Weird news: Suicide squirrel starts 30-acre fire

[totalmotorcycle]

Suicide squirrel starts 30-acre fire
Tuesday, September 5, 2006

A squirrel: 'look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair'A fire spread over thirty acres in East Texas, damaging eleven cars, a motorcycle and a house in the process, while volunteer firefighters struggled to control the blaze.

And the cause of the conflagration?

A squirrel.

Texan news station KLTV reports that the fire was started by a squirrel walking along a power line. As regular readers will be able to guess, the suicide squirrel's next move was to jump into a transformer.

This caused the squirrel to catch fire. The squirrel, once ablaze, promptly fell off the transformer, where the dry conditions helped the fire to spread.

Keith Newburn , Chief of the Bullard Volunteer Fire Department, wisely noted: 'This time of year, with conditions as dry as they are, it's not really that rare. I've fought several fires in the past that were started by squirrels that got in to transformers.'

[CNF2002]

So was the squirrel okay?

[totalmotorcycle]

So was the squirrel okay?

BBQ Squirrel
By Todd Smith


~ 4 squirrels, quartered
~ 3 tbsp salt
~ 2 tsp pepper
~ 1 tsp garlic powder
~ 1 tsp onion powder
~ your favorite dry rub
~ 15 charcoal briquets
~ 3 handfuls hickory chips
~ your favorite bbq sauce


In a large pot, boil the squirrel in water seasoned with the salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder for 1 hour or until tender.

In the meantime, soak the hickory chips in water. Light the charcoal and let them get white hot. Place them to one side of your grill.

Remove the squirrel from the water and pat dry. Coat with your favorite dry rub.

Add one handful of wood chips to the hot coals.

Place squirrel on grill across from the hot coals. Cover and smoke for 1 hour. Add a handful of wood chips every half hour.

Add last of the wood chips and baste squirrel with bbq sauce. Smoke for another half hour basting another 3 - 4 times.

Serve with mashed potatoes, sweet corn and buttermilk bisquits.

Enjoy!

[CNF2002]

Hmm...I think maybe this particular squirrel would have been better suited for a blackened squirrel recipe...perhaps cajin

[BuzZz]

Back in the day, it was fairly popular to pour gas down gopher holes to flush 'em out and kill them. Of course, you know a fair percentage of those gophers were lit-up for redneck entertainment value. And flaming gopher tearing across the pasture at mach III spread a grassfire much faster than a good wind ever could.... greened-up the forage nicely in a few weeks. 2 birds with one stone... or one match ... or whatever....

[Nibblet99]

Back in the day, it was fairly popular to pour gas down gopher holes to flush 'em out and kill them. Of course, you know a fair percentage of those gophers were lit-up for redneck entertainment value. And flaming gopher tearing across the pasture at mach III spread a grassfire much faster than a good wind ever could.... greened-up the forage nicely in a few weeks. 2 birds with one stone... or one match ... or whatever....

Very cruel, completely heartless, and yet I can't stop laughing my "O Ring" off. Guess I'm just not cut out to be politically correct

[Kal]

Back in the day, it was fairly popular to pour gas down gopher holes to flush 'em out and kill them. Of course, you know a fair percentage of those gophers were lit-up for redneck entertainment value. And flaming gopher tearing across the pasture at mach III spread a grassfire much faster than a good wind ever could.... greened-up the forage nicely in a few weeks. 2 birds with one stone... or one match ... or whatever....

Buzz were you depraved as a child???

[BuzZz]

In all seriousness, that was general practice for most all farmers, not me. I wouldn't waste the gas (that was for my bike). I would, and still do, just shoot the little buggers. Much more satisfying to turn them inside out with hollow pionts....

[CNF2002]

I feed the squirrels in my backyard. They are cute.