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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

LOL!


3,461 posted on 07/29/2015 1:51:53 PM 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; GeronL

Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma chameleon.
The one I know, the one I wrooooote!
Comma will get me if comma don’t like my writ!


3,462 posted on 07/29/2015 1:52:28 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

lol


3,463 posted on 07/29/2015 1:54:37 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Worst part is, mental image is of a chameleon made up of commas.
*sigh*
I am also guilty of comma splices.


3,464 posted on 07/29/2015 1:55:37 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: moose07

LOL! The is no A/C in the BB SUV, so if I want to be cool, I stay indoors. I do go to the patio in the mid-morning to sit with the rest of the ol’ geezers and solve the problems of the world, but for the most part, if I have to do errands, I do them between 0500 — 0900. After that, it’s too much and my lungs start to tell me how much they hate me.


3,465 posted on 07/29/2015 1:55:43 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Darksheare

After re-entry the capsule can fly like a badly designed plane! lol


3,466 posted on 07/29/2015 1:56:08 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Monkey Face
I’ll just use Firefox for now. It’s just hard to get used to

Shouldn't take too long to get used to it though. Of course if you have used internut exploder forever, there will be a learning curve.. ;-)

Seriously, it has been quite a while - like more than a year - since I ran into a website that required IE to display properly so given IE's negatives (security being the biggest, followed by non support of current internet standards, followed by its dismissal into 'unwanted stepchild' status with the advent of winTen and the new 'edge', there is no compelling reason to keep it around. Even on winAte... ;-)

3,467 posted on 07/29/2015 1:56:46 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Monkey Face

In 5 more posts some lucky winner will get 3456.

But it probably won’t be me. It’s almost time to go home and move the car to the alternate side of the street.


3,468 posted on 07/29/2015 1:56:50 PM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: GeronL

Pretty much his plan at the time.


3,469 posted on 07/29/2015 1:56:56 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: moose07

I should have noticed the next page.

You won post 3456.

What did you get?


3,470 posted on 07/29/2015 1:57:43 PM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: Darksheare
They spliced the DNA of comma's! Now there are Comma People!


3,471 posted on 07/29/2015 1:58:08 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Monkey Face
I know of at least ONE “normal” person in that family, but she is so VERY badly outnumbered!!!

She is also very deceiving... ;-)

3,472 posted on 07/29/2015 1:59:10 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Monkey Face

Even Microsoft has abandoned Internet Explorer in favor of the new Edge.... for Windows 10...


3,473 posted on 07/29/2015 1:59:25 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: ArGee

Wha....????

Time for you to go home, ArGee. The heat is obviously getting to you. That, or you got some bad pizza!


3,474 posted on 07/29/2015 1:59:37 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: GeronL

An invasion!


3,475 posted on 07/29/2015 1:59:38 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Monkey Face

I went to a training on homeless intake and learned about the Methadone program. They give you perscription Methadone so you won’t take illegal Heroin and possibly do something awful to yourself.

But, of course, you will be on Methadone for the rest of your life if they have their way. And they will get paid by the government for every pill you take.

If you take <= 30mg a dose you could probably detox in a 3-5 day program. If you take > 30mg it’s more like a year.

Guess how often the prescribe <= 30mg?

Do I sound cynical?


3,476 posted on 07/29/2015 2:00:18 PM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: ArGee

A little. :p


3,477 posted on 07/29/2015 2:01:09 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Time for me to bail. If my brain can handle it, I will start reading up on Linux.


3,478 posted on 07/29/2015 2:01:19 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Darksheare; GeronL

If your Comma Chameleon changed 2/3 of your commas to semicolons, you’d have an awful lot of semicolons, but you’d no longer have comma splices.


3,479 posted on 07/29/2015 2:07:10 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: ArGee

With CFIDS, besides being insidious in other ways, prescription drugs are filthy. Period. They either mimic the symptoms, have no effect at all or are an over-dose. I am not here to be a guinea pig for the Pharma-Giants. All they can do is treat the symptoms with a HUGH variety of different uber-expensive pills and I just can’t go through that. I tried it. It was hell.

So I began to research the symptoms and looked for natural remedies to help heal the areas that I was having problems with. I now spend about $250 a month on herbal remedies, but I have finally reached a place where I almost feel like a real person again. CFIDS changed who I am, but I’m beginning to feel like a human again.

In moments of stress, however, I’m a babbling idiot and I need to find my village.


3,480 posted on 07/29/2015 2:09:35 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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