No, no!
It was the invisible death ray.
It was really designed to do away with the majestic starling flocks as they make their annual migrations and add to the natural beauty of nature.
Instead it has been turned to evil and sued against people, aircraft, sloths, moonbats, aardvarks, antelopes, macrames...
*wretchingly poor immitation of paranoiac*
That's fine [reassuring pat on the back]...as long as their deaths were painless...