Warning over crow attacks

This is London ^ | 10 June 2005 | Luke David And Katharine Barney

[general_re]

Insert Tippi Hedron joke here.

[oldcomputerguy]

He needs to jog with a tennis racket next time.

[monkapotamus]

[Red Badger]

I thought this was another Russel Crowe thread......

[Kennesaw]

Hilarious!!

[goldstategop]

Its said when seven crows appear, its a portent of a secret that must never be told.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[kjam22]

[ladtx]

I always knew they would come to a bad end.

[ClearCase_guy]

I thought the British called them "rooks".

Is "rook" considered a slang term?
Is a "rook" a raven rather than crow?

I'm always interested in the differences between Am English and Br English.

[Corin Stormhands]

[Maceman]

[Corin Stormhands]

heh...you beat me to it.

[kjam22]

:) not by much

[WKUHilltopper]

A shotgun with 4 shot will take care of this problem...oh wait, it's illegal to own this in England. Tough nuts, then.

[YaYa123]

Life imitating a nursery rhyme

[expatpat]

First, Jimmy Carter gets attacked by a Killer Rabbit. Now, Euroweenies get attacked by Vicious Crows. Even small, weak, passive animals have no respect for the Lefties.

[expatpat]

A rook is different from a crow (or a raven). A rook looks a lot like a crow, but nests in colonies, rather than singly. Large trees in the UK are often full of a goup of large nests known as a rookery -- interesting sight in the fall (sorry, autumn) when the trees come off the trees. Ravens are bigger birds, about the size of a hawk.

[kjam22]

[Tennessee_Bob]

Another post regards an Englishman being bitten by a poisonous spider at the grocery store - birds, spiders - H.G. Wells was right - it's Food of the Gods! They're coming to get us, I'm telling ya!