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[Drugged] Stoned Owl Hides Out In Christmas Tree
NBC4 ^ | December 15, 2005

Posted on 12/15/2005 2:35:36 PM PST by nickcarraway

SARASOTA, Fla. -- A bird with a buzz found in a Florida family's Christmas tree is getting ready to go back into the wild.

The little screech owl was found in the tree, which the family had kept for five days before deciding to decorate it.

Animal control officers from Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary came to get the owl, and said they smelled a strange odor on it when they did.

"Curiously enough, the owl's feathers smelled very, very potently like marijuana," said Jeff Dering, of the sanctuary. "They examined the owl, looked at its eyes ... and the owl was, in the vernacular, stoned."

Blood tests confirmed the owl's state.

Sanctuary staff checked the bird out, fed him and named him "Cheech." They said he would be released in a few days.

The buzzing bird also brought an early holiday gift to the sanctuary, which was in need of more than $250,000. The attention the bird has brought has helped ensure the sanctuary's survival.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cannabis; marijuana; stonerraptor; whoolettheowlout; wod
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1 posted on 12/15/2005 2:35:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So, um... how'd they recognize the smell?


2 posted on 12/15/2005 2:36:43 PM PST by thoughtomator (What'ya mean you formatted the cat!?)
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To: thoughtomator

Dang owl-sniffers.


3 posted on 12/15/2005 2:37:17 PM PST by L98Fiero
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To: Owl_Eagle

This is just so you.


4 posted on 12/15/2005 2:37:22 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: nickcarraway

They did a blood test on an owl?


5 posted on 12/15/2005 2:37:41 PM PST by MissRepresent
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To: nickcarraway

birds do it, bees do it...


6 posted on 12/15/2005 2:37:48 PM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: nickcarraway
A Cheech owl. Everybody's a comedian...
7 posted on 12/15/2005 2:38:10 PM PST by null and void (Peace on Earth. Death to the Terrorists...)
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To: nickcarraway; Owl_Eagle; Tijeras_Slim; Fierce Allegiance; Constitution Day

"Unnngh."

8 posted on 12/15/2005 2:39:01 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: nickcarraway

Truth stranger than fiction bump!


9 posted on 12/15/2005 2:39:18 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: nickcarraway

Were the people who had the tree smoking that much? I guess I'm naive. How did it stay stoned for 5 days?


10 posted on 12/15/2005 2:39:26 PM PST by TX Bluebonnet
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Sanctuary staff checked the bird out, fed him and named him "Cheech."

Oreos and Doritos no doubt.

11 posted on 12/15/2005 2:40:17 PM PST by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: martin_fierro; Owl_Eagle

I see you pingel Owl_Eagle already. I think it will be a little while before he replies.


12 posted on 12/15/2005 2:41:00 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I miss my dad.)
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To: TX Bluebonnet

"How did it stay stoned for 5 days?" The owl kept hitting on the bat.


13 posted on 12/15/2005 2:41:11 PM PST by TBall
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To: nickcarraway
The things you find using Google...


14 posted on 12/15/2005 2:41:41 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: TX Bluebonnet
Were the people who had the tree smoking that much? I guess I'm naive. How did it stay stoned for 5 days?

I was wondering the same thing.

At first I was going to ask if it 'inhaled'.

15 posted on 12/15/2005 2:42:57 PM PST by Dustbunny (Main Stream Media -- Making 'Max Headroom' a reality.)
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To: Moonman62

"Oreos and Doritos no doubt."

Wasn't chocolate chip pizza the oblgatory munchee?

Oops! That is an owl we are talking about - gotta have chocolate mousse. ;-)


16 posted on 12/15/2005 2:43:23 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: ghost of nixon

even little owlies in the trees do it


17 posted on 12/15/2005 2:43:42 PM PST by kalee
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To: nickcarraway

You can't make this stuff up. Stranger than fiction.


18 posted on 12/15/2005 2:44:30 PM PST by Rocky (Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
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To: martin_fierro

19 posted on 12/15/2005 2:45:25 PM PST by Commander Salamander
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To: nickcarraway

Musta smoked a "hooter".


20 posted on 12/15/2005 2:48:41 PM PST by GLDNGUN
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