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There was no mention of what kind of birds were involved. Mods, move this if this is not the correct part of FR for this news.
1 posted on 01/08/2007 4:39:57 AM PST by Arrowhead1952
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Not good.


2 posted on 01/08/2007 4:41:24 AM PST by kinoxi
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To: Arrowhead1952

Wow Canary in the Coal mine?
Any Free Republic posters up to ping about this.

Keep us posted.


4 posted on 01/08/2007 4:45:53 AM PST by Global2010 ( I am just ole Lab dog with my head stickin' out the window and my ears a flappin' in the wind.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Not a good thing...?

Blowing the street clean? ah...do they know what IT was that killed the birds or where it is?


5 posted on 01/08/2007 4:45:53 AM PST by EBH (May God Save Our Country)
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To: Arrowhead1952

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!


6 posted on 01/08/2007 4:48:19 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Bird flu?


7 posted on 01/08/2007 4:48:52 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Arrowhead1952

...Martian death ray.


10 posted on 01/08/2007 4:50:19 AM PST by familyop
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Amos 3:5 Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it? Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?

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).

13 posted on 01/08/2007 4:51:51 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

maybe the core of the earth stopped spinning sending the birds into the side of a building hence killing them


16 posted on 01/08/2007 4:52:51 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Tempus Fidget - The time between the final hymn and recessional.)
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First, I'd want to see a photograph and the timeline-weather at that locale.

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).

18 posted on 01/08/2007 4:54:29 AM PST by Eclectica (Ask your MD about Evolution. Please!)
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Somebody get a new pellet rifle for Christmas?


22 posted on 01/08/2007 4:58:37 AM PST by Hatteras
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I don't think its terrorism.

For many years, Pittsburgh news anchor Bill Burns suggeted killing this city's pigeons. Never did, but maybe someone in Austin is following through.

Burns commentated once that Pittsburgh ought to kill its pigeons, freeze dry them and ship them to Ethiopia to relieve a famine over there.


23 posted on 01/08/2007 4:58:42 AM PST by I_Like_Spam
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I don't see the humor in this report that others seems to see.


24 posted on 01/08/2007 4:59:32 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: Arrowhead1952

"Paging Tippi Hedren......."


27 posted on 01/08/2007 5:03:43 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Arrowhead1952

Bush's fault!


29 posted on 01/08/2007 5:05:40 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (Free speech for thee, but not for me?)
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To: Arrowhead1952

"There was no mention of what kind of birds were involved."


That's funny! I hope they were Grackles. Nobody cares for them.


30 posted on 01/08/2007 5:06:38 AM PST by wolfcreek (Please Lord, May I be, one who sees what's in front of me.)
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There was a hail storm a year or so ago that killed thousands of Grackles and other birds in Austin. Not much news on that story at the time.


32 posted on 01/08/2007 5:09:15 AM PST by wolfcreek (Please Lord, May I be, one who sees what's in front of me.)
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Part of Pelosi's 100 hour program? 'Redistribution' of birds?
33 posted on 01/08/2007 5:09:27 AM PST by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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Coyboys fans committing mass suicide?...........


36 posted on 01/08/2007 5:11:17 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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Musta been one helluva stone...


37 posted on 01/08/2007 5:11:23 AM PST by LIConFem (Just opened a new seafood restaurant in Great Britain, called "Squid Pro Quid")
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This may have something to do with this.

Pigeon deterrent installed over Austin trail

40 posted on 01/08/2007 5:16:20 AM PST by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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