The Iringa Pidgeon Massacre

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.