Bird Carries Lit Cigarette Back To Nest - Burns Down Both Nest And Office Building

[matcom]

<snip>

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A giant bird's nest littered with dozens of cigarette butts is leading investigators to believe that a feathery firebug may have torched a Huntington office building.

Fire Capt. David Bias said a pigeon or another kind of bird may have carried a smoldering cigarette into the Ratcliff Place on Jan. 10. Either that, or the mere volume of decomposing material in the nearly 5-foot-wide nest found in a ceiling may have combusted.

It's just a theory at this point, Bias said, one that he's "taking a good bit of ribbing over."

"People are telling me we should have a pigeon lineup," he said Wednesday.

Actually, fire investigators haven't ruled out anything yet, Bias said. That won't happen until they receive lab results back on evidence sent to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FEATHERY_FIREBUG?SITE=NYPLA&SECTION=SOUTHWEST&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-01-17-17-03-29

[mainegreen]

1. Pitbulls and cigarettes in one day? Well done matcom!

:rofl:

[matcom]

2. i'm desperately looking for an Olive Garden Poisoning story

:P

[underpants]

3. Huntington???

Oh this is getting emailed to the family.

And stop laughing they do too have computers in West Virginia..at least on the good days when the electricity is blowing in the right direction

[matcom]

4. careful

you'll tire out their children who are powering the computer by running on the wheel

:rofl:

[youthere]

5. arsonist pigeons?

[MissMillie]

6. Damnit... never mind the smoking stuff

Can't people keep their trash to themselves??????

[stuntcat]

8. right??

but no, blame the wild animal.. x(

[jilln]

10. No kidding, the smoker should be charged.

[ironflange]

12. Hey, it's not the animal's fault!

It's the way it was brought up!

[Little Wing]

7. Now that's something to think about

:freak:

[Midlodemocrat]

9. See, now if people would just keep their cats outdoors,

things like this wouldn't happen.

[peekaloo]

11. Sanchez!

a 'Scrubs' reference.

He'll be ratted out by some lowly stool pigeon.