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60+ Starlings Die Within Minutes and Inches of Each Other on Ft Knox (Vanity)
Self | 20 Jan 05 | SLB

Posted on 01/20/2005 7:14:55 PM PST by SLB

At noon today the MP's had a section of Wilson Road blocked off. It was later announced that 60+ Starlings had all died near the old Anderson Golf Course. The birds were all in a very small area. The post MEDCOM did not find any evidence of toxins, but . . . . . . . .


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; clarice; fortknox; itsbushsfault; knox; pests; starlings
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To: SLB
Mexican buffet at the club house for old retiree's golf tournament ?

Poor critters are victims of a shotgun start beer fart IMHO !
61 posted on 01/20/2005 7:48:18 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: SLB

Ft Knox is in a hazardous weather watch now and it looks like there may have been a line of thunderstorms move through earlier in the day.

Lightening strike?


62 posted on 01/20/2005 7:48:48 PM PST by Phsstpok ("When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring.")
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To: b4its2late

We're doomed! Doomed I tell you!


63 posted on 01/20/2005 7:49:08 PM PST by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a conservative.)
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To: SLB

[Dig out the tinfoil and lets hear some theory on this one.]



I've got mine ready!

http://www.johnf-ingkerry.com/


64 posted on 01/20/2005 7:51:34 PM PST by spinestein (Do I even need the sarcasm tag?)
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To: SLB
For the past week or so, we've had the big black birds flocking by the thousands at twilight in the neighborhood. A few loud reports later, they leave for more hospitable accomodations before dusk.

Gotta love my neighbors. Nary a single dead bird in the yard here thus far.

65 posted on 01/20/2005 7:56:44 PM PST by NautiNurse (Osama bin Laden has more tapes than Steely Dan)
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To: SLB


66 posted on 01/20/2005 7:59:22 PM PST by Radix (Announcing a new Contest: Name this Tag Line. Nothing else to do and there are no prizes.)
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To: SLB

It's probably due to EM's being release from the earths surface when the collision with the two icebergs in Antartica caused the poles to switch positions for a split second.

Be prepared for a humongous earthquake on the east coast of America.


67 posted on 01/20/2005 8:01:12 PM PST by auggy (http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-DownhomeKY /// Check out My USA Photo album & Fat Files)
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To: Strategerist

"My Dad used to bait them in and let me blaze away..."

Mmmmmmm.....Blaze.....


68 posted on 01/20/2005 8:15:40 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: SLB
Back in the mid 80's I saw 14 ducks fall from the sky within 10 seconds of each other right in front of my blind. I have four other witnesses to the fact.
69 posted on 01/20/2005 8:19:46 PM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state.)
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To: SLB

Got too many dead birds hanging around? It could have been solved with this (from CNN, 1/20/05):

ROSWELL, New Mexico (AP) -- A routine traffic stop Wednesday led to the discovery of more than 60 sick and hungry cats in the back of a moving van driven by a 71-year-old woman.

Mary Jane Lyle pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of animal cruelty at a court appearance. She was being held in a Chaves County detention center.

If prosecuted, the charges carry possible prison time.

An officer pulled over the van because one of its taillights was out. While the officer was talking to Lyle, he heard noises coming from the back.

"Our officer heard a cat that appeared to be injured in some way," said police spokesman Robert Giles.

Lyle said she had a cat. But when the officer opened the back of the truck, he discovered 63.

Two of the cats were dead and the others were "in various stages of health," Giles said.

The cats were turned over to local animal control officers.

Police said Lyle was traveling from Minden, Michigan, to Tucson, Arizona.


70 posted on 01/20/2005 8:23:01 PM PST by Middle-O-Road (In favor of blowing all terrorists to China, via other hotter places where they'll linger a while.)
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To: SLB

Starlings are particularly sensitive to West Nile virus, and the health department here in Memphis has asked that any dead birds be reported to them for disposal.


71 posted on 01/20/2005 8:31:32 PM PST by MainFrame65
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To: flashbunny
Hooooeee! A 50 rounds per second, air-powered bb-firing minigun!

I want one!!

72 posted on 01/20/2005 8:34:50 PM PST by TXnMA (Attention, ACLU: There is no constitutionally protected right to NOT be offended -- Shove It!)
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To: farmfriend

Bug-spray? We ought to look into this.


73 posted on 01/20/2005 8:35:00 PM PST by Seadog Bytes (Benedict Arnold was a 'war hero' too... before he became a TRAITOR...!!!)
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To: TWohlford

Starlings (and house sparrows) were actually introduced in the 1800's in NY's Central Park by some English asshat who wanted to bring to America all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's plays. Nice work, Lord Half-a-Head.


74 posted on 01/20/2005 8:38:56 PM PST by Jhensy
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To: SLB
Here's the scoop:

THE FIRST SETTLERS
The European Starling is not native to America. In the late 1800’s Eugene Scheiffelin set out to introduce to America all of the birds depicted in Shakespeare’s writings. Scheiffelin released sixty starlings in Central Park in March of 1890 and forty more the following year. From this small group of founders came all of the starlings that you see in America today!

STARLINGS TODAY
Within seventy years starlings had usurped the continental United States and most of Canada. By 1970 they had reached the Arctic Circle. The current population of starlings in North America ranges from over two hundred million to estimates as high as a billion. Starlings force native species such as bluebirds, woodpeckers, flickers and purple martins out of their natural habitats. They are extremely adaptable to man’s urban environment - so as we progress so do they. In addition to their natural diet of insects, berries and seed, starlings will eat human food like french fries, cookies and popcorn.

Kill one today.

75 posted on 01/20/2005 8:44:34 PM PST by Jhensy
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To: Mr. Jeeves
The gold in Fort Knox backs up trillions in leveraged debt. ;)

Saw the smiley, but I have to point out something about the gold in Ft. Knox. Sure, there is a =lot= of gold there, but ain't hardly any of it owned by the U.S. government. Most of are gold reserves for other countries. A bunch of it is owned by the federal reserve banks, but almost none by the govt itself.

76 posted on 01/20/2005 8:59:44 PM PST by zeugma (Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
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To: SLB
Isn't Wilson road close to the tank/gunnery range? (Been a while since I've been to Knox) I've seen the concussion of a 155 kill dozens of birds that were close by.

5.56mm

77 posted on 01/20/2005 9:11:11 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: SLB

Kendrick Starling is dead?


78 posted on 01/20/2005 9:18:50 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: MaryFromMichigan
"Starlings- "The other white meat!"

Now I don't care who you are...Thats Funny!

79 posted on 01/20/2005 9:22:43 PM PST by Khurkris (That sound you hear coming from over the horizon...thats me laughing.)
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To: nightdriver
"My dad once got 75 of the dirty birds with one shot of his 12 gauge shotgun."

I remember that...that shot was about 400 yards...downhill...in the rain...at night...with a wind of about 15 mph...good thing he had that lazer light and hydrodynamic rangefinder/stabilizer on his shotgun.

...p.s....I'm just kidding...;-)

80 posted on 01/20/2005 9:28:52 PM PST by Khurkris (That sound you hear coming from over the horizon...thats me laughing.)
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