Hundreds of baby birds killed by volleyball players on Alabama barrier island

https://www.al.com/ ^ | 8/5/18 | Ben Raines

[yarddog]

I don’t care a thing about girls volleyball but I did see a high school tournament on TV.

My first thought was “where did these local high schools get so many tall, hot players”? In my high school, Class of 65, there might have been one girl like that and she was very shy.

[logitech]

I grew up in Mobile and fished these waters for years.

Everybody (most) who care about the critters that inhabit the area are respectful and love them.

I’m not sure what “island” they are talking about, but it’s probably Sand island. A transient barrier sand spit.

It was big when I was young, but through the years and some storms it’s pretty small now.

Bunch of dumb a** drunk kids.

[exDemMom]

Sometimes I think there is truth to that increasingly popular belief that teenage brains are still not completely formed, and wont be until about 19.

Actually, the human brain continues to develop until about age 25. After that, it starts to deteriorate.

The fact that these kids' brains are still maturing does not excuse their behavior.

[Ace's Dad]

BIG correction ——”Just as long they DON’T ban Female volleyball tournaments!!!

Even indoor girl's volleyball is well worth watching, especially the U of Hawaii's "Rainbow Wahines!"

[Clutch Martin]

Move the airports...

[grateful]

I just can't imagine people doing this intentionally. How horrible.

My mom has hanging plants on the porch. She loves to take them down to water, tend, switch out for different varieties, etc. One year, she found a sparrow nest with eggs in it. She left the plant alone so the little baby birds would have a chance. :) My mom's not exactly an animal lover, she never wanted pets, but she has respect for life. It's not really a surprise that all her kids grew up to be animal lovers.

[robowombat]

Soldiers pretty much know this. It is the 18-20 year old who will run right at a machine gun or jump on a grenade. Many really don't think they will die even after being in combat for a while. Never heard of a senior NCO grenade jumper but I did know a Master Sergeant who as a SFC had a grenade be tossed by Charlie right in front of him on a paddy dyke. His response after about a second was to kick the grenade as hard as he could while grabbing the soldier in from and the one behind and pulling them backward with his momentum. The grenade detonated showering the three GI’s with frags. End of story the SFC got the Bronze Star with V and the Purple Heart and the other two soldiers the Purple Heart and the Arcom for Valor (I talked it up a bit for those kids, was the SFC’s comment).

[_longranger81]

“I’m surprised they’re not off limits during nesting.”

Oh, no, women volleyballers are always in season!

[lee martell]

Wow. What a story. Splint second thinking, with zero mulligans allowed. Thanks.

[MrEdd]

What, wheres your outrage?

Your smelling salts?

Your safe place and coloring book?

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[Rebelbase]

They didn’t care in the least.

[Alas Babylon!]

I’m sorry, Bill, I put in your name but it didn’t take.

See post 2.

[Alas Babylon!]

Sorry, meant to send this to FReeper Blam!

[Rebelbase]

The left will use this event to try and have the island declared a bird sanctuary and close it during nesting season.

That’s what the National Park Service does to portions of the Outer Banks during Piping Plover nesting.

There are 50 miles of beach that are not connected to the mainland and reached via private ferry then 4WD access only.

The bird prefer the flats at the points. At the first sign of a plover’s next the park service ropes off vehicle access.

[xrmusn]

Few years back the Yankees had an outfielder-Dave Winfield that was in Toronto and hit a seagull with a baseball.
I think they charged him and he had to miss a trip or two to Canada because of it.

It was ‘rumored’ he claimed that if he could hit a flying bird with a baseball and kill it, he was wasting his time playing baseball (Or something like that)

[2111USMC]

I tried the towel in the wast band trick. Didn’t work.

As soon as I tried to towel off one of the sweaty girls I got thrown out.

[a fool in paradise]

An egg is a baby bird?

Not to hear pro-aborts in the media tell it.

[EinNYC]

This is really horrible. Not only the very significant dent the destruction of a new generation of baby terns represents, but the completely callous attitudes of these pitiful ignorant slobs. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve encountered idiots at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge letting their kids chase birds, picking flowers or seashells, tramping all over fragile beach vegetation in No Access areas, leaving trash behind—you name it, I’ve seen it. If I see it happening, I most definitely tell the perp off in no uncertain terms. If possible, I get one of the rangers to go after them as well. Especially around here, a wildlife refuge is such a special thing, a gift for the weary soul to refresh itself.

[gigster]

My, aren't we the sensitive one. You obviously haven't read many of my comments on stories or you wouldn't be so snide. To illustrate the senseless thought processes that peple have about protected areas, I give you this story. There is a small village in extreme nortnwest lower Michigan named Cross Village. To get there, you take M-119 north from Harbor Springs through what is known as the Tunnel of Trees (youtube it) until you reach Cross Village. There is a beach at Cross Village. There is a sign on the beach. It proclaims the beach a protected area because it is a sensative nesting area for the Piping Plover. The money-shot of the story is the sign also states that there hasn't been a Piping Plover seen in the entire area since 1938. That's IT.

[Sans-Culotte]

It's a "horrific crime"? Really. It sounds like some drunk, dumb-ass kids were acting like drunk, dumbass kids to me.

I do think it is a crime and that the drunk, dumbass kids should be held responsible. Sometimes drunken dumbassery rises to the level of criminality.

But you are right about media hyperbole. A "horrific crime" is Richard Speck killing all those nurses. I remember listening to some sports talk bozos here in Houston. They were discussing golfer Fuzzy Zoeller's remark that he hoped Tiger Woods wouldn't choose fried chicken as his Master's commemorative dinner. One of the local bozos was "appalled" by the remarks. Sure, Zoeller should have thought it through a little better, but "appalled"? "Appalled" is the reaction for the guys who liberated the death camps in Poland.