Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot And Never Brought To…AAAAAAAAAGH!
If you’re like millions of other Americans, you spent New Year’s Eve among family or friends, happily ringing in 2012, wishing each other the very best of a fresh year. Or, you could have been one of the unfortunate folks in Beebe, Arkansas who had to spend the night in fear of getting brained by a crazed dive-bombing starling. No fooling.
Blackbirds have fallen dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town for the second New Year’s Eve in a row.
KATV showed a radar image that it said showed a large mass over Beebe a few hours before midnight Saturday. The Little Rock television station reported that hundreds of birds had died.
Beebe animal control worker Hearst Taylor told KATV the reason for the bird deaths isn’t yet known.
Last year’s mass bird suicide was probably caused by fireworks, which rousted the birds form their roots and sent them into panicked flight. They crashed into houses, poles, each other, and goodness knows what else and left the town wondering what happened. This year though, the local authorities put the kibosh on the fireworks show, so no one is exactly sure why the birds flew to their doom.
This puts me in mind of the classic song “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve”. You know, that last verse that goes:
Kissing at midnight, the moonlight in your eyes.
Ducking the rain of winged death from the skies.
What are you doing, New Year’s,
New Year’s Eve?
Good times. Good times.
(via the Twitter feed of my lovely friend and killer blogger GaltsGirl)
P.S. Yes, I resisted the easy Angry Birds references, even though this story takes place in Arkansas where, I am quite sure, you might find a pig or two. Admire my amazing self-restraint!
Other Posts of Interest:
- On America’s Birthday, the Declaration of Independence and Ray Charles
- The Strange Puzzle of North Dakota
- I Love You, America
Category: Huh? What??, The Good Old US of A
