Posted on 05/19/2025 7:04:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Bay area residents are reporting that dozens of birds are exploding and falling out of the sky mid flight.
One ring camera caught the instant of a bird's demise on video. I've time stamped it in this report.
VIDEO AT LINK.........
There's a pop and then it drops.
Residents watching it happen explain it like this:
‘So when they land and it happens, they just quickly explode and it's really violent,' Richmond resident Maximillian Bolling told KGO-TV.
And
'It sounded like a firecracker, and a black bird — a starling — just plummeted to the ground,' witness Mark Hoehner told ABC News. 'I've been under the birds when it happens, and I know where the sound is coming from. It's coming from up on the pole.'
The sound coming from up on the pole caused the residents to call the electrical company, who had fish and wildlife come out and inspect the birds.
‘They have shared that the birds show no evidence of electrocution, and that their deaths were caused by trauma, potentially from a pellet or BB gun, or slingshot,' the utility said in a statement.
But the residents aren't satisfied with that answer.
‘I feel like a BB gun doesn't make a firecracker noise,' resident Heather Jones told the outlet. ‘This sounds exactly like a firecracker.'
The folks on the internet have their own ideas about what is causing the birds to pop and drop.
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
mass bird control? Something in the bait seed? flocks of black birds are a real problem and danger to arriving and departing aircraft.
I never did this, but as a kid I heard stories about feeding birds alka-seltzer tablets. Was told they cant belch or pass gas so it would make their stomachs explode. I have no idea if thats really true or not. But if it were, its the kind of thing feral kids would do for kicks.
Yes, that is what someone is doing most likely to kill pigeons or seagulls.
I know a guy who owned a lake house. There was an open landfill about two miles away. Seagulls started living on the lake 50 miles inland because of the landfill.
He put a bag of fish guts and Alka Seltzer out on the ice one winter night. The sea gull problem went away.
Birds cannot burb. If someone feeds them an alka seltzer the co2 makes them die / explode.
Must be a liberal.
Fake chinese robotic birds
Yes.............................
“As God as my witness, I thought that turkeys could fly!”
Les Nedsman from WKRP is behind this. He hats birds.
I would assume so
Or an AN/SPY-1 series radar.
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here
Life is skittles and life is beer
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring
I do, don’t you? ‘Course you do
But there’s one thing that makes spring complete for me
And makes every Sunday a treat for me
[Verse 2]
All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon
When we’re poisoning pigeons in the park
Every Sunday you’ll see my sweetheart and me
As we poison the pigeons in the park
[Verse 3]
When they see us coming
The birdies all try an’ hide
But they still go for peanuts
When coated with cyanide
The sun’s shining bright
Everything seems all right
When we’re poisoning pigeons in the park
[Verse 4]
We’ve gained notoriety and caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society with our games
They call it impiety and lack of propriety
And quite a variety of unpleasant names
But it’s not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon
[Verse 5]
So if Sunday you’re free, why don’t you come with me?
And we’ll poison the pigeons in the park
And maybe we’ll do in a squirrel or two
While we’re poisoning pigeons in the park
[Verse 6]
We’ll murder them all amid laughter and merriment
Except for the few we take home to experiment
My pulse will be quickenin’ with each drop of strych’nine
We feed to a pigeon
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park
-Tom Lehrer
I doubt there are many of those in San Fransicko neighborhoods. Maybe one at most................
Like movie Signs where they ran into a cloaked spacecraft hovering over a city?
I remember a weirdo in the military who got his thrills back home by live catching mice, tying a fire cracker to them, lighting it and letting them go to watch them run and explode.
Maybe there is a weirdo here doing the same.
alka seltzer...
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