Arkansas: 3,000 birds drop dead on New Year's Eve

Fausto · January 03, 2011, 05:21:18 PM

http://start.toshiba.com/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9KH0NU01%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1011

A bad omen?

Umaril The Unfeathered · January 03, 2011, 05:27:23 PM

I was watching the news this morning and I was totally blown away by this.

What the hell's going on? Do we want to know?!? This story is TOO strange.

LilCerberus · January 03, 2011, 06:50:06 PM

Maybe somebody took my advice...

Raffine · January 03, 2011, 07:12:19 PM

A day later they discovered around 100,000 dead fish in nearby Ozark, AK.

Something is truly amiss in Arkansas. Maybe it the revenge of the Boggy Creek Fouke Monster.

RCMerchant · January 03, 2011, 07:45:27 PM

Actually,Charles Fort had been reporting this kind of stuff back in the 1920's! Birds,fish,frogs,rocks,nuts,flesh...all sortsa weird stuff.

indianasmith · January 03, 2011, 09:44:57 PM

I suspect fowl play . . . or maybe a poultrygeist!

Umaril The Unfeathered · January 04, 2011, 02:23:56 AM

Quote from: indianasmith on January 03, 2011, 09:44:57 PM
I suspect fowl play . . . or maybe a poultrygeist!

Actually, a follow-up on the news stations (a press conference with local authorities) revealed that it may, MAY have been a state of panic the birds went into after hearing all the fireworks going off over the holiday weekend, causing them to fly into things.

Some of them looked like their necks were broken, (twisted all the way to one side) which would indicate some sort of impact. But, whatever it was, this is definitely one strange way to start the New Year..

Raffine · January 04, 2011, 07:40:00 AM

Quote from: RCMerchant on January 03, 2011, 07:45:27 PM
Actually,Charles Fort had been reporting this kind of stuff back in the 1920's! Birds,fish,frogs,rocks,nuts,flesh...all sortsa weird stuff.

I love Charles Fort's books! He not only reports on all sorts of strange and unexplained phenomena but he had a delighfully bizarre writing style.

That we've been damned by giants sound asleep, or by great scientific principles and abstractions that cannot realize themselves: that little harlots have visited their caprices upon us; that clowns, with buckets of water from which they pretend to cast thousands of good-sized fishes have anathematized us for laughing disrespectfully, because, as with all clowns, underlying buffoonery is the desire to be taken seriously; that pale ignorances, presiding over microscopes by which they cannot distinguish flesh from nostoc or fishes' spawn, have visited upon us their wan solemnities. We've been damned by corpses and skeletons and mummies, which twitch and totter with pseudo-life derived from conveniences.

What the heck it means; I dunno. But its a great read!

Jack · January 04, 2011, 07:47:23 AM

Maybe some kid just got a new .22 and was doing some practicing with it?

Mr. DS · January 04, 2011, 08:48:06 AM

This story really ruffles my feathers.

Umaril The Unfeathered · January 05, 2011, 03:32:06 AM

Quote from: Jack on January 04, 2011, 07:47:23 AM
Maybe some kid just got a new .22 and was doing some practicing with it?

Or perhaps a new chemical agent that was being tested.... either that or Trevor must've taken his undies off and left them in the field again.

Trevor · January 05, 2011, 04:02:38 AM

Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 05, 2011, 03:32:06 AM
Trevor must've taken his undies off and left them in the field again.

Whoops: I be so busted.

Umaril The Unfeathered · January 05, 2011, 04:09:46 AM

Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 05, 2011, 03:32:06 AM
Trevor must've taken his undies off and left them in the field again.

Quote from: Trevor on January 05, 2011, 04:02:38 AM
Whoops: I be so busted.

Uh-oh, here comes the Undie Police. Run while you can

RCMerchant · January 05, 2011, 06:18:43 AM

Quote from: Raffine on January 04, 2011, 07:40:00 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 03, 2011, 07:45:27 PM
Actually,Charles Fort had been reporting this kind of stuff back in the 1920's! Birds,fish,frogs,rocks,nuts,flesh...all sortsa weird stuff.

I love Charles Fort's books! He not only reports on all sorts of strange and unexplained phenomena but he had a delighfully bizarre writing style.

That we've been damned by giants sound asleep, or by great scientific principles and abstractions that cannot realize themselves: that little harlots have visited their caprices upon us; that clowns, with buckets of water from which they pretend to cast thousands of good-sized fishes have anathematized us for laughing disrespectfully, because, as with all clowns, underlying buffoonery is the desire to be taken seriously; that pale ignorances, presiding over microscopes by which they cannot distinguish flesh from nostoc or fishes' spawn, have visited upon us their wan solemnities. We've been damned by corpses and skeletons and mummies, which twitch and totter with pseudo-life derived from conveniences.

What the heck it means; I dunno. But its a great read!

I'm a proud Fortean meself!

He's not an easy read....but after you get about halfway through one of his books....it starts to make a bizzare kind of sense..very addicting!...my favorite of his books is WILD TALENTS.

For those unfourtanates not familiar with his wonderful works,they are-
.BOOK OF THE DAMNED
.LO!
.NEW LANDS
.WILD TALENTS

He was even reporting on the UFO phenomenom as far back as 1923!

trekgeezer · January 05, 2011, 08:20:17 AM

Damn! I told those guys not to go into warp inside the atmosphere!