Posted on 04/27/2013 8:38:58 AM PDT by Migraine
CONCHO — There is an old saying about eating crow when one is in the wrong, but what happens to a crow who makes a faulty decision?
One such bird who made the wrong decision paid the ultimate price, and then some.
A small brush fire in Old Concho was started around 1:30 p.m. on April 22 by a crow that was wiresitting on a telephone pole. According to Vernon Fire Chief James Borrego, the crow touched the wire in such a way that the bird caught fire and fell to the ground.
The area where the crow fell was covered in grass. That started a four-acre brush fire near the Country Club.
Firefighters from the Vernon, St. Johns and Concho fire departments showed up and put it out in short order. There was no damage to any structures nor anyone hurt, other than the bird.
Borrego said putting out the fire was not a huge task, although high winds that afternoon hampered efforts.
“This is definitely a first for me,” Borrego said about the circumstances of the fire.
Reach the reporter at mleiby@wmicentral.com
This is in Arizona, by the way.
Crows might be the smartest animals on the planet. This one got a tad unlucky.
No kidding. I think the crow community of Concho is in session right now, plotting revenge. They are quite the terrorists, you know.
Poor crow. :-(
Experiments on crow intelligence over the last decade have revealed shocking data that may indeed place them as incredibly bright. Their tool skills exceed primate tool skills.
Bull....the crow was smoking weeds.
Well this heckler was definitely both shocking and bright that particular day... :)
Do crows qualify for Darwin Awards?
There are probably less 'crow' electrocutions than there are human ones, even with the given that crows spend much of their time with their feet planted on a high energy line.
I don't see how that could happen unless there was a poor design, or there was something wrong with the wires or pole.
Both crows and stellar jays have swooped down and snatched pancakes off of unattended plates a couple of times over the years on camping trips.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19042_6-terrifying-ways-crows-are-way-smarter-than-you-think.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
I love crows.
DIDN’T YOU HEAR THE FORESTRY COMMERICIALS ?
DIDN’T YOU HEAR SMOKEY THE BEAR TELL THE KID
9 OUT OF 10 FOREST FIRES ARE STARTED BY PEOPLE ....
OUR GOVERNMNET WOULDN’T LET SMOKEY THE BEAR LIE NOW WOULD IT ?
May have straddled the line and a ground line, or landed on a guy wire and then flapped his wings catching the hot wire above.
In Michigan a few years ago a goose for some reason tried to fly between the wires and his wingtips clipped each one, *POOF*.
Did someone throw the crow a ground wire?
Anybody got any good recipes for fried crow?
Seen it happen before. Crow in right place, reached and touched ground, BANG.
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