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New York City's beloved barred owl dies after being struck by Central Park maintenance vehicle
CBS News ^
| 6 Aug 2021
| LI COHEN
Posted on 08/07/2021 1:21:44 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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IMO, the owl was sold an illicit business offering exotic and endangered animals as specialty food items! Carmine will cook it up to the peak of perfection.
No way, was anyone working for the City moving fast enough at two AM to take out the bird.
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:21:44 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
the bird coulda been distracted by watching paint dry, and didn’t notice the slow moving vehicle inching towards it
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:23:54 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: DUMBGRUNT
Barry’s last bash.
Hmmm, talk about timing.
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:25:26 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
I guess that Russian cat should cancel the flight to JFK
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:26:40 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Owls are .... welllll ..... NIGHTowls !
Their heads swivel and their eyes see shit no other can see .... and it didn't / couldn't get out of the way of a YUGE maintenance vehicle ?
in my best new yawk ..
bullshit.
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:29:21 PM PDT
by
knarf
(qa)
To: Gene Eric
—”that Russian cat”
That troublemaker sure gets around.
Difficult times for nocturnal aviators!
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:31:35 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:33:50 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
metaphor for the govt-pushed vax shots
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:35:23 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Owl Lives Matter! (Barry dindu nuffins).
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:39:28 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:40:51 PM PDT
by
abb
To: knarf
—”couldn’t get out of the way of a YUGE maintenance vehicle ?”
In my misspent youth, I briefly worked at a vehicle maintenance facility.
Friday evenings after closing was a social period, and at some point, someone would shout “Friday Night Race”!
Everyone would run to the dispatch office and grab a random key from the wall. Then run to the lot looking for the vehicle...The first one to make a lap of the parking lot gets free pizza that night.
Many of the cars/trucks are NOT operational; just like some of the participants.
I could easily believe that some wildlife was lost in the game.
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:44:33 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Lotsa folks with too much times on their hands!!
To: DUMBGRUNT
who ... who ....
who’s fault?
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:46:02 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: DUMBGRUNT; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Doesn’t Jerry’s cousin Jeffrey work for the Parks Department?
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:47:57 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Yeah ... we did that in the motor pool in Korea .... but owls are not hanging around on the ground.
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:52:48 PM PDT
by
knarf
(qa)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Sounds like the poor owl died of COVID and crash landed into a truck
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:53:15 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
(founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
To: knarf
Owls get hit by vehicles all the time. They regularly swoop low for prey and if a car is driving by, it gets hit by the grill or windshield.
I’ve narrowly missed hitting an owl on several occasions.
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:57:05 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: eyeamok
—” the poor owl died of COVID “
“The oldest recorded Barred Owl was at least 24 years, 1 month old. It was banded in Minnesota in 1986, and found dead, entangled in fishing gear, in the same state in 2010.”
Barry was singing the night away and then this!
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posted on
08/07/2021 1:58:03 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: Flycatcher
I was riding a motorcycle in central Oregon one night, and passed maybe a foot beneath a great horned owl. I was going about 60 mph, and that bird’s wingspan looked at that moment like it reached clear across a two-lane road.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Nothing good happens in NYC at 2am.
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posted on
08/07/2021 2:59:26 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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