Allentown Firefighters Rescue Escaped Iguana From Tree
So your cat went up in a tree? Leave it there. I mean, it’s a cat, it’s going to come down, right?
Wait, you’re going to call the FIRE DEPARTMENT to get your cat down? What if some serious fire happens on the other side of town with a kid in a wheelchair is trapped in a four story building with no staircases?
Oh, you just want Jax the cat back, eh? I guess I can see your reasoning.
Wait, it’s a freakin’ iguana? Seriously?
Allentown firefighters Tuesday afternoon safely caught a pet iguana that had slipped out of its owner’s third-floor apartment and jumped from a balcony into a tree.
The Allentown 911 Communications Center asked if the Fire Department might snag the escaped lizard at the 11 N. Ninth St. apartment house at 5:50 p.m., fire Capt. Joseph Donmoyer said.
“When Com Center called, I thought they were joking,” he said. “It’s usually a cat.”
Bringing down the 2-foot-long iguana was easy, but its natural camouflage made it difficult to find in the tree, Donmoyer said.
“We were looking and looking and looking,” he said. “He was almost the exact color of the leaves. But then we saw the tail.” Donmoyer climbed up a 24-foot ladder and made the capture.
“When I got up there, he was busy eating leaves,” he said. “I bent the branch down and grabbed his tail up by his rear legs. I didn’t want the tail to break off. Then I brought him down and put him in a box.”
“It was just one of those fun calls.”
Donmoyer said the iguana’s owner was not home when it escaped its screen-covered terrarium and jumped 5 feet from the balcony handrail to the tree. A neighbor noticed the escape and made the 911 call. Source
A NEIGHBOR called 911?
Woah, wait. So, an Allentown resident living on Ninth Street called 911 for his NEIGHBOR because his neighbor’s iguana escaped?
This happened? I’m kinda shocked. OK, now it doesn’t seem so bad anymore.
Awww, Allentown, where love happens.
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One thing I think we forget sometimes is how close many people are to being homeless. Honestly, if there wasn’t an unemployment compensation system in this nation there would be many people going “Holy crap I literally have no money to stay somewhere.”
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I never really had much interaction with the police when I was a kid.. kid. Like 7 to 11 years old. That’s probably because I grew up in a community where people kinda dealt with problems with local kids on their own. If you screwed with old lady McGrady’s flower garden, she was coming over to your house to yell at your parents then beat you with her cane.
I love when someone is so impatient that they NEED to get JUST in front of YOU so that they can be ONE car length ahead of you in traffic.
File this under: Scary as shit.
And by “smile” I mean “vomit.”
Nooo It’s not Ed Palowski!
I kinda did nothing great this weekend. Which, in a way is a testament to how borin… oh oh wait, I forgot that last night I went to a friend’s house in Allentown and drank all this Sangria and then ended up singing Robert Palmer on Wii karaoke followed by some sort of Charlie Manson powwow reenactment in the backyard with me and four grown women.
Whenever I see a nice car, like a Jaguar or a BMW or a Mercedes broken down or otherwise experiencing problems, I don’t care. It just washes over me like nothing. A big wave of nothing.
There should be some sense of security when you’re at home, chillaxing, maxing and looking all cool that you’re not going to be randomly shot in the leg through the ceiling. But, if you live in Allentown, do you really expect anything less?
I won’t post anyone’s Facebook pages from this. The funny thing is, as hated as this blog may be to some “real” news endeavors, they will make it a point to find information on people who are recently murdered, knowing full well that their families will be able to read this.. however, if you’re to post some punk’s Facebook Profile because they are drinking underage you’re a bad person.