Like I said in a previous thread....Yankee stadium would set it off.
Being a bird "owner" (they actually "own" the "owners") and having had several large parrots - Blue and Golds - I can tell you that "Challenger" has a lot more sense and class than most would give him credit for. That beak is especially made for cutting and tearing meat. If that eagle had actually "bit" Klintoon, he would be minus most of his hand- and it would have taken all of about a millisecond for it to happen!
According to the stories, he didn't even break the skin on Klintoon's hand. One of my blue and gold macaw's was an extremely gentle bird, but if I teased her or played with her beyond her desire to play, she would grab my hand or finger with lightning speed and push it away, in effect telling me that she was done playing or "buzz off"! She never bit me or broke any skin doing it.
But I could hold up a piece of 2x2 wood, and she could tear off a chunk of it with no trouble at all... or crack open a brazil nut with little effort.
So it is very obvious to me that Challenger was letting Klintoon know exactly how he felt! And having had many parrots, I've found that anyone who equates them with "bird brains" is sadly mistaken. Like mnay animals, he probably had a great sense of the true Klintoon character and was just letting everyone know about it.
I have read all those descriptions on this thread of W's actions tonight and wished I'd been able to see it.
Additionally, I live not a long ways from two major military bases... one Army and one Air Force. The artillery practice shakes my house and often can be rather annoying. However, there was some rather active, continuous shelling practice today and this evening, and for some reason it seemed... ummmm... comforting, rather than annoying. All I could think of was that I would love it if there were Taliwackers under each and every one of them explosions. Hope our guys are getting a lot of good practice so when they go over there, their aim will be right on!