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Austin shuts downtown after dead birds discovered..

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead in the streets, but officials said preliminary tests showed no dangerous chemicals in the air.

 

[Headbanger]

A Texas HERF gone bad?

 

[Mikes]

Cigar smokers revolt against smoking ban!!!!

I got the email to go downtown last night and join in on the fun but passed.

 

[calebnobbe2003]

:rofl:

 

[MichiganM]

That's awfully strange...would be nice to get a second opinion on the toxicity of the local air...

Wonder if it's some kind of strange outbreak of some kind?

:dunno:

 

[jmatkins]

And more weird happening in NYC.

NYC Mayor: Gas Odor Not From Leak Or Terrorism
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/08/nyc.odor/index.html

 

[MichiganM]

Now something strange in New York...I'm reading the story on CNN.

Is it just me, or does something seem strange? How can you get a "smell" that spreads that far. They were saying it can be smelled for 10 miles.

 

[Wasch_24]

Also C4 detected in suspicious item in the port of Miami.

 

[Boppa-Wasch]

More detection device's needed?

 

[CWS]

:squinteye Aliens :squinteye

or

Communication Towers
Bird Deaths a year: 4 to 10 million
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that bird collisions with tall, lighted communications towers, and their guy wires result in 4 to 10 million bird deaths a year.

Agriculture
Bird Deaths a year: 67 million
Pesticides likely poison an estimated 67 million birds per year according to the Smithsonian Institution. Cutting hay may kill up to a million more birds a year

 

[AZsteelman]

man, I farted this morning and it was bad, but this is ridiculous!

 

[Boppa-Wasch]

man, I farted this morning and it was bad, but this is ridiculous!

Damn....Wind has been out of the West all day today......:cryloud:

 

[cvm4]

Pretty crazy really...More indepth info. should be coming soon.

 

[MichiganM]

man, I farted this morning and it was bad, but this is ridiculous!

I knew it all along....I was actually praying I woudn't get a wiff of it!

:closedmou

:hysterica

 

[williegstyles]

Yeh I know...When I first saw it this morning my immediate thought was ...How can I use this to my advantage and NOT go into work today? Then I realized that I work 30 miles south of downtown of Austin!

 

[CWS]

:hysterica :hysterica :stretchgr

 

[BradMc]

man, I farted this morning and it was bad, but this is ridiculous!

:rofl: :dunno:

 

[caudio51]

Did they ever find out what happened?

 

[CWS]

Dick Cheny :rolling: :rolling: :rolling:

 

[caudio51]

:rofl:

Very funny