Just great, Mass Bird Suicide

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-12-12 01:33pm

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.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-12-12 01:43pm

Poor birdies T.T

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2003-12-12 01:53pm

Yum Yum!

Reminds me of:

"Let the fun begin!" cheered the parrot, and jumped into the fan.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-12-12 02:05pm

Didn't that happen in the Core? THE END TIMES ARE HERE!!! ACK!!!

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-12-12 02:56pm

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)

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-12-12 03:07pm

Thats what happene when you build a house in their flightpath.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2003-12-12 03:42pm

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.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-12-12 03:55pm

Oh no, here comes..... the birds o' doom!! Time to release the poison gas!!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-12-12 04:21pm

I find this very amusing.

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-12-12 04:29pm

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.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-12-12 06:11pm

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.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-12-12 07:06pm

I demand pictures.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-12-12 07:09pm

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...

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2003-12-12 07:28pm

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

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-12-12 07:49pm

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.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-12-12 08:02pm

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.

Super-Gagme · Post by **Super-Gagme** » 2003-12-12 08:17pm

hahahaha

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-12-12 08:38pm

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.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-12-12 10:04pm

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.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-12-12 10:08pm

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...

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-12-12 10:25pm

Sounds like a religious cult to me.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-12-12 11:36pm

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......

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-12-12 11:52pm

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.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-12-13 02:10am

Thats what you get for using windex on your windows.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-12-13 02:51am

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