Tenacious_Peaches Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Squirrel Leaves Trail of Destruction in its Wake SPOKANE -- A squirrel ignited a fiery chain reaction that led to a power line collapse, car fire, natural gas fire and a power outage in northwest Spokane Wednesday morning. It all started at 8:22 a.m. in the 4900 block of North Hartley at Wellesley when, according to Avista investigators, a squirrel came in contact with a transformer. That single action set in motion a chain of events. First, the power line burned through causing the line to fall to the ground and come into contact with a metal fence and a car. The car caught on fire. The fence, meanwhile, was energized by the fallen power line and the electricity was conducted underground to a natural gas pipeline which in turn burned through and started an underground natural gas fire which burned up to two gas meters at nearby houses. The fire department extinguished the fires while Avista shut off the natural gas pipeline. Power was restored to the 155 residents in the area near the incident around noon. The squirrel did not survive the melee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_s_1987 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Terrorists, schmerrorists. It's time we started the "War On Squirrels". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 The squirrel did not survive the melee. That is my second favorite sentence of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberjudge Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 That is my second favorite sentence of all time. What is your favorite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 The squirrel did not survive the melee. Poor little squirrel... it was an accident!! That little thing is a thousand million times more innocent than any human polluting the air with their cigarette or car... I must stand for animal rights... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 this sounds like a scene straight out of "Gremlins." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10000Days Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Anybody see the Pauly Shore movie BioDome? Yea, Well in it they talk about a Chipmunk ingesting fertilizer, spontaneously combusting and setting several house on fire. That news feed reminded me of it..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted October 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 You mean the cinematic masterpiece starring the boyishly gregarious Master Paul Shore and the delightful troglodyte Stephen Baldwin, Esq.? The same slice of celluloid heaven that gave humankind its first taste of the then unknown greatest band in the world, Tenacious D? Never heard of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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