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Owl leaves imprint on Kendal woman's window (wow, very cool)
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Posted on 07/15/2011 5:05:44 PM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
Interesting, but seems way too good to be real.
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:19:57 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Both sides need to put aside the partisan bickering, & work out how much free stuff I get)
To: nuconvert
If you look very, very close, you can see an image of the Virgin Mary...........I’d put it up for sale on Ebay.
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:21:25 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(You ca't forfeit the game Chuck! If you go home you forfeit!)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
It does seem way too detailed.
I’ll keep an eye out for updates on the story.
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:21:50 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
Isn't that a Windex ad on TV?
No, wait...
It's the birds that are yukking it up, and it's the stupid white male that walks into the window.
-PJ
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:21:54 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
To: nuconvert
But it was posted today :)
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:23:09 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
To: mewzilla
lol. I’m not a Harry Potter fan, and I didn’t know he had an owl.
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:25:28 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
At our old house in Phoenix we had a huge picture window onto the back yard. Although we never saw evidence of an owl, on that window we would commonly get “dove prints”. Almost always the dove would fly away, surprised but apparently uninjured.
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:31:26 PM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
To: nuconvert
Total fake. Any bird hitting the glass would have folded its wings on impact not spread them. Also, what left the imprint? Was the owl covered with flour? What would make the eyes so perfectly round.
It's a fake...
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:36:44 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
To: nuconvert
To those who think this is too detailed: I once ran into a large black bird at 65 mph when driving cross country. It left a very detailed imprint like that. (It however did not survive.)
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:39:09 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
To: raybbr
Why?
If the glass was clear, would the bird be expecting the impact?
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:45:59 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Political Junkie Too
Yeah, because all white males are stupid. TV teaches us that. And all rich people are bad and frame poor people for their crimes. And all terrorists are white males, too.
To: raybbr
Experts said the silhouette was left by the bird’s “powder down” - a substance protecting growing feathers.
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:51:42 PM PDT
by
Catphish
To: mewzilla
Yep...just saw it in 3D. Excellent.
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posted on
07/15/2011 5:55:13 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: nuconvert
I think Fluffy the cat was sitting in the window and the owl went in for dinner only to find at the last second about the window, put on the brakes but smashed in anyway. However, I have seen many birds hit windows and I have never seen one put on the brakes first.....hmmmmmmm. Then again, the owl would naturally be putting on the brakes to grab the cat so maybe the window was not a factor at all.
This will be psychologically damaging to the owl though, he will always remember how painful and humiliating it was and might be very hesitant in his later hunting.
One thing is for sure, this event was certainly not a hoot for the owl, though likely was for the cat.
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posted on
07/15/2011 6:00:18 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
07/15/2011 6:05:09 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Choot em, Elizabeth!)
To: nuconvert
It’s a white owl.... We used to smoke ‘em.
Seriously though, that would be really creepy coming at you.
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posted on
07/15/2011 6:05:17 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
To: freedumb2003
I dunno to get that image the owl would have to flying forward while oriented vertically.May have instituted the back-stroke at the last second before impact...
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posted on
07/15/2011 6:10:56 PM PDT
by
Iscool
(I don't understand all that I know...)
To: raybbr
On the farm we had birds break their necks flying into our 3 season porch. Most were found dead underneath the window...Heard one loud bang one day and found a yellow wing flicker laying under the window...when I went to pick it up, its toes latched onto my finger and wouldn't let go. It had just knocked itself unconscious...i carried it around the yard for a few minutes than put it in the hollow of the old maple tree in the front yard. It laid there for a few minutes and then flew away...the larger the bird the more likely it is to survive crashing into a window...
We figured out it was usually after we cleaned the windows. soooooo, good excuse to not clean the storm windows...its saved many a birds life...A few of the birds I had to look up in a bird book.....
To: nuconvert
"... we can only assume that it had flown away probably suffering from a headache."Ya think?
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posted on
07/15/2011 6:39:23 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: goat granny
One of my Dad’s homes had half a dozen pheasants fly into the front room window almost every summer. The majority of them broke their necks. They became supper and dry fly fishing hooks.
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posted on
07/15/2011 6:41:04 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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