Opossum Causes Bar Fire

James Joyner · Monday, June 18, 2007 · 4 Comments

A false positive on a Google News vanity search alert which is nonetheless interesting:

Owner: Opossum may have caused fire that closed Roxanne’s bar (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

A bar on the rise is temporarily out of business after a fire damaged the building Monday, possibly because an opossum chewed on electrical wires, the bar’s owner said.

“I’m upset,” James Joyner, 63, said. “The way it’s all smoked up, it looks like it’s totaled. All I can say is that I can’t tell what kind of liquor there is in there because the bottles are all blackened.”

I hate it when that happens.

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Comments

Ron says:

Monday, June 18, 2007 at 15:16

Out of a desire to help my fellow man, I best get down there and help ID what’s in those bottles!

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thunderbird says:

Monday, June 18, 2007 at 15:48

Hey THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES were right OPOSSUM dose make good eatin just cook it right WELL DONE

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Dodd says:

Monday, June 18, 2007 at 18:26

This is the worst fake I.D. I’ve ever seen. You realize you made yourself sixty-eight.
Oh, I know, I know. I goofed it.
What do you need a fake I.D. for?
So I can vote

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The Florida Masochist says:

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 10:12

Around the Blogosphere…

Some news about other blogs and bloggers.

*- Carren, wife to milblogger Chuck, is asking people to pray for her brother….

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