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Just great, Mass Bird Suicide
Posted: 2003-12-12 01:33pm
by aerius
About 15 minutes ago I had an entire flock of birds fly into the large front window on our home. All I heard was a huge "crash!" and my first thought was some punkass kid had egged our house, and then I looked at the window to see that whole bunch of birds had flown into it. Goddamn, there's about 20 dead birds lying in the flowerbed below our front window, and there's blood and bird crap on the window. From what I put together a flock of maybe 50-100 birds were flying in tight formation right at our window, and after the leading birds hit and dropped dead the rest managed to swerve away in time. What a mess, good thing it's cold so the bird corpses will freeze up nicely, otherwise disposing of them would be quite messy. Now I get bird blood and guts off the front window, oh fucking joy.
Posted: 2003-12-12 01:43pm
by Hamel
Poor birdies T.T
Posted: 2003-12-12 01:53pm
by Tribun
Yum Yum!
Reminds me of:
"Let the fun begin!" cheered the parrot, and jumped into the fan.
Posted: 2003-12-12 02:05pm
by Chardok
Didn't that happen in the Core? THE END TIMES ARE HERE!!! ACK!!!
Posted: 2003-12-12 02:56pm
by LadyTevar
A 20lb turkey flew out of the woods about 100 yards from the Capitol Complex and hit one of the buildings there. It was retrieved by workers in the building, checked over to make sure there was nothing wrong but a broken neck, and then taken home.
A couple days later, that office had a turkey dinner with all the fixin's. (It took a day for all the workers to decide who would make what)
Posted: 2003-12-12 03:07pm
by Montcalm
Thats what happene when you build a house in their flightpath.
Posted: 2003-12-12 03:42pm
by General Zod
i remember something similar happening to me once. except it involved a massive nasty swarm of bees while i was riding in my grandfather's truck. in the city too, oddly enough. lots of bug stains on the windshield afterwards.
Posted: 2003-12-12 03:55pm
by Peregrin Toker
Oh no, here comes..... the birds o' doom!! Time to release the poison gas!!
Posted: 2003-12-12 04:21pm
by Sea Skimmer
I find this very amusing.
Posted: 2003-12-12 04:29pm
by Kintaro
Sea Skimmer wrote:I find this very amusing.
Ditto. My friend has the same problem every once in while. There is also a large window at my house, but there are never any bird deaths, just this stupid-ass bird trying to peck its way in.
Posted: 2003-12-12 06:11pm
by aerius
Clean up was...not fun, the window's been scrubbed clean but the bird corpses will have to freeze solid overnight before I pack them up and toss them. Thank god it's well below freezing here. I'm almost tempted to save a few in ziplock bags and plant them in my friend's freezers as a gag.
Posted: 2003-12-12 07:06pm
by Darth Fanboy
I demand pictures.
Posted: 2003-12-12 07:09pm
by Crayz9000
aerius wrote:I'm almost tempted to save a few in ziplock bags and plant them in my friend's freezers as a gag.
Save a few in ziplock bags and freeze them anyway. They're always useful in the event that you want to get revenge on
someone...
Posted: 2003-12-12 07:28pm
by Solauren
aerius wrote:Clean up was...not fun, the window's been scrubbed clean but the bird corpses will have to freeze solid overnight before I pack them up and toss them. Thank god it's well below freezing here. I'm almost tempted to save a few in ziplock bags and plant them in my friend's freezers as a gag.
To avoid bird problems in the future, put up one of those fake bird cut outs.
Either that, or keep bags handy and auction themoff on Ebay
Posted: 2003-12-12 07:49pm
by aerius
Crayz9000 wrote:Save a few in ziplock bags and freeze them anyway. They're always useful in the event that you want to get revenge on someone...
Do you think my GF will hurt me if I present her with a dead frozen birdie in a ziplock bag?
Solauren wrote:To avoid bird problems in the future, put up one of those fake bird cut outs.
Either that, or keep bags handy and auction themoff on Ebay
I am not sending dead birdies through the mail, that'll get my name put on the list and I'll get a visit from the cops. I've worked at Customs and I know they don't have a sense of humour when it comes to finding dead animals in the mail.
Posted: 2003-12-12 08:02pm
by Hethrir
We use to have a big palm of some sort outside of our house, and the birds used to eat the off fruit, get drunk and fly into the window. Most amusing. KO birds on the ground. They would get up again though.
Posted: 2003-12-12 08:17pm
by Super-Gagme
hahahaha
Posted: 2003-12-12 08:38pm
by Superman
Oh jeez... Try working in a funeral home. Try cleaning maggots out of a gaping wound on some corpses head while blood gets all over your clothing. Try embalming a guy who killed himself by chopping off his own legs with an axe! Try... you get the idea.
Posted: 2003-12-12 10:04pm
by Andrew J.
Do you have pets? Grind up the birds and put 'em in their food dishes, you might be able to get rid of them and save money on pet food at the same time.
Posted: 2003-12-12 10:08pm
by darthdavid
Andrew J. wrote:Do you have pets? Grind up the birds and put 'em in their food dishes, you might be able to get rid of them and save money on pet food at the same time.
And give your pet more horrible deseases than you can count...
Posted: 2003-12-12 10:25pm
by Zaia
Sounds like a religious cult to me.
Posted: 2003-12-12 11:36pm
by aerius
Andrew J. wrote:Do you have pets? Grind up the birds and put 'em in their food dishes, you might be able to get rid of them and save money on pet food at the same time.
Nope, I don't have pets. On the other hand I have eaten quails and pigeon before so maybe I should go find out what kind of birds these are and make a meal out of them for myself...I wonder how they'll taste like...hmmm......
Posted: 2003-12-12 11:52pm
by TrailerParkJawa
One time during a little work party a pidgeon flew into one of the windows. There was a perfect imprint of the birds body and wings on the dusty windows.
But the bird broke its neck and got tossed in the garbage.
Posted: 2003-12-13 02:10am
by Vertigo1
Thats what you get for using windex on your windows.
Posted: 2003-12-13 02:51am
by Crayz9000
Vertigo1 wrote:Thats what you get for using windex on your windows.
You're right, it's best for soaking your elbows in. You can also use it to replace any fluid in your car