« on: July 26, 2007, 08:00:51 PM »
http://www.thelocal.se/8001/20070726/Crow blamed for crop blaze
Published: 26th July 2007 08:41 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/8001/
In a turn of events that sounds like it was the product of a comedy animator's imagination, a crow managed to set fire to a field outside Enköping.
First, the crow flew into an electricity cable. Then, after a nasty electric shock the bird burst into flames, burning to death.
Still ablaze, the dead crow dropped to earth, landing in a pile of hay in the field in Österunda, outside Enköping , 80km west of Stockholm.
The hay quickly caught fire and the blaze spread to the whole field before four fire engines arrived to put a stop to the infernal farce.
"I've never seen anything like this before," said fire officer Per Gustafsson to local newspaper Enköpings-Posten.
Nobody was injured in the blaze, which destroyed around 250 square metres of crops.
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