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Title: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: thundley4 on September 20, 2010, 05:15:59 PM
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HACKENSACK — A squirrel’s fatal encounter with a utility pole caused a car fire in the city Sunday morning, officials said.

Hackensack police were notified around 7:30 a.m. that a car was burning on Elm Avenue, said Sgt. James Prise. Police and fire units arrived to find a four-door Acura engulfed in flames with a power line hanging next to the car, Prise said.

The car was unoccupied, Prise said, and the fire department extinguished the flames.

Everton Scott, a spokesman for Public Service Electric & Gas, said that a squirrel found dead at the scene apparently caused the power line to fall, which in turn sparked the car fire. Animals can short out electrical lines when they make contact with two wires at the same time, Scott said.
 
About 89 customers in the area lost power for a few minutes as a result of the incident, Scott said.
When squirrels attack. (http://www.northjersey.com/news/091910_Squirrel_mishap_leads_to_hackensack_car_fire.html)

This was just a trial run for the terrorist squirrels.  Ptarmy is looking in the wrong place for the enemies of man.
Title: Re: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: IassaFTots on September 20, 2010, 05:19:44 PM
Squirrels are the DEBIL!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: Boudicca on September 20, 2010, 05:29:51 PM
OK, I have an online friend who's going to try to put the thong on the gopher, he's so awesome.

AHEM, the above was written in another thread by Ballgrl.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,48803.0.html

You need to call your friend, BG, and let him know the gopher/squirrel is no more.  He was NOT protected by wearing a DUmmie thong.

Squirrels are cute little rodents though.  I always cried whenever I hit one with my car driving in VA.  None out here that I notice in AZ and the roadrunners are as fast as the cartoons portrayed.
Title: Re: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 20, 2010, 07:25:09 PM
Squirrels are evil too besides rabbits, stoats, and gyrfalcons.
Title: Re: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: Boudicca on September 20, 2010, 08:53:45 PM
Squirrels are evil too besides rabbits, stoats, and gyrfalcons.

WHAT, pray tell, besides ptarmigans are NOT on your hit list, dear heart? :naughty: :rotf:
Title: Re: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: IassaFTots on September 20, 2010, 09:30:51 PM
WHAT, pray tell, besides ptarmigans are NOT on your hit list, dear heart? :naughty: :rotf:

BACON!  Duh!   :thatsright:

Well, at least I hope so. 
Title: Re: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: Boudicca on September 20, 2010, 09:52:38 PM
BACON!  Duh!   :thatsright:

Well, at least I hope so. 

Of course, we all LOVE bacon and all other pork products here on CC, right? :lmao:
Title: Re: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: NHSparky on September 21, 2010, 07:06:52 AM
You'd be amazed what'll trip a transformer off line.  When I was in Guam, ONE brown tree snake falling across transformer windings or power lines would turn half the friggin island dark.  More than once.
Title: Re: Squirrel mishap leads to Hackensack car fire
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 21, 2010, 09:03:15 PM
You'd be amazed what'll trip a transformer off line.  When I was in Guam, ONE brown tree snake falling across transformer windings or power lines would turn half the friggin island dark.  More than once.

The brown tree snake is a terrorist!  :lmao: