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Chasing Pet Bird, Woman Falls Onto Cement Floor Of LA River
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| May 21, 2011 3:49 PM
Posted on 05/21/2011 4:25:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES A woman chasing her wayward pet bird was injured when she fell 20 feet off a concrete wall into a flood control structure on the Los Angeles River....rescue crews needed ladders to retrieve the woman from the cement bottom of the structure in Studio City.
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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: splat
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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.
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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.)
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. Its really no big deal, just something that leaps out at me when I read it or hear it.
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posted on
05/21/2011 5:42:17 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
To: BenLurkin
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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.')
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/21/2011 5:48:59 PM PDT
by
steveo
(PETO-VT-IN-MARI-SVB-CRVCE-AVSTRALI-SEPELIAR)
To: al baby
Me too. Was in constuction for most of my life and that just irks me.
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posted on
05/21/2011 5:50:51 PM PDT
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: EternalVigilance
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posted on
05/21/2011 5:51:11 PM PDT
by
csvset
To: csvset
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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.')
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.”
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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!)
To: Cicero
I was curious to know if the cops showed up and shot the bird since they have penchant for shooting pets.
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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!)
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?
;)
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posted on
05/21/2011 6:11:42 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Woah, Obama will appease Trump, but not Lakin? Thanks LSM)
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. Its 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."
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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)
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.
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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.)
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.
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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.)
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.
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