I used to work in a building next to some train tracks with overhead wires to power the electric locomotives. It was great fun watching squirrels blow up while they ran along the wires if their tails happened to touch the bridge as they passed under. A lot of squirrels were smart enough to keep their tail low. This fellow was not as sharp.
Hard to believe it's real. Nobody can be that stupid. About squirrels - we lost our power a lot in Alabama from squirrels taking out the power lines. They figure it's safer to cross the streets on the wires versus getting ran over, but either way it's a gamble.
Depands on the squirrel type. Eastern red squirrels bust you out and scold you endlessly when you are deer hunting. I hate them. Grey squirrels mind their own business and they are fun to watch jumping around/chasing each other. Fox squirrels are beautiful! All different color phases and they are enormous. Abert squirrels (In Arizona) are pretty too, with a huge white tail, and they taste good considering they eat a lot of pine cones.
I remember a power failure a few years back in St. Petersburg when some shit heads decided to try to capture some wild parrots that were nesting in a power sub-station. They were going to knock them out with metal rods.
Right here in Augusta a few years back some bone-head chased a rabbit (Bugs Bunny no doubt) into a well marked power sub-station and got fried. I can't remember if he lived, but if he did I hope he learned his lesson. Maybe he was wearing a lucky rabbit's foot.
Probably fake. If TV, the movies, cartoons, etc. have taught us one thing, it's what getting shocked/electrocuted is really like. It happened almost weely on Home Improvement alone!
I could be wrong, but I'm about 99% sure that the lower line (the one with the big tubular object next to the pole) is a phone line. Plus, what Forbin said.
