On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:14:03 +0100, anim8rfsk <
anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> In article <p9j2e5$m0t$
1...@dont-email.me>,
> Rhino <
no_offlin...@example.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-03-28 6:19 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:58:54 +0100, Dimensional Traveler
>> > <
dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 3/28/2018 2:32 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>> >>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:03:35 +0100, Rhino
>> >>> <
no_offlin...@example.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 2018-03-28 4:37 PM, A Friend wrote:
>> >>>>> In article <op.zglqi...@red.lan>, James Wilkinson Sword
>> >>>>> <
imv...@somewear.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:56:34 +0100, anim8rfsk <
anim...@cox.net>
>> >>>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> In article <p9gmih$h6j$
3...@dont-email.me>,
>> >>>>>>> Â Ubiquitous <
web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Gypsy, a black and white cat, had been trapped on top of a power
>> >>>>>>>> pole in Phoenix, Ariz., since Friday when KNXV, an ABC affiliate,
>> >>>>>>>> posted a livestream of her plight Monday morning to Facebook.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> In the hour before a neighbor armed with a ladder rescued Gypsy
>> >>>>>>>> around 11 a.m. local time, half a million people had watched the
>> >>>>>>>> saga and concerned cat-lovers from across the United States had
>> >>>>>>>> flooded 911 dispatchers with more than 100 calls demanding
>> >>>>>>>> authorities save the cat, the Phoenix Fire Department told The
>> >>>>>>>> Arizona Republic. So many people called about Gypsy that the
>> >>>>>>>> dispatching center nearly came to a “screeching halt,†officials
>> >>>>>>>> said.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Capt. Rob McDade told the publication that dispatchers fielded
>> >>>>>>>> calls
>> >>>>>>>> from New Jersey, Ohio and Florida as well as the Phoenix area.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> At one point, someone moderating the KNXV livestream asked viewers
>> >>>>>>>> to stop calling 911 about the cat, according to the Phoenix New
>> >>>>>>>> Times.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> “They appreciate the concern for this cat, but they are kindly
>> >>>>>>>> asking for you to not call 911 in regards to this particular
>> >>>>>>>> situation,†the moderator said. “They are aware of the incident and
>> >>>>>>>> they are doing everything that they can to get this cat down from
>> >>>>>>>> this electricity pole.â€
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> The KNXV livestream on Facebook had 678,000 views, 14,000 likes and
>> >>>>>>>> nearly 10,000 shares – along with 19,600 comments, many suggesting
>> >>>>>>>> possible ways to rescue the cat, though not all were serious.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> “If you flood the city, the water level will be closer to the
>> >>>>>>>> top of
>> >>>>>>>> the (pole),†advised one commenter. Others demanded to know why
>> >>>>>>>> firefighters had not saved the cat.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> “Poor baby. Call the fire department to get him down,†wrote one.
>> >>>>>>>> “OMG... please help the kitty. This is too sad,†posted another.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Phoenix firefighters frequently do respond to calls about rescuing
>> >>>>>>>> animals, but did not respond this time because a utility crew was
>> >>>>>>>> already en route, officials told the Phoenix New Times.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Many livestream comments, however, expressed anger at the TV
>> >>>>>>>> station
>> >>>>>>>> for posting the livestream and at viewers for calling 911.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> “Stop wasting time and money ... I’m sure there is actually
>> >>>>>>>> something important people there could be doing ... this is
>> >>>>>>>> absurd,â€
>> >>>>>>>> wrote one commenter.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> “Hey look a cat stuck up on a pole. We better call the fire
>> >>>>>>>> department to rescue him. Wait I have a better idea, let’s set up a
>> >>>>>>>> live feed of the cat stuck on the pole,†commented another.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> How often do you see the skeleton of a cat stuck in a tree anyway?
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Never, they climb down when they're hungry.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Getting up there is far easier than getting down. In trying to climb
>> >>>>> down, cats often fall and are killed or injured. That's why you don't
>> >>>>> see cat skeletons in trees. Fear of falling is why cats stay on
>> >>> You've just disproved your own point. That the cat would jump if it
>> >>> deemed it necessary. It just wasn't hungry enough. I've found one of
>> >>> my own cats in a shed that it stupidly got trapped in from 3-5 days ago
>> >>> when I went in to put the mower away, and it wasn't malnourished.
>> >>>
>> >> One suspects that mice and such are more easily found in a shed than at
>> >> the top of a pole.
>> >>
>> >> Personally I think Rhino's last sentence is correct. If the cat was
>> >> high enough up that a cherry picker was required, it seems reasonable
>> >> that the cat would be afraid of just jumping down.
>> >
>> > Clearly it wasn't, as it did.
>> >
>> Forgive the grim comparison but I think it is on point. People who were
>> in the Twin Towers on 9/11 faced a choice between burning alive and
>> jumping out of windows; a lot of them jumped. I'm sure NONE of them
>> wanted to jump but it was the lesser of the two evils for them.
>
> Gah. I typed "how many people" into Yahoo Search and it auto propagated
> "jumped from the twin towers" as well as offering me alternatives like
> "on 911" - they're definitely listening to us.
Seriously?! I never get any autofill on Google or my browser unless I've personally searched for that before and typed it in full. Where on earth did it get that information from?
> Search says "200"
>
> Snopes has an article written by Barbara "liar liar pants on fire"
> Mikkelson about it, and, well, it's bullshit. Being willfully ignorant,
> she's never heard of terminal velocity, and says anybody that claims to
> have jumped from very high can't possibly have survived. Lying bitch.
>
> HOWEVER
>
> She says there are people that claim to have jumped and survived. But a
> couple that were together, he says they jumped from 22, and she says
> they jumped from 13, so ...
I can believe a couple jumped together and one landed on the other and survived!
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