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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: Monkey Face

Rrrod from the NC Forum said he plans to spend his day annoying New York Democrats. I had to look twice to see if it was a post from Anoreth, since she also finds it an amusing pastime to provoke libs.


2,781 posted on 07/19/2015 8:11:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Monkey Face

Beam me up face I want to have some BBQ too.

Mmmm. BBQ.


2,782 posted on 07/19/2015 8:11:40 AM PDT by Gefn (Books, ice cream, FRiends,, Free Republic, and kitties. Things I'm grateful for.)
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To: Tax-chick

Mom got a pair of shorts for me. Supposed to go to 105.


2,783 posted on 07/19/2015 8:13:19 AM PDT by Gefn (Books, ice cream, FRiends,, Free Republic, and kitties. Things I'm grateful for.)
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To: Gefn; Monkey Face

We have 100s forecast, too. I’ve actually been wearing shorts this morning (that my mother gave me), but now I need to get Real Clothes on for church and give lunch to Frank and Kathleen.


2,784 posted on 07/19/2015 8:14:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Gefn

You are invited, but I don’t know if the pork is Kosher...I could ask a Rabbi... (bad joke)


2,785 posted on 07/19/2015 8:19:02 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Tax-chick

The guy who wants to share the ribs is a conservative so we sit around and trash and bash the latest in Liberal Fantasy Land. There are a couple of others who join us, but they aren’t “regulars.” They just join when their days will allow it.


2,786 posted on 07/19/2015 8:21:22 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Monkey Face

Sounds like some of the people who hang out at the gym in Monroe.


2,787 posted on 07/19/2015 8:25:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Tax-chick

Our moms must think alike.


2,788 posted on 07/19/2015 8:28:28 AM PDT by Gefn (Books, ice cream, FRiends,, Free Republic, and kitties. Things I'm grateful for.)
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To: Monkey Face

A cheeseburger is a beautiful thing. I’m not kosher. No, no.


2,789 posted on 07/19/2015 8:29:38 AM PDT by Gefn (Books, ice cream, FRiends,, Free Republic, and kitties. Things I'm grateful for.)
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To: Gefn

LOL! OKden! Consider yourself invited to the best BBQ country ribs this side of the Pecos! It would be fun to have you visit!!!


2,790 posted on 07/19/2015 8:33:16 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Gefn; Tax-chick

For a child the fifties were an excellent time!

But parents had fears over childhood diseases, polio, measles. munps, scarlet fever,etc. Aside from the chicken pox vaccine, which left a scar, there were no others until Dr. Salk made his break thru polio vaccine,IIRC.

Moms and grams wore dresses and aprons while working around the house. The aprons had several pouches as I recall. Made confiscation of contraband boyhood toys and critters easier. Don’t recall a vacuum cleaner until later.

No wall to wall carpeting in our neighborhood. Rugs were taken outside and the dust beaten out of them with, ta-da, carpet beaters. My job and every other boy’s in the neighborhood on Saturday mornings after breakfast. Pretending I was the favorite baseball hitter of the season, I enjoyed swing for the fences with every whack. The bamboo poles from the rugs made excellent toy spears, lances, and flagpoles for us.

Dusting and floor sweeping was a daily job, made easier because houses were smaller then and after breakfast nobody was really there until dinner time. Kids were in school and outside unless the weather was really, really bad.

Dusting under the bed was kids work.
Didn’t know what a dust bunny was until well into high school, and it wasn’t from our house.

BTW, cauliflower is not a vaccine for child hoof and mouth disease. My mom hoodwinked me with that to stop me biting my toenails at age four. It worked though. Still hate cauliflower and if offered it I just say, “No thanks, already has my shots and no longer have the compulsion to chew my townails.”


2,791 posted on 07/19/2015 8:33:49 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who 4refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

That was the smallpox vaccine that left a scar. Chicken pox vaccine was a late-comer to our young adulthood...about the time our own kids were getting vaccinated.

My smallpox vaccination almost killed me. And one was all I needed to “Just say, ‘NO!’” I was an adult at the time.


2,792 posted on 07/19/2015 8:37:09 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: null and void

Glad to hear that. Still a pain for you though.

I unlinked my accounts from automatic access from each other to limit potential damages. Realized that I never used the overdraft coverage and that it a potential point of access.


2,793 posted on 07/19/2015 8:38:11 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who 4refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Gefn; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Covenantor
"Mom got a pair of shorts for me. Supposed to go to 105."

You're never fully dressed without a fan.

A pair of socks can get separated in the wash, but that never happens to a pair of shorts.

2,794 posted on 07/19/2015 8:38:33 AM PDT by NicknamedBob ("Australia: Every animal is one of three types: Dangerous, Poisonous, or sheep." Rorschach's Blot)
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To: Gefn

I wouldn’t have shorts if my mom didn’t give them to me.


2,795 posted on 07/19/2015 8:41:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Monkey Face

You’re right. For some reason I was vaccinated twice for smallpox. Have the two scars, faded but there.

For some reason I never had a fear of needles. A boy thing.


2,796 posted on 07/19/2015 8:41:44 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who 4refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: NicknamedBob
You're never fully dressed without a fan.

Sally Rand said that, right? Or was it Liberace?

2,797 posted on 07/19/2015 8:47:07 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who 4refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Folks were often vaccinated twice for smallpox — once as kids and again as an adult, usually when they entered the military.

I never had a fear of needles, either, until I was in a car accident. In order to repair the damage to my face, the doctors had to give me a shot in the cheek. It was so painful, I passed out. To this day, I can’t stand needles.

Unless I’m knitting, of course!


2,798 posted on 07/19/2015 9:01:20 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Covenantor; NicknamedBob

Liberace hid behind his candelabra...


2,799 posted on 07/19/2015 10:45:49 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

Liberace needed to hide.


2,800 posted on 07/19/2015 11:05:18 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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