What is it? It was a squirrel with a death wish, it got it's wish. Carrie and I had just came into the sun room when a massive light show and explosive sound rumbled from across the street. As we both jumped, shouted and swore we were witness to one of the most confusing scenes I've ever witnessed.

A flaming & sparking power line was laying across the street and three cars, one of which was occupied. The driver of the occupied car was getting out (how he avoided electrocution I will never know) and yelling at the guy behind him about throwing fireworks. Carrie was yelling at him to watch out for the power line and that his car was rolling away. I in the mean time was looking for a phone that would work being that our cordless phone is useless without power, which had went out with the life of the squirrel.

The car rolling away pulled the burning power lines down, the driver recovered his car and disappeared before authorities arrived ( Must have been late for one hell of an appointment). The emergency squad ambled their way the three blocks to our location, took one look and disappeared leaving the smoldering power lines in the street? A brief block party of a hundred or so of our neighbors who emerged from their apartment buildings followed. Flowers for the squirrel where provided by the management company.

One squirrel with a death wish, doing a high wire act blew a transformer cutting the power for a six block radius leaving 2,000 people in the dark. The squirrel had a quick funeral, being entombed in a nearby garbage dumpster.