Posted on 01/15/2023 3:55:37 PM PST by PJ-Comix
I have had a lifelong morbid fear of birds. Why? Because I am convinced birds have a hatred for all humanity. These video clips reveal the indiscriminate bird attacks upon everybody from innocent children to Hassidic Jews to even famous Italian male models.
My fear of birds was only heightened by a bird we had in our yard which was full of fruit trees when I was a kid. Whenever I would try to pick avocados or mangos or lemons or papayas the damn bird would always attack me. Worst of all the attacks was at the lime tree where the bird nested. I still nightmares about that.
The weird thing is that I am very comfortable around most other animals. Even barking dogs with bared teeth don't bother me. Also I have dived surrounded by sharks and barracuda. No problem but when I surface and see a seagull near me, the old fear comes back.
I used to think I was the only one in the world with an extreme fear of birds until I found out that Lucille Ball also had a great fear of birds. That made me feel good since from that point on I realized I wasn't the only one in the world with an incredible fear of birds
PING!
I remember an Alfred Hitchcock movie about that.
Me too but for me it was all too real.
There were some birds that are aggressive toward non-birds and there are some that are not. No need to tar them all with the same brush. Know thy birds.
OK, that was funny.
My son had banty rooster who would come and spur you when you turned your back. We walked backwards a lot.
If the DUmmy is afraid of birds, then I wouldnât recommend âMarch Of The Penguinsâ, âOwls Of Gaholeâ or anything featuring Donald Duck or Daffy Duck.
Ostriches are ********.
I had a tom cat who was too fat and lazy to hunt.
He’d lay outside in a particular spot and the mockingbirds would start dive-bombing him, more than one of them.
He would just lay there and take it, until with perfect timing he’d snag of them and start munching down, while the other birds went extra nuts.
He figured out how to get free food delivery.
Didn’t some guy in Florida get killed by a cassowary a few years ago?
Yep, toed his femoral.
Birds are actually avian dinosaurs.
A bit of humor:
God comes down and sits on a sofa. He then says to a German Sheperd dog , “What is your purpose in life? “ He says, “To obey my master”. God says ,”Good , sit on my left side”. He then asked a Bull dog, “What is your purpose in life? “ and he responds , “To obey my master”. God says ,”Good , sit on my right side”. He then says to a cat , “What is your purpose in life? “ The cat responds, “ Well, I think you are sitting in my space”.
Pretty soon after that happened, he had no moa blood.
Cassowaries are slightly smaller than ostriches, but more dangerous, mainly due to their dagger long talons.
They are notorious for using those talons to disembowel their foe.
About three years ago, I read about an older gentleman who used to raise these birds to sell. A particulat Cass’ that the man had raised from a Chick ‘out of nowhere’ decided to slice and dice this fellow. Of course, he expired on the spot.
Ugghh...
:)
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