Hot squirrel
 

This morning as it was beginning to be daylight I was pulling out to go to the autocross when I saw a huge flash spreading sparks all out from an electric pole up near where the wires attach. I saw something fall and looked around at the ground thinking there must be transformer parts lying about. None...then I saw a charred squirrel lying on the side of the road. I guess he bit the wrong thing.

Amazing it does not happen more often.

How'd it taste?

We're cooking it in the crock. I'll let you know tomorrow.

tree rats blow out substation functions around here about twice a year. enjoy the char !

the power plants Ive been inside all have multiple stories/burn marks somewhere that an animal got in but shouldnt. Its nice to know their death was quick though. every once in a while more in-depth cleanup is needed, which requires an outage and lockout/tagout. that gets annoying quick.

You obviously do not live in my area. Squirrels winging their way to heaven is a daily event, sometimes more than once.

Zillions of pecan and oak trees, even more zillions of squirrels. Even a healthy hawk/eagle/owl population isn't enough to keep their numbers down.

On Guam, every electrical substation fence has traps for brown tree snakes, a non indigenous snake who likes to cause short circuits by slithering into/onto places they shouldn't.

There was a story years ago about a would be copper thief doing the wrong thing at some transfer station and living to tell about it, for about a day IIRC. A witness said he was on fire and was screaming. Wow. I guess that might stimulate a scream all right.

After that it shoulda been already cooked, at least rare.

I think the time in the crock pot is used to tenderize the charred parts...

I wonder what side PETA would take on that practice.

The People for the Eating of Tasty Animals think best to start with a tasty one

But, from your description it sounds as if it’s precooked.:eek::D

He meant re hydrating :D

Not my story. A girl where I worked and her Boyfriend went for a high speed drive out in some remote desert roads.

When they pulled over they found they had killed a Rabbit which was still hanging from the right side of the Car (right of the grill) and the Rabbit had bled out streaming all of the blood 1/2 down the side of the Car.

They got a fire going and cooked and ate the Rabbit.