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Crow starts brush fire
The White Mountain Independent ^
| 4/26/2013
| Mike Leiby
Posted on 04/27/2013 8:38:58 AM PDT by Migraine
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Sometimes you can't win for losin'.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:38:58 AM PDT
by
Migraine
To: Migraine
This is in Arizona, by the way.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:42:30 AM PDT
by
Migraine
To: Migraine
Crows might be the smartest animals on the planet. This one got a tad unlucky.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:42:38 AM PDT
by
sakic
To: sakic
No kidding. I think the crow community of Concho is in session right now, plotting revenge. They are quite the terrorists, you know.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:46:57 AM PDT
by
Migraine
To: Migraine
To: Migraine
Experiments on crow intelligence over the last decade have revealed shocking data that may indeed place them as incredibly bright. Their tool skills exceed primate tool skills.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:51:47 AM PDT
by
sakic
To: Migraine
Bull....the crow was smoking weeds.
To: sakic
Well this heckler was definitely both shocking and bright that particular day... :)
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:56:22 AM PDT
by
Migraine
To: Migraine
Do crows qualify for Darwin Awards?
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:58:18 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: sakic
Crows might be the smartest animals on the planet. There are probably less 'crow' electrocutions than there are human ones, even with the given that crows spend much of their time with their feet planted on a high energy line.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:58:38 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: Migraine
A small brush fire in Old Concho was started around 1:30 p.m. on April 22 by a crow that was wiresitting on a telephone pole. According to Vernon Fire Chief James Borrego, the crow touched the wire in such a way that the bird caught fire and fell to the ground. I don't see how that could happen unless there was a poor design, or there was something wrong with the wires or pole.
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posted on
04/27/2013 9:00:51 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Migraine
Both crows and stellar jays have swooped down and snatched pancakes off of unattended plates a couple of times over the years on camping trips.
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posted on
04/27/2013 9:05:23 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(1929-1950's, 20+years for full recovery. How long this time?)
To: sakic
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posted on
04/27/2013 9:06:20 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Freeps With Boas)
To: Migraine
DIDN’T YOU HEAR THE FORESTRY COMMERICIALS ?
DIDN’T YOU HEAR SMOKEY THE BEAR TELL THE KID
9 OUT OF 10 FOREST FIRES ARE STARTED BY PEOPLE ....
OUR GOVERNMNET WOULDN’T LET SMOKEY THE BEAR LIE NOW WOULD IT ?
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posted on
04/27/2013 9:07:20 AM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(Serious contribution pause..Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
To: Moonman62
May have straddled the line and a ground line, or landed on a guy wire and then flapped his wings catching the hot wire above.
In Michigan a few years ago a goose for some reason tried to fly between the wires and his wingtips clipped each one, *POOF*.
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posted on
04/27/2013 9:08:13 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Migraine
Did someone throw the crow a ground wire?
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posted on
04/27/2013 9:08:21 AM PDT
by
Figment
To: Migraine
Anybody got any good recipes for fried crow?
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posted on
04/27/2013 9:43:28 AM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
To: Migraine
I read in an old folklore book that crows are attracted to smoke. They use smoke to cleanse their feathers and body from mites and other things. They are even smart enough to have picked up discarded cigarettes or embers that are still burning and carry them to barns to start hay fires, just to make smoke. This is why crows got the reputation of being bad luck. Farmers would always shoot any crows they saw hanging around.
Crows also mate for life and hang together in families, aunts, uncles, cousins. When you see a flock they are all related.
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posted on
04/27/2013 9:58:33 AM PDT
by
Cindy of Nashville
(What has the Democrat party become???)
To: Migraine; TomServo
You know anything about this, Servo?
To: Moonman62
Seen it happen before. Crow in right place, reached and touched ground, BANG.
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posted on
04/27/2013 10:12:31 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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