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
I saw one strike a power line that sent him cartwheeling to the ground with a thud. He then got up and looked around, probably wondering WTH then flew off again.......
They drop walnut shells on the street all the time. Cracks em open. The younger ones have to learn about height but catch on pretty quick.
I guess I live in a place where they don’t put a ground that close to a live wire.
This one flunked electrical engineering in college. His nickname is/was "Sparky".
I saw the results of a similar event about 10 years ago. A wiresitting crow flapped his wings and shorted the two conductors...POOFF!! Tripped the utility breaker and shut the power down in our commercial complex. Went outside and there was the fried and smoking crow at the bottom of the pole.
Stop eating lead paint
Fate you can’t fight it,it’s futile.
Top of your transformer. Safety fuse to transformer case (grounded) or crow standing on trans and pecking at something near high voltage hot connection. Watched it happen to a squirrel once, flaming squirrel, grass-fire and all.
LOL!!!
Nope..
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