Squirrel fell on power line, authorities say

The Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 | K.C. HOWARD

[dighton]

"Ingenious, Boris! But .... what if moose don't have sister?"

Natasha, darling! Is more to møøse and sister affairs than you think. Besides, is State Secret.

[Jonah Hex]

"I understand, Boris dahling, but Fearless Leader says there is no State Secret he does not know!" 

[kstewskis]

The "crispy-critter" defense??

[Harrison Bergeron]

"The police and fire departments work in conjunction with a utility company to ensure that the public is kept away from downed power lines. They also work closely with the utilities to ensure and the lines/equipment are de-energized so they can be repaired, fires can be safely extinguished, people can be rescued from cars,etc. This isn't rocket science."

Something like 8000 police departments (and probably a similar number of fire departments) in the United States and you're asserting that all of them have such impeccably uniform training and high procedural standards that they will act equally prompt and correct during power line events? I was once stuck in traffic while a volunteer FD cordoned off a one block area because of a downed telephone cable. Heck, in many blue zone jurisdictions, police officers aren't even required to have a high school diploma, let alone training in power line event protocols. There's a reason that utility companies have roving trucks on call 24/7 - they aren't going to shut down even one square block of the grid on the say so of a cop or even a fire chief until somebody on their payroll has eyeballed the trouble. In the case of downed and severed power lines, automatic disconnects generally kick in. But to take a cop's say so on the matter makes as much sense as working on a high voltage circuit without a keyed lockout.

[BlueLancer]

"Natasha, darling! Is more to møøse and sister affairs than you think. Besides, is State Secret."

Silence, dumkopf! Is State Secret because squirrel was undercover double-agent for Møøsåd and Pøttsylvånia Måsønic Lødge.

That should give the knuckle-draggers something to worry about ... a secret conspiracy between the Jews and the Masons!

[CDHart]

Thank you to you and the several others who answered my question. Makes sense!

Carolyn

[Metal4Ever]

Our little furry friends are usually big enough to touch two wires at once (for a very short and smokey time).

One blew out the transformer in our neighborhood last year and it took a day to get fixed. !%!@$# thing was char broiled.

[Metal4Ever]

Not to mention the plight of homeless squirrels without national health insurance.

You forget that this squirrel won the landmark Supreme Court decision Rocky vs. PG&E. This wasn't his normal powerline but he got bussed in there as part of desegregation. He wasn't the smartest squirrel either but got the power line because of Affirmative Action.