🚀 go-pugleaf

Read your post outloud to the household. Pretty much had to resus em both,
they laughed so hard.

We have four cats here. Pretty much agreed with the BC. LOL

"Thomas D Horne" <hornetd@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:3C4BC1C9.2050505@mindspring.com...
> > Has anyone out there ever taken a cat out of a tree? It came up in a
>  > local newsgroup I read. We don't, and I don't know if we have ever had
>  > the opportunity.
>  >
>  > Dave Scruggs Captain, Boulder Creek Fire Boulder Creek, Calif.
>  >
>
> In one city I worked for as a seasonal relief dispatcher they had a
> rigid policy against the FD doing any kind of animal rescue work.  There
> was a dispute ongoing between the city and the county government about
> who was responsible for such effort within the city limits.  The first
> call came in at 2000 hours complaining about a cat stuck up a tree.  The
> instructions from the city managers office was to refer all such calls
> to the county.  The elderly female caller did not want a referral
> because she new that the county would not send an animal control officer
> until morning.  She demanded that we "get down here right now."  The cat
> was stuck outside her bedroom window and was keeping her awake with it's
> yowling.  I stuck to the script each time she called back for the next
> eight hours but at 0400 my patience failed and I asked if she had ever
> seen the skeleton of a dead cat in a tree.  She became furious and said
> that it did not prove anything.  I replied that what it proved was that
> when the cat got tired enough, hungry enough, or horny enough it would
> come down.  She said I was a rude young man and I replied that I had
> never denied that.  The next call was one half hour later just like the
> previous calls.  As soon as she started in about the cat I asked "is
> that cat on fire?"  She assured me that she would see that my rudeness
> cost me my job.  I replied that after more than sixteen of her calls I
> would be happy to be fired.  0730 comes and I am once again on the phone
> with this women.  The deputy chief comes in and sensing my irritation he
> told me to put her through to his desk.  He was on the phone to her for
> fifteen minutes and the fire chief came in.  The deputy chief said your
> right mam we should take care of it and I will be right there.  He
> walked into the chief's office and asked for two hours of personal
> leave.  He then came up to the desk and pealed off five twenty dollar
> bills.  In the aftermath of proposition thirteen the city manager had
> ordered rental schedules prepared for all city equipment.  The deputy
> chief looked me right in the eye and said "one triple.  One quarter
> hour."  I made out the rental form and watched the deputy walk into the
> apparatus bay.  I told the fire chief that the deputy may have lost it
> and we had better stop him.  We both hopped into the chiefs buggy and
> went off after him.  The engines in this town had both PTO and mid ship
> pumps.  The deputy chief pulled up in front of the home, engaged the
> PTO, and aimed a deck gun with an ancient mystery nozzle on it into the
> tree.  We had stopped a full block away when the fire chief realized
> that he was too late to stop what was going to happen.  In order to
> escape the water the cat leapt to the roof top and when last seen was
> three houses away and still running.  The deputy chief climbed into the
> cab and drove back to the station.  The fire chief said "we were never
> here." and also drove back.  Since I was a seasonal employee I happily
> took the call from the city manager.  If he had fired me I would have
> received unemployment for the entire school semester.  He demanded to
> know who had sprayed the water into the tree.  I told him that the unit
> in question was out on rental.  When he asked to who I reminded him that
> the city solicitor had said that information about citizens could not be
> given out to anyone.  He hung up in my ear.  I do not know if he ever
> learned who had done the dirty deed.
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> Tom
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> Tom
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