DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- Firefighters had to rescue a pelican that was dangling from a tree about 50 feet in the air Thursday.
The pelican was hanging upside down by its wing from some monofilament line in an Australian pine tree near the Dania Beach pier.
Beachgoer Sharon Schultz spotted the pelican Thursday morning.
"At first I thought he was dead, and I came and looked closer and he was struggling," Schultz said.
Schultz said she went to the pier for help and was told the bird had been hanging there since Tuesday. She was also told that a wildlife group had already come, but she was incensed by what she perceived to be a lack of sympathy for the animal.
"They said it was dead," Schultz said. "They weren't going to do nothing about it, so I called (Local) 10. I didn't know what else to do, and now everybody's here to get the bird out of the tree. That's all I wanted."
Hollywood firefighters used a ladder truck to rescue the bird. They snipped the wire and brought it down safely.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.local10.com/2008/0501/16107543.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
not so funny now, is it fuckers?
― n/a, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
dangling pelican vs dangling Reverend
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
poor poor pelican
― cutty, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
They could have leaned a little harder on the "psychos think it's cool to leave dead birds hanging from trees for days" angle.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
rolling marine critters in distress thread:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003189_pf.html
White house to endangered whales - eat it, suckers!
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
More like pelican't, amirite?
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that's not the title if I wanted to hear about the fucking white house I wouldn't be looking at cnn.com now would I
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:04 PM (Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:04 PM) Bookmark Link
um, what?
― gabbneb, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
reverend wright
― cutty, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
he's lettin it hang out.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Kelly Tilghman?
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
meanwhile, US dockworkers have shut down one of the busiest port systems in the world in protest of the iraq war and cnn's got nuthin
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ports2-2008may02,0,474763.story
― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
estimated cost of west coast ports closing for one day: $1 billion
― Edward III, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
CNN.com Headline:
14th-century shipwreck laden with treasure found
* Story Highlights * Geologists on a search for diamonds off Namibia stumble on a shipwreck * Ship loaded with gold coins, elephant tusks, copper and cannons * Ship dates to late 1400s- early 1500s, heyday of de Gama and Columbus * Archaelogist speculates: Was captain on official business, or was he a pirate?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/01/Namibia.shipwreck.ap/index.html
Point to one thing wrong with that and you're smarter than the unpaid intern they replaced the full-time copy editor with.
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 1 May 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― deej, Thursday, 1 May 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahahah
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
They fixed it (perhaps that intern lurks on ILE).
― o. nate, Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Video report on out of control binge drinking rising among women - alarm! Commercial leading into video - Miller LIte party time! Not joking.
― Super Cub, Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Let's see if you get the same:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/05/01/newton.uk.drowning.controversy.cnn
― Super Cub, Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/05/01/tv.walters.affair.ap/index.html
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
wau
― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
current headline:
Police: Mom found 'D.C. Madam' hanged herself
― abanana, Thursday, 1 May 2008 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
okay waht
― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sure there was absolutely NO foul play involved in that one!
― Nhex, Thursday, 1 May 2008 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
'D.C. Madam' found dead
Let the speculation fly!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
headline still up, still totally ungrammatical
― abanana, Thursday, 1 May 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
CNN's also selling t-shirts of their headlines now.
― milo z, Friday, 2 May 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/allshirts/index.html
― milo z, Friday, 2 May 2008 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
holy shit
― deeznuts, Friday, 2 May 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Ducks Get Police Escort Across 4 Lanes
― Abbott, Friday, 2 May 2008 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
What happened to the incest dad!?!?!
― David R., Friday, 2 May 2008 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Incest Dad Gets Police Escort Into 4 Lanes
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 May 2008 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Incest Ducks Gets Police Escort Into 4 Lanes
― latebloomer, Friday, 2 May 2008 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link
"Shocking Ad Shows Real Waterboarding" lol
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 2 May 2008 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm gonna buy shirts for every headline that appears every day for a week
― akm, Friday, 2 May 2008 06:26 (fifteen years ago) link
no i'm not
Incest dad stuck in a tree in Austria
― StanM, Friday, 2 May 2008 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
k-i-s-s-i-n--------- oh i'm going to hell.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 2 May 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Say hi to incest dad when you get there!
― David R., Friday, 2 May 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
here's the other irritating thing about cnn.com lately: why the fuck are so many news stories video only? I know cnn is a tv network, but most of these things have AP or reuters written news stories; please put those up as well. I'd rather not sit here at watch TV at work.
― akm, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Teens texting, 'sexting' on cell phones
― abanana, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
yea, I'd like to see the video as an embed like right justified inside the text story
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i32.tinypic.com/w8amif.png
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 May 2008 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
also not clear if 3rd headline refers to first headline or second
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 May 2008 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
why no t-shirt for the dead thrown into rivers?
― akm, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
aren't the last two just sub-headlines for the first?
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shit
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 May 2008 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link