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Giant Icicles Fall From Sky, Smash Cars
- Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:01am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Employees at WJTV in Jackson, MS got quite the surprise when they realized that giant icicles were falling from the sky and onto the station’s parking lot. Video shows the employees dodging the giant blocks of ice while trying to move their cars. The culprit? The station’s broadcast tower:
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Comments (113)
Liberty7
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:57amLet’s see. People risk being impaled by falling ice spears or hit by blocks of ice to save an inanimate object, their cars, from some damage. Not very smart in my book.
Report Post »tvr54
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:13pmWhy would you risk your life for a car, makes no sense to me, It’s like the people that will kill them self to avoid a dog or cat. The ice is falling at speeds of 80 to 120 mph, O i forgot the nation is a little short on common sense these days.
Report Post »ProudTeaPartyMember
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:42amAnother sign of Global Warming, or Global Climate Change… depends on what they’re calling it today. If it wasn’t for warming, the icicles wouldn’t begin to melt and then fall.
See … simple… 2 + 2 = 5 (Liberal feel good math)
joan k
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:40amWhy would anyone in their right mind try to protect a car or truck that is insured when they could lose their life if hit with one of those icicles. They were deadly!
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:35amThis needs to be addressed immediately in Congress. Some one needs to introduce the Ice Control Bill making it illegal for people to allow ice to from on their homes, cars, trees, and bushes. An Ice Czar needs to be appointed and in charge of purchasing and supervising spreading of “green” salt on all surfaces that may accumulate ice, thus helping to create new “green” jobs.
Report Post »Wornout
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:35amHow stupid can people be?! Do they have a death wish?
Report Post »Just A Private
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:30amIt does seem dangerous…so dangerous that anybody with their head screwed on straight would stay inside and let the vehicles fend for themselves….
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:53amYeah, under a desk.. that shack of a building wouldn’t offer much protection from a 50 lb. ice spear falling straight down from 300 ft.
Report Post »cycloid
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:29amWith those stupid PC windmills springing up everywhere, we can expect lots more of such ice-dagger incidents. Damage to property and human life is inevitable. Oh the violence! There oughtta be a law!
Report Post »MadeInAmerica
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 5:12pmMy small, rural Iowa town of 900 is SURROUNDED by 108 wind turbines. Imagine the potential carnage! Now I’m afraid to go outside.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:28amThe democrats will draw up legislation to ban icicles.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:28amWhy the hatred toward icicles?
Report Post »Grady Curve
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:59amyea your a racist hater against all Clear things…like water and ice and white folks…
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:26amQuick tell Democrats there that free ice is falling from the sky.
Report Post »Bearfoot1
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:35amDon’t do that, they will want to tax it!
Report Post »48
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:20amBan all icicles.
Report Post »sing it out
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:18amI had a nightmare like that once…
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:17amAmusing. Glad no one was hurt.
Report Post »droford
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:14amThey were probably really out shooting with their brand new Red Ryder BB Guns they got for Christmas.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:39amZing!
Report Post »SND97
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:12amIts George Bushes Fault.
Report Post »Damn that Global Warming!
Sarah Palin’s shooting ice from Alaska?
Oden Pissed at Thor again?
The Far Right creating violence by talking?
The Myan Calendar ending?
250superduty
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:12amAwesome!!!
Report Post »chuck_wagon
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:11amI’ve worked in broadcast my whole working life and have see spears of ice 10 feet long come off our tower and stick a couple feet into the ground on impact. It’s a very dangerous situation.
Report Post »mimitweetin
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:11amThey are falling off that tower. One would expect that once the ice starts melting. I have 100 ft trees in my yard you should be there when the ice is so heavy it breaks 4″ and bigger branches like they are toothpicks.
Report Post »KUjayhawk
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:10amDo you think Sarah Palin inspired these icicles to start targeting these vehicles… rofl
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:08amBoy, that would sting just a bit if one hit you!
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:08amWe’d better outlaw those icicles and the broadcast tower as well.
Report Post »NE Cowboy
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:47amYes, we must pass a NEW LAW to protect us!!!!!
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:07amIts Sarah Palins fault
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:13amNo, it’ll be Bush.
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:26amYou all got it wrong…Al Gore told us about this Global Warming thingy and here is proof…..ice melts when heated. What more proof do you need? Maybe a couple more inches of snow will point. As of last night 49 of the 57 states had snow on the ground!
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:41amRush and Beck are at it again!
Report Post »GrannyATL
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:59amPavnet said: ” As of last night 49 of the 57 states had snow on the ground!”
ROFLMAO!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:19pmpavnvet
Report Post »Not global warming, Global climate change!! Explains how the planet is dying because winter is cold and summer is hot. Time for a prius in every pot!
912828Buckeye
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:20pmI’ll say Rush. Listening to him now.
Report Post »USAPLISKENXI
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:47amLOL All you guys are funny thanks for the laugh this morning needed that.
Report Post »BeckIsNuts
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:06amNot God?
akelso
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:17amNo, frozen water.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:51pmho did the water get frozen? god!
Report Post »jbl8199
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:50pmIt was Bushes fault.
Report Post »SecretPolice
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:05amChicken Little……lol
Man, that looks very dangerous indeed.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 2:50pmAm I the only one who thought that was kinda freakin COOL?
Report Post »Sam I am
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 3:29pmI was once near a tower when a worker dropped a wrench from the top.
Report Post »The wrench bounced 50′ in the air. It would have killed someone, for sure.
bry
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:02amI guess those icicles belong to the Tea Party.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:11amWhere are the Dems to help us?
Please write the Democrats in office to please draw up a bill that will ban all broadcast towers in winter because falling icicles could hurt innocent civilians.
The safety of the American people comes first!
Report Post »myfamily04
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:11amIt must be those darn conservatives…You Tea Party commies; stop throwing icicles or were you using that machine that shoots (oh no did I say shoot and Tea Party in the same sentence) them 1000′ into the air. We are guilty I guess.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:20amyou are pretty angry eh?
Report Post »JESUS-IS-LORD
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:29amI Love God!
Report Post »This is just but a small example of what he’s really going to do to this planet.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:34amAnd now we know why birds are falling dead from the sky. They’re being nailed by falling icicles, which melt down on the ground, leaving us scratching our head!
Report Post »NE Cowboy
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:46amOk, WE HAVE TO PASS A NEW LAW to make Icicles illegal!!! We MUST ban them, they are just too dangerous!!!!!!!
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:49amReason for the progs to socialize tv/radio?
Report Post »RightWrite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:55amThose a God’s tears, frozen from the cold truth of how Progressives are trying to abolish his unalienable rights.
Report Post »Mikeyyy
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:00pmHaha, good 1 Bry.
Report Post »bry
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:03pmTime for Obama to appoint an Icicle Czar!!!
Report Post »River0
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:26pmWe need more federal regulation!
Report Post »KarateDad
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:56pmI bet they would have been happy to have Sarah Palin there with her shotgun to shoot them out of the sky for them.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:19pmYea I‘ll run under a bunch of ice spears so my car won’t get scrached. Silly people.
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:24pmSEE TALK RADIO!!!!!
Radio tower… see the connection!!!!
they are killing the birds and it is all Sarah Palins fault..
I think I heard a blogger say that Glenn Beck on his show said they came up with an ice making machine to use in killing all the birds and cars too!!
See its a conspiracy!!!
http://www.mentordvd.com
Report Post »formersocialistwhiner
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:35pmThoses are the ICED tea party’s icecicles
Report Post »microace
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:44pmOutlawing Icicles doesn’t go far enough, we’ll have to outlaw radio towers or anything in the air that icicles could fall from. Oh no, I just thought about hail stones…we’ll have to do something about those too.
Report Post »Rubicon
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:59pmGood one! I suspect every breaking news story that‘s either a tragedy or negative will be the Tea Party’s fault. Unbelievable.
One a side note, wht would anyone risk their lives to save a car? That’s what insurance is for. I am left dumbfounded when I see people doing such reckless acts. If someone got hurt they would most likely blame global warming, oh sorry it’s called “climate change” now. I was raised to believe we always had climate change, it’s called winter, spring, summer, and fall.
Report Post »GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 2:43pmBush’s fault.
Report Post »Sam I am
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 3:27pmDamn, I thought we solved the dead bird mystery.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 3:39pmI could see a husband explaining to his wife on the phone “Honey, this giant icicle fell on your mothers car she let me borrow…”
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:52amDid you hear the new bill just introduced by Democrats?
There shall be no towers with icicles allowed within 1000 feet of a federal official.
Report Post »IWISHFORABETTERAMERIKA
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:22amSarah Palin did it!
Report Post »1Patriotgal
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 10:53amWhat total idiots- getting hit by one of those, might be fatal. They think the cosmetics of their CARS, is more important than their lives??? Oh, they DIDN’T THINK, I understand now.
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