up to 5000 birds dead - Arkansas

[TeHashu]

Over 1,000 lifeless birds tragically fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. In an interview with AP, an expert with the state’s Livestock and Poultry Commission suggested “the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail.” The Commission offered another sad possibility, that New Year’s Eve fireworks could have gone off near the birds and startled them so severely, that they died from stress.

The Hitchcock-like scene left many in the local town bewildered and saddened that the ball was not the only thing to drop from the sky on New Year’s Eve.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/this-exists-a-1000-dead-birds-fall-on-small-arkansas-town-on-new-years-eve/

oTKoAeXARZw

youtube link not working for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTKoAeXARZw

[l/l/rX]

well they just beat the oil sands out in 1 day. Congrats. :D :rofl:

[chongkee_]

Almost the same thing just happened in Louisiana.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/birds-fall-from-sky-louisiana_n_804196.html

[3drian]

fireworks!

[ipeefreely]

Ban fireworks? :dunno:

[bituerbo]

Scientific experiments... Anyone else watch Flashforward?

[Xtrema]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/kfsm-mysterious-death-of-birds-fish-01032011,0,3701037.story

Well, how do they explain the 100K fish?

And what's so special about this year's firework compare to years in the past?

[pinoyboy88]

I say aliens

[ZenOps]

I blame Rob Anders.

[LadyLuck]

Top U.S. Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a U.S. Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas this past week.

According to this report, John P. Wheeler III, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. from 2005-2008, when he became the Special Assistant to the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Logistics and Environment, was found brutally murdered and dumped in a landfill, and as we can read as reported by the Fox News Service:

Delaware Police are investigating the apparent murder of a former Bush official who also championed the fund-raising effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Wheeler’s body was found in Wilmington on Friday.

According to police, somebody initially reported that the body was dumped out of a refuse truck, which would have been coming from Newark, onto the landfill. Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall told Fox News that nobody had reported Wheeler missing before he was found.

The Wilmington News Journal reported that Wheeler was last seen riding an Amtrak train from Washington to Wilmington, Del., last Tuesday.

Read on... (http://inteltrends.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/top-u-s-official-murdered-after-arkansas-weapons-test-causes-mass-death/)

[old&slow]

Happened again!

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Birds+fall+from+again+this+time+Louisiana/4058128/story.html

[shakalaka]

What the hell is happening?

[supe]

First birds, then fish, whats next???

[gretz]

Originally posted by old&slow
Happened again!

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Birds+fall+from+again+this+time+Louisiana/4058128/story.html

lol... I like in the report where it reads, "Because blackbirds have poor night vision they may have died after bumping into houses, trees and other birds in their fright.

Arkansas officials said preliminary testing showed no signs of disease in the dead birds and that they died of "acute physical trauma."

There, that explains it, all of the dead birds and fish may have died from bumping into houses, trees, and each other. They have "no idea" what caused this, but they are certain the two are unrelated...

They died of acute physical trauma? They fell out of the fucking sky lol... Good reporting there, stay classy sandiego

[GQBalla]

the world is dying

[Graham_A_M]

^ The stupidity of the folk from SE states never ceases to amaze me.

[derpderp]

I did it with my mind

[Cos]

Originally posted by LadyLuck


Read on... (http://inteltrends.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/top-u-s-official-murdered-after-arkansas-weapons-test-causes-mass-death/)

Holy F

[calgary403]

It's a warning that we're approaching 2012 . THE END IS NIGH!!!!

[01RedDX]

.

[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by Cos


Holy F

I don't know what to make of this... clearly that is bullshit, right?

[SkittleFreak]

Originally posted by 01RedDX
Even god is playing Angry Birds.

No dead pigs though

[Kritafo]

and again in KENT ISLAND, Md

http://www.wbaltv.com/r/26357581/detail.html

and again in Brazil

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parana-online.com.br%2Feditoria%2Fcidades%2Fnews%2F502434%2F%3Fnoticia%3DMORTANDADE%2BMISTERIOSA%2BDE%2BPEIXES%2BNO%2BLITORAL&act=url

[Donmega]

Lol @ angry birds.

[Canmorite]

That's really messed up. The article with the killing of a top US official is crazy...

[89s1]

Man, thats fucked up

[eblend]

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The_Core_Poster.jpg

[Kritafo]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/12/30/victoria-river-mysteriously-turns-bright-green/

Canadian River Turns bright green!

http://www.wftv.com/news/26367953/detail.html

More dead fish in Florida

Dead fish in Sarnia ON

http://theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2914777

[l/l/rX]

Originally posted by Kritafo
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/12/30/victoria-river-mysteriously-turns-bright-green/

Canadian River Turns bright green!


This was supposedly a prank. They think someone poured a whole bunch of water testing solution into the river which made it turn green. Not harmful to the fish and what not. Theres a thread somewhere here.

[ZorroAMG]

Originally posted by SkittleFreak


No dead pigs though

Clearly God is a noob at angry birds. Give him a day or two.

[03ozwhip]

independance day meets war of the worlds. birds are flying into invisible UFO's force fields and falling from the sky. yup, aliens are our demise for 2012. lol

seriously though this is pretty fucked up, it definitely makes you think more about the shit you hear about 2012 or may 21 2011 that the aritcal is stating.

[n1zm0]

did anyone hear about how the bumblee population in the US fell 96% :nut:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/4/933430/-U.S-Bumble-bee-Population-Implodes,-Drops-96


So, 5 days into this year and this has happened so far, ...2012 o_0? more dead birds in Texas and Kentucky

Birds have been dying off all week. There were the original gangsters in Arkansas, then their copycats in Louisiana. And now there's a threepeat in East Texas and a fourpeat in Kentucky.

Not to be outdone by their mortal enemies, fish have decided to die in vast numbers just like the birds. In God-cursed Arkansas and Satan-blessed Florida. I know this is a common occurrence or whatever, but still.

And what's with the more than 40,000 crabs that have washed up on English beaches in recent days? They died of hypothermia, so it's probably a sign that all the ice caps are still melting, making the water colder, and soon we'll be battling computerwolves alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. (Doesn't sound too bad, actually.)

The terrible flood waters in Australia apparently contain lots of poisonous snakes and crocodiles. But not dead ones. Living, biting ones. So that's great for everyone.

Rivers are turning green for no reason. (Update: Oh, phew. It looks like this was just a prank. Maybe everything else is too??)
The bumblebees are pretty much all gone at this point.

In non-animal related bad news, the 112th Congress starts school today, with a John Boehner-led Republican House that is hell-bent on taking away your health care and injecting you with yellow fever.

Oh, and speaking of evil Republicans, inhuman monster Dick Cheney has no pulse but is still trucking along, writing books and sporting a new lease on not-life. Meanwhile his underworld bride who will reign with him for a thousand years after the Great Fires, Michele Bachmann, might run for president. Terrific.

A guy in a wheelchair was shot by police in San Francisco.

It's really cold. There was snow in LA on Monday! And in Las Vegas, too!

Other awful, non-Congress things that are back this week? The Bachelor and radical Iraqi cleric Moktada al-Sadr. Coincidence? I think not.

Oh look. Lots and lots more dead fish.

Jim Carrey got old. That's not a huge tragedy, but, y'know. Time.

links to the stories are here (http://gawker.com/5725552/is-this-the-end-of-the-world)

[CUG]

Originally posted by l/l/rX
well they just beat the oil sands out in 1 day. Congrats. :D :rofl: FATALITY.

[spike98]

Originally posted by n1zm0
did anyone hear about how the bumblee population in the US fell 96% :nut:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/4/933430/-U.S-Bumble-bee-Population-Implodes,-Drops-96


So, 5 days into this year and this has happened so far, ...2012 o_0? more dead birds in Texas and Kentucky

Birds have been dying off all week. There were the original gangsters in Arkansas, then their copycats in Louisiana. And now there's a threepeat in East Texas and a fourpeat in Kentucky.

Not to be outdone by their mortal enemies, fish have decided to die in vast numbers just like the birds. In God-cursed Arkansas and Satan-blessed Florida. I know this is a common occurrence or whatever, but still.

And what's with the more than 40,000 crabs that have washed up on English beaches in recent days? They died of hypothermia, so it's probably a sign that all the ice caps are still melting, making the water colder, and soon we'll be battling computerwolves alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. (Doesn't sound too bad, actually.)

The terrible flood waters in Australia apparently contain lots of poisonous snakes and crocodiles. But not dead ones. Living, biting ones. So that's great for everyone.

Rivers are turning green for no reason. (Update: Oh, phew. It looks like this was just a prank. Maybe everything else is too??)
The bumblebees are pretty much all gone at this point.

In non-animal related bad news, the 112th Congress starts school today, with a John Boehner-led Republican House that is hell-bent on taking away your health care and injecting you with yellow fever.

Oh, and speaking of evil Republicans, inhuman monster Dick Cheney has no pulse but is still trucking along, writing books and sporting a new lease on not-life. Meanwhile his underworld bride who will reign with him for a thousand years after the Great Fires, Michele Bachmann, might run for president. Terrific.

A guy in a wheelchair was shot by police in San Francisco.

It's really cold. There was snow in LA on Monday! And in Las Vegas, too!

Other awful, non-Congress things that are back this week? The Bachelor and radical Iraqi cleric Moktada al-Sadr. Coincidence? I think not.

Oh look. Lots and lots more dead fish.

Jim Carrey got old. That's not a huge tragedy, but, y'know. Time.

links to the stories are here (http://gawker.com/5725552/is-this-the-end-of-the-world)

I thought i blocked ZenOps :dunno:

[rage2]

It was fireworks.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-01-05-arkansas-dead-birds-fireworks_N.htm


It wasn't a secret government spraying program, Martians or gas seeping out of the New Madrid fault that killed the 5,000 or so blackbirds that died New Year's Eve in Beebe, Ark.
It was someone shooting off professional grade fireworks in a residential district, scaring the night-blind birds out of their roost into a 25-mph flight that ran them into houses, signs and even the ground, says Karen Rowe, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist.

"They were bouncing off houses, basketball backboards, trucks," she says.

Rowe made her observations Wednesday as Game and Fish officials got back further results from necropsies on the dead birds. The findings have given Rowe and others enough confidence in their original conclusions that they were having fun with some of the other theories floating about.

Separate bird deaths were also reported this week in Louisiana, where 450 died, and in Kentucky last week, where hundreds more were found dead.

"Someone shot off 10 to 12 professional-type fireworks near the roost," she says. Wayne Ballew, Beebe's chief of police, lives nearby. He reported that they "shook the windows on his house," she says.

Rowe has talked with residents who live in the neighborhood where the birds were found and they all reported the loud booms at that time.

At that point, the flock, which could easily numbers in the tens of thousands, took to the air.

It was actually composed of both red-winged blackbirds and European starlings, which commonly roost together.

Unfortunately for the birds, both blackbirds and starlings "have extremely limited night vision," says Robert Meese, an avian ecologist at the University of California-Davis who studies a related blackbird species.

In addition, neighbors were also setting off fireworks and bottle rockets, which further confused the birds who were now madly trying to get back to their safe perches, Rowe says.

"I talked to individuals who were outside when the birds started crashing into things," she says. After the birds took flight they would have been completely disoriented and flying at a high rate of speed, "most likely about 25 mph, given my experience with their cousins, the tricolored blackbird," Meese says.

They would have flown up into the air, then back down looking for a safe place to roost.

"This rapid descent of living birds crashing into these multiple obstacles then caused the loud noises reported by the residents of Beebe, especially those that flew into rooftops or walls of houses," Meese says. "This also accounts for the blunt force trauma to the breasts."

Perhaps most importantly, Meese says, the spatial distribution of the carcasses on the ground is what would be expected from a flock of blackbirds in flight, relatively close together and not scattered over many miles.

The necropsies performed by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission found trauma to the chest, hemorrhages to the chest and the leading edge of the birds' wings broken, Rowe says.

"What seems like a deep mystery likely is not, and if this had occurred out in the middle of a wheat or corn field instead of in a suburban area, we'd probably never have been aware of it," Meese says.

State officials originally put the number of birds dead at around 3,000, but a more systematic count, and estimates of those taken by scavengers, puts it closer to 5,000, Rowe says.

The story of dead blackbirds raining down from the sky in a small Arkansas town, hitting as it did on a slow news week, caused a huge stir that still surprises state officials.

"I'm keeping a list of the most bizarre theories," Rowe says. So far they include:

• Aliens
• Noxious gases seeping out of the nearby New Madrid fault, cause of a massive earthquake in the area in 1812
• Sonic booms
• Fumes from a gas plant in Mississippi
• The government spraying poison over Beebe

And Meese adds these:
• Black helicopters (covert, unmarked military aircraft)
• Tornadoes

But it's taught Rowe that she and other wildlife experts need to do a better job of educating the public about the fact that wild animals die all the time. A bird that manages to hatch and leave the nest still has only a 70% chance of making it to its first birthday, she points out.

"Birds don't go to the bird hospital and get put on life support and die there. They just die. Mother Nature is not a nice lady," she says.

[gretz]

Its an interesting conclusion... I guess thats why every time people / events that are setting off professional grade / bright and loud fireworks at night they have mass bird deaths...lol

[Xtrema]

http://i.imgur.com/Og6DC.jpg

[03ozwhip]

Originally posted by rage2
It was fireworks.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-01-05-arkansas-dead-birds-fireworks_N.htm



bullshit. they always have some sort of excuse. since when do 5000 birds flock together at all times? and coincidentally this is the only time that birds were killed from "fireworks". come on are people really believing that shit?

its aliens

/end thread

lol but really fireworks?

[derpderp]

They found more dead birds and fish around the world now, people keep on talking about it.

Is it just coincidence? Me thinks that the media might just be reporting something they otherwise not cared about a few weeks ago, which is making it seem like its super eerie that they found 5000 dead birds in one place, then fish, then dead birds and fish in Sweden and South America etc.

[Kritafo]

8,000 + turtle doves rained down on Italian town.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/Animal-death-mystery-Two-MILLION-dead-fish-wash-Maryland-bay.html

[JfuckinC]

hahaha this is fucked...

[LadyLuck]

40,000 dead crabs washed up on shore now too

source (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/916503--40-000-crabs-join-slew-of-animal-death-mysteries)

time to freak out yet?

[LollerBrader]

Originally posted by spike98

did anyone hear about how the bumblee population in the US fell 96%

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2...lodes,-Drops-96

FAIL.

According to the article, the bumble bee population has declined 96% *OVER FOUR DECADES*.

Numerous animals have experienced similar levels of attrition OVER THE LAST FOUR DECADES.

[gretz]

Originally posted by LadyLuck
40,000 dead crabs washed up on shore now too

source (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/916503--40-000-crabs-join-slew-of-animal-death-mysteries)

time to freak out yet?

Its from fireworks, or the water changing 1 degree in temperature, or the north pole shifting, or high altitude flight, or poor night vision causing crabs to crash into the shore...

I like to picture scientists throwing darts a a board or using their "jump-to-conclusions" rug to come up with this shit...

[n1zm0]

heres a world plotter of all the animal deaths

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201817256339889828327.0004991bca25af104a22b

almost all the american ones are mostly in the bible belt... coincidentally :poosie:

[Masked Bandit]

It won't be long before the bird / fish zombies start up. Git ur shootin' stix ready!

[J-WESS]

Whatever is causing this needs to make it's way to Calgary to take care of some of the pesky magpies!!!

[Kritafo]

Originally posted by J-WESS
Whatever is causing this needs to make it's way to Calgary to take care of some of the pesky magpies!!!

Agreed.

[CHICHARITZHI]

the world is full of mess so we are next..

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4%3A1-3&version=NIV

[calgary403]

Something similar happening in Quebec:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Dozens+birds+found+dead+near+Quebec+City/4077033/story.html

[Cos]

what the fuck is going on.

[01RedDX]

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[Supa Dexta]

Different places are just doing this to get their time in the spot light.. Trendy bastards!

[JfuckinC]

Bird/Fish flu epidemic! Thankfully i only eat different types of the species than what's dying :D

[old&slow]

Aflockalypse?

[HiTempguy1]

Anybody hear anymore news on the politician's body found in the dump?

[CHICHARITZHI]

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zephaniah+1-3&version=NIV

[911fever]

Originally posted by CHICHARITZHI
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zephaniah+1-3&version=NIV

so interesting.

[[Yu]]

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet.

Perhaps, these events happen fairly often, and it has not been up until now that they are getting media coverage.

Now that everyone is broadcasting all these events, it appears as though it is the coming "Apocalypse", but this all just seems ridiculously silly to me.

[Cos]

Originally posted by CHICHARITZHI
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zephaniah+1-3&version=NIV

I have been hearing about the end times since 1996. Slow process

[Masked Bandit]

Originally posted by old&slow
Aflockalypse?

Slow clap...