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Drivers avoid geese falling from the sky
The Centre Daily Times ^ | March 8, 2009 | Mark Nale

Posted on 03/08/2009 7:17:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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1 posted on 03/08/2009 7:17:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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The Core.


2 posted on 03/08/2009 7:18:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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I’d hate to have one of those hit my windshield...


3 posted on 03/08/2009 7:19:16 PM PDT by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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As a “WKRP in Cincinnati” fan, all I can think of is, “God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”


4 posted on 03/08/2009 7:19:30 PM PDT by Cloverfarm
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Coulda been the Navy testing their sonar. Oh wait thats whales.

Sully gets payback?


5 posted on 03/08/2009 7:20:21 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Oh the Humanity!!!!


6 posted on 03/08/2009 7:22:21 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Hail! I wonder what happened?


7 posted on 03/08/2009 7:24:59 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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Awww, poor geese.


8 posted on 03/08/2009 7:25:15 PM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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9 posted on 03/08/2009 7:25:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Poachers.


10 posted on 03/08/2009 7:25:23 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Yes, Gorbachev is better than Obama. At least Gorbachev admitted he was a Communist)
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Wasn’t that about the same time 0bama was flying to Ohio to brag about the 25 new police jobs he created? Maybe Air Force One has some kind of goose death ray to protect itself from bird strikes?


11 posted on 03/08/2009 7:25:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
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Yeah, I had WKRP flashbacks reading this too.


12 posted on 03/08/2009 7:25:32 PM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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13 posted on 03/08/2009 7:26:34 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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the most likely explanation is that they were thrown to the ground by a severe downdraft during the storm.”

Windshear. It has dropped airliners like rocks before. Too bad, geese don't have the new doppler radar to warn them.

14 posted on 03/08/2009 7:26:40 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Does anyone know where pilot “Sully” Sullenberger was at the time?


15 posted on 03/08/2009 7:28:17 PM PDT by Bernard Marx (Free California from public employee union rule!)
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Coulda been the Navy testing their sonar. Oh wait thats whales.

Reminds me of a story from a radar class. The teacher told about when birds would land on an antenna some of the operators would turn on the radar frying the birds. They would fall down to the deck where other crew men would kick them overboard. Then the officers would come out and yell at everyone involved.

16 posted on 03/08/2009 7:31:01 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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17 posted on 03/08/2009 7:31:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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What State is this? Please put in subject line, THX!


18 posted on 03/08/2009 7:40:14 PM PDT by acoulterfan
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Not necessarily lightening per se, but perhaps the geese were in precisely the right spot for the intense resultant concussion of the thunder clap to stun them.

There would not be any evidence I would think. The disoriented, or knocked out birds would fall, and their bodies would be crushed by the impact of hitting the ground.

A little speculation on my part.


19 posted on 03/08/2009 7:45:47 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will, they ALL have Fairies livin' in their Trees.)
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W have bird 'fallouts' here on Dauphin Island, Alabama.

"Porter says that the most spectacular birding events happen during what is called “fall out” conditions. “Waiting for a good tail wind, the birds begin their migration from the Yucatan Peninsula around dusk and fly for 600 miles before arriving along the coast the next afternoon,” he said. “If the weather is right some of the birds may fly as far as Montgomery or Birmingham before stopping to rest. But, if the weather changes in flight and they fly into a head wind or cold front, the exhausted birds literally fall out of the sky by the hundreds onto Dauphin Island.”

Hummingbirds will fly for 26 hours to cross the Gulf Of Mexico to come here too.

20 posted on 03/08/2009 7:54:15 PM PDT by blam
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