I was driving to Calgary, enjoying the beauty that was today, and singing at the top of my lungs when unsuspecting Jessica intercepted unsuspecting bird and THWAP! I screamed, nearly drove off the road and died a little on the inside (I'm sure you all remember the chicken packing incident...I don't do well with birds). I thought perhaps he had hit and fallen off my car, until I glanced over my dash and saw a little floppy bird foot peeking over the hood. At first opportunity I stopped to take a look and discovered little Fredrick (affectionately named by Molly and myself...pronounced Fred-Riech) with his head jammed into a tiny slot in my grill and the rest of his body hanging limply benieth. I'm pretty sure that's not natural.
I felt really, really bad.....you might be able to see a single tear pooling in the corner of my eye.
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BIRD KILLER!!!! BIRD KILLER!!! MURDERER!!!
I feel like chicken tonight!
awwwwwww... I hate hitting birds, I feel so bad. Poor birdie. I never feel sorry for chickens though... far as I'm concerned, they're evil.
how did you get the bird out of there?
seriously? how?
i'm gonna need therapy now, jess. walking out of artistry to seeing poor little fredrick, his wee feathers fluttering in the wind, was just too much for sensitive lil' ol' me...*sniff*
um, and todd wants to know how you're gonna get the poor thing out of there? he figures your facial expression tells everyone you ain't touchin' that bird!
You're good Kim...you're good. There WAS no way I was touching that thing! I called up Daryl and he put on gloves and prodded little Fredrick's head out of the slots. I thought his head was going to rip off!! I was hiding behind a tree 'watching' Daryl do the deed.
Yeah. I hate killing the birds, too. Not enough to stop driving, though!
Ha..hahaha...sorry... most or actually at ALL times when a poor and helpless critter is killed... i find it quite humorous! (I'm sick animal killer, I know!)
No worries Jess... I swerve on purpose when driving so as to try and HIT as many unsuspecting & helpless rodents as I can. No luck thus far... one day soon though! Birds are hard to hit though... you must have mad animal killing skills!
Maybe I should just aim for the larger animals... like a mooses (meese)... at least they're easier to hit...
Wow jess, thats like 50 points. That's just 5 points under a hitch-hiker.
hmm... its like his head is in a jail cell. what if he was still conscious but paralyzed? and he had to watch as daryl ripped his cold twitching body from that caged claustrophic abyss... and then was merely discarded in the hot sun, waiting alone to die... next to the worms he used to eat - now they would eat him. (ok, that was really morbid. ugh). ~
Ew! That was morbid...
morbid, yes. Delightful, YES.
ah jess I totally understand how you feel. A few weeks ago driving home from calgary I hit a duck! and I couldn't stop so as I kept driving I had to watch him in my rearview mirror in the last throes of death. I felt so horrible for the rest of the way home and when I burst into the house to tell my parents of the evil deed, they laughed!!
Do you find it a tad disturbing that the most blog comments you've recieved so far, have been about your post about a dead bird. Hmmm, what does that say about your faithful readers? Growing up on the prairies I've hit many a wild beast: deer, porcupine, gophers, birds. All of them disturbing and some quite messy. Not to mention the millions of grasshoppers. I'll leave my comment at that.
we should all keep commenting until this post reaches record numbers. like... 26 comments or something. one post with a ridiculous number of comments - so come one, come all - comment on whatever you wish! - why not write mini-blog posts in here?? we'll see just how outrageous the number can become! (or you could simply slice into the html and replace the dynamic content with say... "20039 comments"...that's probably simpler)
Oh Jess.........
Dan took out a nice lil duck a while ago with my parent's car. Ugggg..
Glad to see that you made it through alright!
Looks like others also have had run ins with birdies. Crazy wild life don't they know they are to get out of the way. LOL :-)
I have nothing philisophical to say, I just wanted to brag that I got to see Fredrick in the flesh. I dated a guy named Fredrick once!
Nice hit!! Thats 10 points for hitting it, and another 300 for getting his head stuck in your grill. Thats awesome!!
We saw Pirates Of The Caribean 2 on Friday! You should totally go see it!!
Meadow
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