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    So you're driving down a street and you see a bird sitting at the edge of the road. At the last possible moment the bird decides to not only fly at the last possible second, but it flies in the direct path of all oncoming cars! I can't count how many times I have seen that happen. Why do they do this? What is up with that?

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    I don't know. Another thing I don't know about birds is why they constantly feel the need to chirp and tweet. Being a bird must be great. What with all the tweeting and chirping, and the daily eating of worms, not to mention having weird old men look at you through binnoculars.

    ...actually that doesn't sound too different from my life as it is now.

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    That is really weird actually. I think it's a cult thing.
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    Most of the birds around here are pretty streetwise, I guess. They'll get out of your way pretty quick.

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    some birds are just stupid

    is there anibody out there?

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    At a guess, it could have something to do with the fact that birds that have eyes on either side of their head rather than in front of their head are unable to figure out how far away objects are. That's something you needs two eyes in front of your head for, if I remember rightly.

    Either that or they've been involved in some kind of suicide pact.

    Or they're playing chicken. Or whatever it is that they call playing chicken.
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    I've never seena bird actually be hit by a car. Maybe the birds in your area are just stupid. Must be something in the water there.

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    Squirrels are just as lucky at times...although sometimes they are not fast enough. *mush*

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    Yeah, if it were monkeys they'd be able to get out of the way quicker. (but not from me because I'd speed up)

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    our birds fly into glass doors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meat Puppet
    Yeah, if it were monkeys they'd be able to get out of the way quicker. (but not from me because I'd speed up)
    Nah cars actually try to avoid us for some reason so if I stand in the middle of the road it's the cars that swerve out of the way and go into ditches and blow up o_0

    I like birds, please don't run them over. o_<


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    dead monkeys make cars dirty, dead birds decorate it, like trophies

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    They're breaking the codes! They're looking for reasons to gather together armies and troops of pooper pidgeons and snapping seagulls.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rubah
    our birds fly into glass doors.
    So this one time for like five or six years every winter this cardinal came to our house and would sit on the back of one of our porch rockers in front of our picture window and stare at itself and then try to attack itself for hours on end.

    Every winter.

    For FIVE years.

    I hated that bird.

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    I despise birds. They crap on my windows.

    They musn't have periphial vision.

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