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Chasing Pet Bird, Woman Falls Onto Cement Floor Of LA River
AP) ^ | May 21, 2011 3:49 PM

Posted on 05/21/2011 4:25:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

Per standard of suing gun store owners, look for the woman to sue the pet store she bought the bird from.


21 posted on 05/21/2011 5:38:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: BenLurkin

I have a problem with people using the word “cement” when they mean “concrete”; they are not interchangeable, yet people write and say it all the time.…To clarify, cement is the powder used to make concrete. The hardened surfaces on which we walk and drive are concrete, not cement. It’s really no big deal, just something that leaps out at me when I read it or hear it.


22 posted on 05/21/2011 5:42:17 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: BenLurkin

Somehow this seems apropos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218


23 posted on 05/21/2011 5:46:30 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (GOP mantra: 'Repeal and replace.' Translation? 'We can do socialism better than the Democrats.')
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To: BenLurkin

MARIE!


24 posted on 05/21/2011 5:48:59 PM PDT by steveo (PETO-VT-IN-MARI-SVB-CRVCE-AVSTRALI-SEPELIAR)
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To: al baby

Me too. Was in constuction for most of my life and that just irks me.


25 posted on 05/21/2011 5:50:51 PM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: EternalVigilance
I'll see that and raise you.

Coyote Fall

26 posted on 05/21/2011 5:51:11 PM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

Pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218


27 posted on 05/21/2011 5:54:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (GOP mantra: 'Repeal and replace.' Translation? 'We can do socialism better than the Democrats.')
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To: BenLurkin

She must have been trying to do something similar when Lloyd ran off the jetway to catch his bird after it taxied away in “Dumb and Dumber.”


28 posted on 05/21/2011 5:59:28 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Cicero

I was curious to know if the cops showed up and shot the bird since they have penchant for shooting pets.


29 posted on 05/21/2011 6:03:16 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: al baby
Well hey, we park on driveways and drive on parkways....and you want people to understand the difference between cement and concrete?

;)

30 posted on 05/21/2011 6:11:42 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Woah, Obama will appease Trump, but not Lakin? Thanks LSM)
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To: al baby
I have a problem with people using the word “cement” when they mean “concrete”; they are not interchangeable, yet people write and say it all the time.…To clarify, cement is the powder used to make concrete. The hardened surfaces on which we walk and drive are concrete, not cement. It’s really no big deal, just something that leaps out at me when I read it or hear it.

Kind of like me when I read the word "font" when they really mean "typeface."

31 posted on 05/21/2011 6:12:57 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: RobertClark
Oh crap, this will now require the liberals to introduce legislation mandating 15’ tall, impervious fences to protect people from their ignorance. Of course, if it would impede the movement of illegals, we will just have to live without it.

Nah, they'd just mandate fence crossing structures every 100 feet...at taxpayer expense.

32 posted on 05/21/2011 9:32:01 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
They make it sound as if she fell straight down 20 feet.. The wall is on an incline..

Parts of the L.A. river, particularly around that part of town, do have vertical walls.

Hollywood always shoots the part of the river that runs through downtown L.A., so that's all most folks are familiar with. That section does have a sloped embankment.

33 posted on 05/22/2011 8:09:22 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
So many movies have utilized the paved LA river in them. Escape from NY is the one that springs to mind first (the early outdoor scens with Lee Van Cleef and the resolution scene at the very end), but then there is Terminator 2, and To Live and Die in L.A., etc.

Feel free to add.

34 posted on 05/23/2011 9:21:16 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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