100,000 dead fish in Arkansas near where 5,000 blackbirds dropped from sky

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 1/03/2011 | AAP

[Sprite518]

The AP said more than 1000 birds fell from the sky, but CNN put the number at up to 5000.

[Sprite518]

This is really odd? I'm not buying the lightning story. If that was the case, then we would see it more often. After all lightening happens all the time. It would not be an anomaly. Can anyone else ever recall this happening before? Ditto the disease fish. Very odd indeed.

[SIDENET]

I blame Global Warming.

[al baby]

A dry run ?

[TASMANIANRED]

Fin and flock disease.

[Louis Foxwell]

Reports are just beginning to come in. We should hear about dead mammals and reptiles, especially frogs and turtles. Unless this is in an area with no people there should also be reports of human deaths. It sound like a massive gas bubble. Is there a major lake in the area?

[o_zarkman44]

Smells fishy. Like a chemical weapons test.

[Liberty Valance]

bump to the top

[Keith]

Janene Garofolo raised her armpits.

[Dallas59]

BUSH'S FAULT!

[Kieri]

Isn’t Arkansas experiencing a surge in earthquakes? I wonder if friction in the fault lines are...er...”at fault.”

[o_zarkman44]

I don’t think any official government explanation should be accepted for this.

[InvisibleChurch]

Why do we always get our local news from the U K?

[Domestic Church]

There has been some earthquake activity so maybe a methane release?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/34.36.-93.-91.php

[Orbiter]

Sure. Thousands of birds felled by lightning. Happens everywhere all the time, right? Sure. Why remember the last time...uh...over near...um...

[Beowulf9]

“The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said it suspected disease was to blame for the death of the drum fish...”

Disease wouldn’t send them all belly up in a short time span, and the birds reveal their is more to this than that explaination.

[TYVets]

The commission said that New Year's Eve revellers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.

What an ignorant statement. Perhaps stupid is a better description of that part of the statement.

How many PETA persons are on the commission?

[Cicero]

The commission said that New Year's Eve revellers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.

Yeah, sure.

This is certainly very odd.

[Rational Thought]

You couldn’t expect the Baghdad Bob Media here to report on this?

[9422WMR]

Here’s the source of the problem:
www.manta.com/c/mtb905x/arkansas-nuclear-one-inc

I TOLD YOU. NUKLEUR POWER.
/////SSSSSS

[cpa4you]

I can remember being near Stuttgart, AR (major rice production area), back in the 1990s during winter when it seemed to rain game birds. Seems there was a very violent thunderstorm coupled with rice fields where the migratory birds flew over and fed. Long story short, there were thousands of dead birds in the rice fields. Not so unusual.

[caww]

Well I do believe that’s possible as I’ve seen authorites use fireworks to rid flocks of nusance birds from buildings. I worked at a huge mall where large flocks of birds would lite. You’d leave work and see the sky black with them. They set off fireworks from the mall roof throughout the day...all Mall employees were informed so we wouldn’t be alarmed at the sounds of the “bombs” going off...which is what they sounded like throughout the day. More than a few of these pests died.

[I see my hands]

Poor birdies :(

[FReepaholic]

Coincidence. The fish kill and the bird kill sites are 200km apart.

[varina davis]

There was a lot of tornado activity in Arkansas over New Year’s

[Flag_This]

What? No one here ever heard of Charles Fort? He collected and reported stories like these. Didn’t Arkansas just experience some tornadoes?

[NicNacPattyWac]

Very odd indeed. The distance between Ozark & Beebe is 125 miles and neither share a waterway.

[DBrow]

“Like a chemical weapons test.”

Quite a weapon if it can select a species of fish. OP would kill everything.

[hoosiermama]

Dinner?

[Jet Jaguar]

Heads up.

[DBrow]

“The fish kill and the bird kill sites are 200km apart.”

Ah! Thanks.

Still does not explain the issue. The pic shows red-wing blackbird, or maybe a tricolor.

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[Gritty-Kitty]

"It sounds like a massive gas bubble."

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Rosie O'Donnell?

[TN4Liberty]

That would sure solve the lead shot problems... just don’t load any shot and let the report of the shotgun scare them to death.

That really is a remarkably stupid explanation, isn’t it?

[taxesareforever]

The birds got a glimpse of Helen Thomas. End of story.

[worst-case scenario]

That’s what it sounds like. Is it stolen Army goods and an accident, or an attempt at manufacturing home-made weapons gone bad?

[montag813]

A dry run ?

A "dry run" for who.....?

SATAN???

[Georgia Girl 2]

Chemtrails or Acid rain.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I don’t think any official government explanation should be accepted for this.”

The official government explanation should never be accepted for anything.

[GreenLanternCorps]

You know, an event like this was an important plot point in FlashForward...

[UCANSEE2]

You are correct. Birds falling out of the sky is not all that unusual.

Now.... frogs falling out of the sky is another matter.

And as impossible as that may seem, it also happens.

[Quix]

Plausible, to me.

Thx.

[WKUHilltopper]

Kamikaze Krows?—a la Hitchcock?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1223088/pg1

There is some speculation that a caldera might exist under western Arkansas going into Oklahoma, in the area of the Arkansas River Valley.

Since drum fish are bottom feeders, they would be susceptible to seepage of toxic gases through the river bottom.

[MsLady]

Sounds like some type of poisoning. Terrorist dry run?

[lacrew]

Arkancide

[Libloather]

Dang. Haven’t seen your name around here for awhile. Did you take a vacation during the rookie Hussein years?

[MsLady]

Something that can’t be smelled or tasted?? I’d be seriously worried if I lived in the area. I pray to God people are going to be ok.