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(Message started by: Frank_W on Jul 20^th, 2005, 11:45am)

Title: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Frank_W on Jul 20^th, 2005, 11:45am

"Squirrels Gone Wild!"? LOL

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002390256_webpyrosquirrels19.html

SQUIRREL FIRES REGULAR OCCURRENCE IN CANADIAN BORDER TOWN

The Associated Press

OSOYOOS, British Columbia — Once again, a squirrel clambering onto a power line has been blamed for a brush fire in this border town north of Oroville, Wash.

Firefighters were summoned Monday after a squirrel scrambled up a Fortis Inc. utility pole, got zapped and landed in flames on some dry brush outside a fruit packing business, Fire Chief Ross Driver said.

By the time a pumper truck and a bush truck arrived, nearby residents had doused the flames.

"This identical incident has happened on the same pole one or two times a year for the past several years," Driver said.

Each time, firefighters find a dead, burned squirrel at the base of the utility pole, he said.

Driver said he didn't know what Fortis could do to prevent future squirrel-caused fires.

Copyright © 2005 The Seattle Times Company

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Michael on Jul 20^th, 2005, 11:50am

Gunhead, thou shall not steal.

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by seasonalboomer on Jul 20^th, 2005, 11:56am

O, SO, YOOS think maybe youcan stack that their dry brush over a little to the left of the utility line. Damned flamin' squirrels keep on gettin' into it right there.

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Margi on Jul 20^th, 2005, 12:20pm

we had a kamakazi squirrel do that in our back yard one year too. Didn't start a fire but did fry himself pretty badly on our power pole - knocked our power out for an hour or so. He did live to tell about it though, he was still alive when we moved a few years later. How do I know it was the same squirrel, you ask? Pretty easy to pick that little dude out of a crowd. Squirrels really aren't all that cute when they're completely bald. :-/

We might be headed down Osoyoos way this weekend, actually - gorgeous country, Canada's very own Maui! Beautiful beaches, hot temps, never gets any snow.

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by fubar on Jul 20^th, 2005, 12:50pm

God Bless our squirrel freedom fighters. They know full well the tyranny perpetrated by the overlords of the North.

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Margi on Jul 20^th, 2005, 12:52pm

LMAO Shawn! ;)

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Frank_W on Jul 20^th, 2005, 1:07pm

on 07/20/05 at 11:50:14, Michael wrote:

Gunhead, thou shall not steal.

Yeah... I stole from myself. LOL

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Racer1_NC on Jul 20^th, 2005, 1:16pm

on 07/20/05 at 13:07:45, Frank_W wrote:

Yeah... I stole from myself. LOL

Acquisitional masterbation?

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Michael on Jul 20^th, 2005, 1:35pm

And, spruce up your other profile. Maybe something NSFW or...?

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Frank_W on Jul 20^th, 2005, 2:21pm

on 07/20/05 at 13:16:48, Racer1_NC wrote:

Acquisitional masterbation?

Something like that. It does keep me entertained, though! LOL

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Charlie on Jul 20^th, 2005, 6:14pm

Thanks.

One more way to handle my squirrel population :o

Seriously, that's gotta hurt. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/Shocked & Awed.png

Charlie

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Bob P on Jul 20^th, 2005, 6:21pm

We have that rpoblem with turkey vultures. After the Calif. Dept. of Forestry got done putting out the last brush fire, an electrician presented my with a vulture leg (that's all that was left of the poor thing).

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by pattik on Jul 20^th, 2005, 6:48pm

That happened once to a poor fellow on a pole in front of my place. Someone should put up squirrel baffles for electrical poles. :-/ Here is a pic of one of his grandkids on my squirrel feeder..
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y71/northcolor/DSC04752w.jpg

Title: Re: Suicidal Pyromaniac Squirrels Attack Canada!
Post by Frank_W on Jul 20^th, 2005, 7:25pm

on 07/20/05 at 18:21:53, Bob P wrote:

Well damn, Bob! It sounds like it was already cooked and everything! How'd it taste? ;;D