Posted on 01/08/2007 4:39:56 AM PST by Arrowhead1952
Several blocks of Congress Ave are closed as police investigate the death of dozens and dozens of birds lying in the street.
KLBJ spoke to the APD's Toni Shovenitz, She says they are speculating it is some type of posioning.
Right now police are using leaf-blowers to clean the road. They hope re-open this area before rush hour traffic.
Not good.
No, this is not good. Ping for other Austin locals.
Wow Canary in the Coal mine?
Any Free Republic posters up to ping about this.
Keep us posted.
Not a good thing...?
Blowing the street clean? ah...do they know what IT was that killed the birds or where it is?
Perhaps a Tom Lehrer fan was taking things a bit too seriously???
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
I'd like to take you now on wings of song as it were, and try and help you forget, perhaps, for a while, your drab wretched lives. Here is a song all about springtime in general, and in particular about one of the many delightful pastimes that the coming of spring affords us all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you!
Bird flu?
I know ya would think air quality control would be on it to nullify that and then get them birds to a lab sufficiant to autopsy and find out if Jo Austin Texas is at risk when he goes to work in a few moments.
What is a good link for this story?
Birds fel.
...Martian death ray.
Dixie Chicks rehearse nearby?
Carolyn
To those looking for answers...God knows who did it.
Matthew 10:29 "Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father (knowing it).
LOL! That would do it.
Not likely, overnight event. Birds would have been showing signs for several days.
maybe the core of the earth stopped spinning sending the birds into the side of a building hence killing them
Legislature in session?
Tall communications-towers hidden by fog has killed thousands of nighttime migratory birds at several sites in the US and Canada. (Now-extinct site was www.towerkills.org).
It's a classic song by Tom Lehrer, 60's satirist and composer extraordinaire.
...and Ronnie Earle will jail Him as a material witness.
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