SKINNED ALIVE !!!!

[eastendlu]

Sorry to read this about your dog Craig and i'm glad to hear she is going to pull thru.

[Raven]

please do me and a friend or neighbor a favor

and tell them what happened to my dog if

you see a metal pipe banged into the ground...

The Vet says this is a VERY common injury

i will be telling people of this horror show for the rest of
my life... trust me on that
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and BTW : i just spoke to a landscaper who was passing out fliers
for tree pruning and similar spring clean up work...

i told him i did my own work but arranged for him to drop off leaves and or grass clippings if it saved him time or money for my compost operation... and he was agreeable to that...

and he told me of a story that happened 5 years ago..
about a guy he heard of that stumbled backwards and fell on one of those grounding stakes made of soild copper i think, Right?

he told me the grounding stake passed right thru the back of his head and then popped out his forehead killing him instantly...

so it's a real serious situation that people
obviously take for granted

which is why i decided to post this story as well..
so keep your eye out
for those dammed things like a HAWK

and thank you kindly for your nice words and sympathy
it goes a long way....to ease a troubled spirit

[fishbones]

Thanks for the warning, Raven. People don't always realize the dangers in and around their own homes. When I moved into my house a few years ago, I noticed a metal stake sticking up about 2 feet out of the ground near my pool. I tried pulling it out, digging it out, etc...... I couldn't budge it. I was worried because it was right next to the cement apron around the pool and I have young neices and nephews and at the time my son was an infant. I was worried that the kids or some of my drunk friends could slip and end up skewering themselves on the stake. I ended up digging a few feet down and cutting it off with a sawzall, then put a metal plate over it and filled in the dirt. I later found out that it was a huge drill bit for drilling through rocks that had been used when they put in the pool. It got stuck and they couldn't get it out. I can't believe the previous owner of the house had left it there for years and risked someone getting hurt.