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OH SNAP. Or, more literally, oh dark.
Dominion Power says that a squirrel is to blame. They aren’t sure what happened but say the squirrel got in between two wires. In addition to all the customers without power 1,200 customers were left without full power. [WC]
Squirrel Power!
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Well at least we don’t have to worry about terrorist taking down the power grid…
I was relieved to learn it was an “animal” as the Dominion Power automated response line called it. At first I assumed the problem was just at my house and would entail costly repairs. We had no power for something like two hours.
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I immediately assumed it was an act of freedom hating terrorism, as I am sure most of you did. After readying my saran wrap and duct tape, I called the federal TIPS line and informed on all my neighbor’s strange behaviors, whether or not they were related to electricity. After patroling the perimeter of my bountiful quarter acre of god’s country for unattended baggage, I retreated to the fortified portion of my domicile for further instructions from FOX news. As I waited, I started putting the pieces together. A power outage, eh? Caused by something non-technological, eh? Yes my friends, it can only mean one thing… a fear as yet unimagined by even the most paranoid and diligent patriotic think tanks and focus groups. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but what we are experiencing can only be the work of: AMISH JIHAD!!!
I always thought those beards looked awfully familiar. You may call me a fool, but this citizen will be keeping his eyes out for buggies packed with fertilizer. You’ll thank me later.
that fucking squirrel hung dead outside my house for SIX DAYS. at one point an ice storm came through and turned him into a popsicle. then he thawed and dropped back to the earth. i picked him up with two sticks and gave him back to god, or the sewer, however you want to look at it.
Just an un-fun fact here, but it’s a bad idea to put dead squirrels (or anything other than clean water, really) into the storm drain. Anything that goes into the storm drain goes straight into the rivers untreated, which can be trouble for obvious reasons.
Unfortunately, it’s one of those things that is relatively unknown and not especially well advertised.
Anyhow, enviro time over; back to merriment!
real nice parlie. go cut some brake lines while you’re at it.
cooper is right. never do what i did.
tom: you need to lock it up.
no you lock it up
you’re a towel!
Don’t animals die in rivers daily?
no, that’s a misconception. they die on the ground, then rot and slowly decay INTO the rivers. untreated.
my water has been tasting like freeze-dried squirrel lately – thanks loads parlie!
Erh, I thought squirrels were bio-degradable?…
Based on the amounts of anti-biotics and anti-depressants in our streams and rivers, be they from cow-poop, people-poop, or pills poured out in the toilet, I’d be surprised if that squirrel remained dead long. I’d bet he’s out there somewhere plotting an even bigger blackout as we type. If you want your next dead squirrel to stay dead, stuff it in your neighbor’s tail-pipe, drop it in a mailbox (with correct postage), launch it into space, or turn it into squirrel melts (Mmmmm..) but DON’T go contaminating my used motor oil by putting it in a storm drain.
just kidding… do what that other guy said.
Dude. Squirrels get depressed too. Anti depressants? Like SSRI’s? You mean Selective Squirrel Re-uptake Inhibitors?
/jeez, ize loaded. time to put the keyboard down.
make it wait for service at MAS, send it to a Kucinich rally, get it a job building the 29 bypass, put it on the ballot as a republican in C-ville,… missed an opportunity there, YOU BLOCKHEAD!!! (Charlie Brown’s Christmas special on ABC)
[happiness really is a warm puppy, though]
any other suggestions?
way to kill the environment parlie!
nay-nay, thats the best you can do?
Hey, I just got a new keyboard with A’s and !’s. I’m taking it slow.
Man, I hate squirrels! That punk had our power off all day yesterday. The way I see it, he owes my wife $300 in lost productivity.
Why…. does she only like to do it with the light on?
Floozy! That’s absolutely enough. Grow up and leave the Gobbler alone.
Seiously, that’s totally unnecessary. Comment #22 should be removed. And this one, too.
But then comment # 23 won’t make any damn sense, will it?
Mmmkay.
somebody/gobbler, try again, and maybe use a different e-mail next time
Oh please Thor… remove my comment. The sheer INFAMY would thrill me ’til next tax year.
this internet war is sweet. hopefully it never ends.
oh and also, sorry about the squirrel. he had been dead for 6 days suspended in the sky. he did more with his death than i may ever do with my life.
but still, WAR!