Yesterday when driving through downtown Iringa at a respectable clip, a pigeon swooped in to land on the road directly between my front tires. This in itself was not newsworthy. What happened next includes a bit of speculation. I heard a thumpa-thumpa-thumpa sound beneath me and then glanced in my rear view mirror just in time to watch the dead and completely plucked bird be ejected in a white cloud of feathers into the car windshield behind me.
As best I can figure out, the bird made a slight mis-calculation (as you can imagine, since it landed in front of a moving car) and its body was sucked upwards into the whirling drive shaft, which efficiently killed, plucked, and tossed the bird backward.
Anyway, you'll have to forgive me if I say that it was one of the most comical moments of my life.
Sorry, no photos.
12 December 2007
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We'll add this to our "amusing roadkill stories" list.
hahaha...Shaffner stories never cease to amaze and amuse.
I know the feeling. Once I chased a bird in a mall parking lot. It was cool to see him flapping away right in front of my windshield matching my speed for a few seconds. He sped up and was right at the front of my hood, like a pigeon hood ornament. I wasn't going to be outdone by a bird, so I downshifted and egged him on. When he pealed off to the right and upward I lost sight of him and that was when my antenna bent back and snapped forward. Whacka whacka whacka whack! I bet he had a story to tell back at the nest...
hahahahahaha! that was great Paul!
This is hilarious!
Sad.
Sick.
And absolutely hilarious!
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