[BBell]

An owl sits in a Covington police car after flying into the vehicle, causing Officer Lance Benjamin to drive into a ditch on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (Covington P.D.)

Damn BLM Owl.

[FourPeas]

Ouch.

Thankfully Officer Benjamin is OK.

Wow.

[FreedomPoster]

I hate it when that happens.

[Cicero]

I imagined the next text would be that Santa Claus was spotted on Collins Boulevard."

Good thing it was an owl and not a reindeer, or things would have been a lot worse.

[cloudmountain]

HOOOOOOda thunk?

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Sorry for the pun.

[PLMerite]

#StrixLivesMatter

[Bob434]

did the policeman arrest himself for ‘unsafe driving’ and issue himself a ticket?

[faithhopecharity]

another Obama/Soros/Occupy/Communist/IslamoNazi/BlackLivesMatter hooligan out attacking our local police to disrupt and destroy America!

drive him straight to KFC!!!

(just kidding, he looks wonderful, actually he’s a VERY handsome critter!

Merry Christmas, fhc

[Calvin Locke]

"Little Thibodaux was walking down a dirt road carrying a
dead hawk when a Yankee drove up beside Little Thibodaux and
asked the boy "Where're you going with that hawk?"

Little Thibodaux said to the Yankee "Gonna make me some gumbo".

The Yankee asks "Well, what does Hawk Gumbo taste like?"

Little Thibodaux said "'bout like owl..." - Justin Wilson

[BigEdLB]

Owls drink “fortified” eggnog? Who knew?

[gundog]

Birds of prey pretty commonly sit in trees by the road, eyeing the shoulder on the side opposite. I’ve had some close calls at dusk and early morning...the trajectory is right for a windshield shot or a pair of taloned feet in your lap.

[Vendome]

Who did that happen?

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’ve had a crow hit me in the shoulder while I was riding a motorcycle on the interstate at 75mph. It hurt for a while.

What’s really interesting is a friend of mine several years ago rode his Honda ST1100 motorcycle across the country to Arkansas from the PacNW. He didn’t like to wear his helmet, but kept a skidlid on the tank of his bike in front of him as he rode. If he saw a cop he would plop it on real quick.

In some state he was passing through with a helmet law a cop saw him without his helmet going the opposite direction. He popped his skidlid on real fast, but the cop turned around and stopped him anyway. The cop couldn’t figure out how or where the helmet came from, but my friend had it on.

The cop gave him a warning and said he should always wear it. When my friend asked ‘why’ the officer responded that a bird might hit him. After the officer let him go with that warning my friend was cruising down the road for a few miles and a bird hit his motorcycle square on into the head light. Fortunately, he had a a Lexan shield in front of it and that was the only damage done.

[BlueLancer]

In 1976 while guarding an ammo point at Wildflecken, West Germany, I was walking the perimeter with another soldier who was on the opposite side of the ammo point. Shortly after midnight, I was struck on the head from behind, my helmet liner knocked from my head, and I was driven to my knees by the force of the blow.

At first, I thought we were under assault by somebody trying to break into the ammo point, but there was no one around. Standing up, I picked up my helmet liner to replace it and saw that there were three large, deep scratches in the helmet liner. Upon looking around the area further, I spotted a very large owl perched on one of the spotlight towers. My only assumption was that this owl had thought it had seen something edible in the shine of my helmet liner and had made a swipe at it.

Although I spotted the owl .. or one similar .. on several occasions later, it never hit at me again, probably determining that I was inedible.