He was just trying to help
Giancarlo was visiting a lady friend in a San Francisco apartment. The second-floor tenant told fire investigators she had adopted a puppy in Modesto, and after she brought it home, noticed it had a tick. Giancarlo said he knew how to get rid of them. Giancarlo told investigators he found many ticks on the dog’s stomach, and that he had experience using heat to get rid of ticks. Giancarlo pulled out his lighter and began trying to burn the fleas while they were biting the dog. Whether he used so lighter fluid to speed up the process or whether the dog had a lot “product” in his fur the dog literally caught on fire. The dog combusted as if something flammable had been applied to it, ran over to the couch, where the tenant tried to grab it, the report said. Her clothing and the sofa both caught fire, and the sofa set the curtains ablaze, the report said. The woman fled the apartment with her puppy in her arms, pulling fire alarms on her way out of the building through heavy smoke, the report said. Residents of a five-story, 114-unit apartment building in San Francisco were fleeing for their lives down a fire escape amid a blaze that sent two people to the hospital.
At the time of the fire, the apartment building was 90% occupied, according to the report. The two people taken to hospitals had minor injuries, the report said. The blaze spread up into the unit above the apartment where it started, and caused a total of about $300,000 in damage, with another $100,000 in lost property, the report said. Fire officials deemed the blaze accidental, and no arrests were made, the report said. A lawsuit was filed by displaced tenants upstairs claiming the subsequent blaze sent two people to the hospital, displaced 10 residents, and caused an estimated lots of damage. The suing couple states that the fire would have never happened if the building had enforced its no-pet policy.
The dog, whose age and breed were not disclosed in the report, received burns to its ears, chest and neck, the tenant told investigators. The animal survived after emergency surgery and amputation of both ears, the report said. The American Veterinary Medical Association warns that using heat to try to remove a tick from a pet can cause the parasite to inject saliva into the animal, boosting the chance of transmitting a tick-borne disease. Instead, tweezers should be deployed, to grip the tick as closely as possible to the pet’s skin.
Flea-ing Humor
What did the flea on the right leg of Robinson Crusoe say to the flea on the left leg of Crusoe?
‘Bye for now, see you on Friday.’
How do fleas travel?
They itch hike.
How do you build a flea circus?
You have to start from scratch.
What happened when the dog went to the flea circus?
He stole the show!
May 28th Birthdays
1944 – Gladys Knight, 1988 – Jessica Rothe, 1984 – Beth Allen, 1996 – Cary Mulligan
1995 – Lucas Gage, 1908 – Ian Fleming, 1972 – Marco Rubio, 1986 – Michael Oher