkey Face

She was just hoping to be in the paper so she could show all her friends, but it was just one column with only the two people featured. Getting a role at the festival is the big thing, and she’ll hear about that in two or three weeks.


1,367 posted on 07/01/2015 5:01:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Tax-chick

I know what that’s like! I wrote a letter to the local paper when I was 16, about some of the music that was being played by the local DJs. It made the printed issue under the headline of, “Teen Takes Crack At Type Of Music Disk Jockeys Vend.” That was SO embarrassing! Hoof and mouth disease, for sure! LOL!

And I was teased. But I stood by it, and the teasing died. I don’t think anyone recalls it, but I would like a copy of it, since mine was lost so many years ago...

My mother was proud... :o|


1,368 posted on 07/01/2015 5:28:55 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Stating your opinion is free speech, but stating mine is hate and intolerance? Got it.)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face
"That would make me almost 80. I can’t guarantee my voice will hold up"

The trick about getting as old as you want to get is to start getting younger as you approach your goal. After all, if jellyfish can figure it out, why shouldn't we?

1,369 posted on 07/01/2015 5:39:03 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mainstream Media reaction to "a Duggar admits he is not perfect" .. Why that's, that's .. Perfect!)
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To: Monkey Face

LOL! It’s hard to go against the crowd when you’re a teenager. Ours occasionally show flashes of appreciation for being allowed to be original. Tom knows he has it easy, during his rare bursts of honesty ...

I just don’t have it in me to be standoffish. You’re supposed to protect your children ... but I think they learn more from seeing the results of bad decisions (Jamie, for example) than from being isolated from people who are different from us.


1,370 posted on 07/01/2015 5:41:39 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: NicknamedBob

Jellyfish have no brains.


1,371 posted on 07/01/2015 5:42:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Tax-chick

My friend worries and ponders about the concept of reincarnation. That jellyfish have no brains would explain why being reincarnated or growing younger wouldn’t bother them.

Our task, before we begin doing these wondrous things, is to learn how to keep our bodies functioning and feeling good, so that a longer life will be a joy and not a punishment.

Then, after a long life, a bit of reincarnation should not be troublesome or unpleasant.


1,372 posted on 07/01/2015 5:57:13 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mainstream Media reaction to "a Duggar admits he is not perfect" .. Why that's, that's .. Perfect!)
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To: NicknamedBob

I don’t believe in reincarnation. I just believe that who you are is who you were/are meant to be, no matter how many lives you claim to have lived.

As far as my body is concerned, I’m not about to let it go without a fight! :o])


1,373 posted on 07/01/2015 6:05:57 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Stating your opinion is free speech, but stating mine is hate and intolerance? Got it.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face

I don’t believe in reincarnation, either, but I can understand that, if one were a jellyfish, there wouldn’t be any agonized cogitation about the past, present, or future. You just float and absorb nutrients.


1,374 posted on 07/01/2015 6:37:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Tax-chick
Jellyfish have no brains.

Which is why they vote Democrat..

1,375 posted on 07/01/2015 6:46:07 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

The Supreme Court says you can’t ask them for an ID.


1,376 posted on 07/01/2015 6:46:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Tax-chick
The Supreme Court..

..is in jellyfish emulation mode.

1,377 posted on 07/01/2015 6:50:27 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Tax-chick
Back from the dermatologist.

I misread that as "demonologist." It's late.

1,378 posted on 07/01/2015 7:51:06 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (Mind your atomic bonds.)
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1,379 posted on 07/01/2015 7:59:24 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Silentgypsy

Good to see you! But it’s late for me too.

Mischief managed.


1,380 posted on 07/01/2015 8:29:43 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mainstream Media reaction to "a Duggar admits he is not perfect" .. Why that's, that's .. Perfect!)
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