Flaming Hawk With Snake in Its Talons Sparks Fire Near La Jolla

NBC Bay Area ^ | Tuesday, Jun 9, 2015 | R. Stickney

[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.

[Gefn]

Mu mom was stunned several years ago when she learned Wasserman tests were no longer required for marriage at a nieces’ wedding reception.

Wasserman test. That’s a good trivia question. Right up there with Rabbit test.

[Monkey Face]

Oops. I just felt a radical mood swing, and suddenly, I’m not fit to be around man nor beast.

Later, y’all...

[NicknamedBob]

"... and suddenly, I’m not fit to be around man nor beast."

Considering that, at least Darksheare and I will be here for you.

[Darksheare]

Do we count as either man or beast?

[NoCmpromiz]

Shouldn't that be neither man nor beast?

You know, the exclusive comparative rather than the inclusive..

[Darksheare]

*SSshh!*
I’m trying to find wiggle room for “Eldritch thing masquerading as human” within the set rules.

[NicknamedBob]

I’m trying to find wiggle room for “Eldritch thing masquerading as human” within the set rules.

For both of us.

"Eldritch?", Judge NnB said, "I am Eldritch!"

I was eldritch when eldritch was new.

[Tax-chick]

It sounds like this needs an arbitrator. I’d call Tom, but he’s still at camp for another week.

[Tax-chick]

Wasserman test ... I understand that used to be a thing, but it wasn’t when I got married in 1989.

[Gefn]

Well, I misspelled Wassermann. Two nn.

4 states still require it.

http://usmarriagelaws.com/search/united_states/blood_test_requirements/

Interesting trivia.

[Tax-chick]

Interesting trivia.

I wonder if, in the states that require a test, it’s a test for all extant STDs, or just for the ones that were prevalent at the time the law was passed.

[Gefn]

I don’t know. I don’t plan on getting married.

TC, has Kathleen used the potty?

[Tax-chick]

Many times, but not for the Main Event, as it were.

[Gefn]

Dang!

[Tax-chick]

I know. It’s a drag.

[Covenantor]

[Tax-chick]

Yes, exactly.

[ThomasThomas]

I though I might add a water feature in my backyard but put if off because of the drought.

[Tax-chick]

“How high’s the water, Mama?”

“Two feet high and risin’.”

“How high’s the water, Papa?”

“She said it’s two feet high and risin’.”

“Well we can make it to the road in a homemade boat, ‘cause that’s the on’y thing we got left that’ll float. It’s already over all the wheat and oats. Two feet high and risin’.”

This song is about the floods in (iirc) 1943. My father was an exact contemporary of Johnny Cash, and he remembered boating through the corn fields in that year ... and then again, along about 1992.

[GeronL]

swim!