Posted on 03/21/2006 11:12:37 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe
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Efforts to coax the animal down failed. A week later, on Monday, March 20, would-be rescuers came to Piper's aid. Then, something went terribly wrong, but this time all was okay in the end.
The cat fell nearly 80 feet, clipped a branch on the way down and then landed on its feet and ran away. Piper, no doubt, used up at least a couple of his feline nine lives, but otherwise appeared to have survived the ordeal without serious injuries.
"I am scared to death, but at least she's down and she's running, so I know she's alive and thank you everybody for coming out," Scottie Colvin said.
"She's part of the family. She needs her eye looked at. It's really infected while she was up there. She seems to be pretty strong right now. She's not favoring her ribs where she broke that limb when she fell down. Take her to the vet, that's where we're headed now," Rodney Colvin said.
When I lived in Radford, VA I joined the rescue squad. We used to interface with the other local rescue squads. The volunteer fire department over in Bluefield, West Virginia responded to a call with a cat in the tree. They took one of their fire trucks over equipped with a ladder to get the cat out of the tree. The rescue was a complete success and they were able to get the cat down. However, when the lady who owned the cat was telling them all what a bunch of nice young men they were, they backed the fire truck over the cat. One poor guy was trying to give mouth to mouth to the cat in order to revive it or possibly re-inflate it.
Clinton blames the NRA.
Fantastic! I guess the first 8000 feet don't really matter, it's what happens in the last 30!
Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/free_fall and then scroll down to people surviving free fall. Isn't the internet fantastic?
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