Half my town's power went out the other day because of a "suicidal squirrel". It climbed on top of a transformer & got "toasted". Happens so often that they're putting in "anti-squirrel devices". Don't ask me how they work. I just know it's meant to discourage those little rascals from climbing up there.
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Would have been handy at my last house. Roughly once every two years when I was living there, we'd lose power because a squirrel ran up one specific utility pole (ALWAYS that same one!), get too close to the big humming cylinder, and *POP* goes the weasel. Best case scenario: No power for the block for 5 hours, and an unfortunate electric company dude who has to clean off the radial-pattern of soot (on the upside, soot was all that was left...)"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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In a morbid sense it would be fascinating to watch it in slow-mo just to see how a living thing can be turned to soot.
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A. there's a news report about squirrels tunneling into nuclear bases so I don't think they will be stopped
http://www.northernbroadcasting.com/...Squirrels.aspx
B. Suicidal Squirrels is a great band name.Interviewer: What is your greatest weakness?
Me: I expect competence from my coworkers.
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Quoth gremcint View PostB. Suicidal Squirrels is a great band name.The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
"Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
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