Chasing Pet Bird, Woman Falls Onto Cement Floor Of LA River

AP) ^ | May 21, 2011 3:49 PM

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[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.

[EternalVigilance]

Somehow this seems apropos:

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

[steveo]

MARIE!

[metesky]

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

[csvset]

I'll see that and raise you.

Coyote Fall

[EternalVigilance]

Pretty good.

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

[Jack Hydrazine]

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.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

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

[Las Vegas Ron]

Well hey, we park on driveways and drive on parkways....and you want people to understand the difference between cement and concrete?

;)

[Inyo-Mono]

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."

[Smokin' Joe]

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.

[Windflier]

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.

[I Buried My Guns]

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.

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