Crime & Safety
Nashville Fire Department Spends Election Day Saving A Cat Named Thomas Jefferson
Firefighters can't retrieve a parrot, but they do save America's third president (sort of).
NASHVILLE, TN — Exhibiting patriotism above and beyond the call of duty, Nashville firefighters saved Thomas Jefferson on Election Day.
Well...sort of.
Thomas Jefferson in this case is not America's third president, but instead a now-very-wet cat who fell into a drainpipe in East Nashville. The rescue of the presidential feline came on the heels of an attempted, but ultimately unsuccessful, retrieval of a parrot who flew too high for even the ladder trucks to save him.
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This particular parrot could perhaps become Nashville's second-most famous parrot, after Andrew Jackson's extraordinarily profane pet.
Here's the tale of NFD's interesting Election Day via Twitter:
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Need something lighter on election day? We're headed to 4200 block of Blackwater Dr. for a parrot who got out of his cage and is in a tree.
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
Sadly, looks like the parrot was too high in the tree for us to get. We're confident he'll come down soon. #WeBelieveInYouElectionDayParrot
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
UPDATE: Now we have cat stuck in a drainpipe at 3823 Gallatin Pike. Election Day Parrot will have to take a backseat. #FreeTheDrainpipeKitty
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
#DRAINPIPEKITTY is free!!! pic.twitter.com/ESEQxOO5nl
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
He climbed into the third-world rain gutter, fell three stories and got stuck here pic.twitter.com/RvCRCLHcWQ
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
Cat’s name: Thomas Jefferson. Not joking. Owner is J. Kline, president of Watkins College. First words to his cat: “What were you thinking?”
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
Happy #DRAINPIPEKITTY reunion. pic.twitter.com/FQSdMlKxrS
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
By the way, that was a third-story gutter. Autocorrect got me good.
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
A neighbor tells me #DRAINPIPEKITTY may have been there since 6 am, but he didn’t realize he was stuck until he heard him later.
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) November 8, 2016
Image via Nashville Fire Department
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