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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

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: splat
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Heaven help us if we ever hae a real emergency.
1 posted on 05/21/2011 4:25:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Is the bird OK?


2 posted on 05/21/2011 4:27:34 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: BenLurkin

When she hit the bottom...did she see more birds circling around her head?


3 posted on 05/21/2011 4:28:03 PM PDT by max americana (.)
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To: BenLurkin

The bird had no comment.


4 posted on 05/21/2011 4:28:59 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: BenLurkin

Are we going to ban cement, bird ownership, or both now?


5 posted on 05/21/2011 4:29:15 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: BenLurkin
There was one comment at the linked article.

It made me LOL.

6 posted on 05/21/2011 4:30:31 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: BenLurkin

Lets not be too quick to judge this poor woman....

She didn’t intentionally do this, no doubt she was very upset and not thinking clearly nor did she anticipate the dangers. Otherwise, in a crisis maybe she is very good in acting rationally and even helping others.
I sure have done some really stupid things when I was uspet..ha.

she has her bird, she will be ok and that is good.


7 posted on 05/21/2011 4:31:10 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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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.


8 posted on 05/21/2011 4:32:41 PM PDT by RobertClark (On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.)
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I defintely think a national ban on anything made of cement is in order!!

“Now, the average person has objects made of cement,soon only criminals will have cement!”

Maxine Waters, please pick up the white courtesy phone...we need you to sponsor a new bill!


9 posted on 05/21/2011 4:33:47 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: Cicero

A net was reportedly used to capture the bird just downriver.


10 posted on 05/21/2011 4:35:44 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RobertClark

PERFECT!
YOU’RE BRILLIANT!

we will create a deep cement ditch all along the southern border..THEN, to protect the illegals, we will put up an electrified fence....!

( oh, yeah, and alligators in the cement ditch! We’re conservatives after all.)


11 posted on 05/21/2011 4:36:17 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: BenLurkin

And in other news, LA has cement rivers.


12 posted on 05/21/2011 4:41:02 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice)
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To: BenLurkin

They make it sound as if she fell straight down 20 feet.. The wall is on an incline.. She probably rolled down it.. No serious injuries.. What a Do Do bird! :)


13 posted on 05/21/2011 4:41:49 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Give me Liberty or I'll stand up and get it for myself!")
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To: BenLurkin

Birdbrain...

LOL


14 posted on 05/21/2011 4:45:58 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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So, if I understand correctly, she swam in still liquid cement?


15 posted on 05/21/2011 4:47:11 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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And in other news, LA has cement rivers.

...set in their ways...

16 posted on 05/21/2011 4:47:36 PM PDT by bigheadfred (We will never surrender)
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She’s lucky. She coulda been eaten by a giant ant.


17 posted on 05/21/2011 4:49:22 PM PDT by Krankor (And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
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She’s lucky. She coulda been eaten by a giant ant.

LOL. That's the first thing that comes to mind whenever I hear of the LA River.

18 posted on 05/21/2011 4:55:10 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: BenLurkin

This would have been a great scene in A Fish Called Wanda.


19 posted on 05/21/2011 4:55:14 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I agree—loyalty is a good thing.


20 posted on 05/21/2011 5:10:53 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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