[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]

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[Keith]

Janene Garofolo raised her armpits.

[Dallas59]

BUSH'S FAULT!

[InvisibleChurch]

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

[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.

[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.

[I see my hands]

Poor birdies :(

[FReepaholic]

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

[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.

[hoosiermama]

Dinner?

[Jet Jaguar]

Heads up.