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Thousands Of Birds Died After Mistaking This Walmart Parking Lot For Water
Business Insider ^
| Dina Spector and Gus Lubin
Posted on 12/15/2011 6:21:13 AM PST by fruser1
A Walmart parking lot in Cedar City, Utah was the site of mass carnage when thousands of birds crashed into the pavement Monday night, reports Brian Ahern at The Spectrum.
Wildlife officials believe that the flock of migrating Grebes, a duck-like aquatic bird, was confused by storm clouds that made the parking lot look like a flat body of water...
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: cedarcity; environmentalism; grebes; utah; walmart
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So, what does this portend, a new tax on parking lots or the outright ban on them?
When parking lots are outlawed, only outlaws will have parking lots.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:21:17 AM PST
by
fruser1
To: fruser1
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:22:45 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Just let the people vote.)
To: All
To: fruser1
The birds of Wal-Mart.
From the picture, I couldn't see any way that parking lot looks different from the millions of others out there. I was thinking maybe it was painted blue or something.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:26:40 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
To: fruser1
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:27:13 AM PST
by
SF_Redux
(Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
To: fruser1
they elected the wrong leader
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:28:49 AM PST
by
Selmore
(Except for ending Slavery, Facism, Communism, and Nazism, War never has accomplished anything)
To: Tax-chick
These are divers (fish eaters) not good eating. Eat puddle ducks (grain eaters).
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:29:25 AM PST
by
mmanager
To: fruser1
Trying to put human thought and awareness into a friggen duck. It is called projecting. Its a duck. No one can explain what they do.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:29:56 AM PST
by
edcoil
(It is not over until I win.)
To: Selmore
That’s pretty funny. The parallels are raging right now.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:31:18 AM PST
by
my small voice
(A biased media and an uneducated populace is the biggest threat to our nation.)
To: fruser1
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:31:58 AM PST
by
Lucas McCain
(The day may come when the courage of men will fail, but not this day.)
To: mmanager
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:33:42 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Just let the people vote.)
To: fruser1
The anti-Walmart buzz in this morning’s stories has been toned down, as the birds were found to have crashed all over town. Storm conditions were probably to blame, rather than evil retail.
Interesting view into the media mind’s eye on how this was originally framed. What does the MSM have against Walmart? WM is the enabler of their Chicom buddies.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:35:52 AM PST
by
Rinnwald
To: fruser1
Can anyone find something that grackles will dive into and kill themselves?
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:36:21 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
To: KarlInOhio
Go up in a plane on a Saturday and fly over your local metro. Heck, even look at Google maps and find parking lots.
At the right angle, the sun can glint off of blacktop much the same as still water. If the lot wasn’t striped or otherwise vacant, it’s no surprise that birds might have mistaken it for water.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:36:29 AM PST
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: fruser1
I’ve never seen a flock of birds land on a body of water hard enough to kill themselves if the water turned out to be pavement. They usually ground-effect in. What was this: The 30 MPH, Bill-First Landing?
It just doesn’t seem believable.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:38:42 AM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
("Fair share" are the last two words I hear before I stop taking someone seriously.)
To: fruser1
The #1 killer of birds in the USA: Buildings.
“Bird brained” is an insult indeed.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:43:03 AM PST
by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
To: fruser1; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
I once dove into a Walmart parking lot...
a guy coming out dropped a 12 pack of Lone Star Draft longnecks but I saved 'em from breaking!
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:43:03 AM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: fruser1
The reporter sure let me down I was sure that they would placed some of the blame on all the evil SUV’s parked there in the Walmart lot for some how engineering the carnage.
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:44:43 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Bender2
A much nobler save Bender.
To: Tax-chick
Can they eat them?Mmmmm... Roast Grebe
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posted on
12/15/2011 6:45:24 AM PST
by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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