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.
Way way waaaaaaaaay back when I was in school and typing my paper on a typewriter (one of the new-fangled electric jobbies) I had to keep re-typing a word because I couldn’t get it to look right. I couldn’t remember whether it was “ov” or “ove”.
By the time I remembered it was “of” I decided it was time to quit for the night.
I’m glad your polyps are normal. Abnormal polyps lead to very dark fiction.
Well! Now THAT is good news! (I’m uninsurable and have been since 1988)
WHOA! I’ve never read anything by HP Lovecraft, and I think, now, I’m glad I didn’t. *sheesh* Don’t think I will, either.
But...but... where do you think I got some inspiration from?
/ needle needle
Well, no doubt from some nefarious denizen of the deep dark galactic netherworlds...no doubt you go there often... ;o]
Heh heh heh, maybe.
I never said my polyps were normal. Don't be starting any nasty rumors about me.
Why should my polyps be the first normal thing about me?
They are actually aliens from an inner dimension and they hang out on my gallbladder because my spleen keeps venting and disturbing their naps.
There’s a novel in this ...
I'm glad to see there may be some possible monetary gain by the collusion collaboration of you two Manly Men. I mean, who doesn't want to read about alien beings from Inner Space?
I just finished the first draft of my new will. Now, I have to figure out the finer points, but I think that will have to wait until I have a chance to look over the Living Trust packet. I may have to change the wording on the will's first page. What fun this is! (If my kids only knew.)
My stomach is killing me. I just had an ulcer cocktail, but it hasn't done much to calm things down. I'm going to see if I have enough change to get some more bananas. They aren't much, but I only buy two at a time, as they go bad before I can eat them. And I usually only eat them in ulcer cocktails.
There is definitely book material in there somewhere.
The pancreas may be involved, might even be a gang!
Wellnow. That really makes me think I’m doing something painfully normal and boring. I mean, how exciting can Wills, Codicils and Living Trusts be compared to polyps, gallbladders, spleens and pancreae?
So, ArGee, does your little foray this morning mean you sluffed work?
I’d have a joke clause in the will.
Something about deeding Rellavia to my loyal servant and advisor Dark Lord Nograth upon my untimely end.
Just to mess with people.
The people I would be messing with would have no clue and then my “sound mind” would come into question, for sure. ;o]
That’s when you have something like a spoon engraved with “Rellavia” and a picture of someone labeled as “Dark Lord Nograth”, but have them identifiable by their proper name.
Ah. Brilliant!
He tells everyone that he's going to work, but we know..
Everyone is on t’me...
Hey-y-y-y-y-y-y.....I wonder if he could do some nocturnal messing with the Coywolves in your area? Chances are good that he could put some gris-gris on them that would halt their coming to pester the felines that own you.
Or, as an ancient remedy, you could buy some few odd fathom of rope and make a Wolf Ring...
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