“Patience? Heck, I’m Gonna Kill Something”
The original t-shirt was considerably more rude, but the two cartoon vultures may have been prescient. It seems that vultures in Spain are no longer waiting for things to die. They are killing living animals, in one case bringing down a cow and a calf with one swarm of over 100 birds. Paging Alfred Hitchcock.
In one incident, about 100 vultures killed a cow and her newborn calf, a rancher from the Mena Valley said, according to the Spanish government's office in Burgos, quoted by state news agency EFE.
Ranchers have complained that vultures started attacking livestock several months ago when a feeding station set up in the Ordunte mountains was closed by the neighbouring province of Vizcaya. Vultures prefer to feed on the carcasses of dead animals, but carrion is scarce in modern Spain.
How long until a human becomes the blue plate special is anyone's guess. Remember, when you're in a car, vultures spotting you are thinking peasant under glass.
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Blue Crab Boulevard » On The Wings Of Vultures — Monday, 7 May , 2007 @ 1:37 pm
By BlogDog, Thursday, 3 May , 2007 @ 12:20 pm
Well, as the song (http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=12543)
has it, The Lord’ll Provide.
By feeblemind, Thursday, 3 May , 2007 @ 1:41 pm
Peasant under glass??? ohhhh……groan. But funny.
By Purple Avenger, Thursday, 3 May , 2007 @ 6:38 pm
Time are tough. I hear they’ve started dealing crack too.
By skh.pcola, Thursday, 3 May , 2007 @ 7:31 pm
Why does this dubious crap always happen in some rinky-dink burg that 99.44% of the earth’s population has never heard of? This sounds like one of those stories that comes right after one entitled, “Yeti Eats Whole Field of Corn!”