Arkansas more F*CKED up than we thought

[PaulGreco]

Didn't see this on the board, thought I'd share
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads

http://l.yimg.com/lk/api/res/1.2/33XVbzBrspqdQ0SEQzX3Hw--/YXBwaWQ9eW1lZGlhO2g9MTQzO3c9MzAw/http://mit.zenfs.com/102/2011/01/Picture-1.png (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=11gmq1pu4/*http://mit.zenfs.com/102/2011/01/Picture-1.png)

Maybe the Mayans were on to something?

That's surely what students of the famed Mayan 2012 prophecy for the end of the world (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=11ef7kmkm/*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon) had to be thinking with the news of recent eerie wildlife die-offs in Arkansas. Just as the calendar nudged a year closer to that fateful date, birds began falling from the sky in Arkansas (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=13umkenac/*http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-02/us/arkansas.falling.birds_1_dead-birds-sick-bird-national-wildlife-health-center?_s=PM:US) and a massive fish kill occurred some 125 miles to the west (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=11mnssme6/*http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/02/arkansas.fish.kill/).

Roughly 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky over a mile of land near Beebe, a small town in northwest Arkansas, and observers spotted the fish kill near the town of Ozark

No one seems to know just yet what caused the two die-offs. But theories abound (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=11td075lu/*http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40885546/ns/us_news-weird_news/).

In a statement Saturday morning, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission quoted staff ornithologist Karen Rowe (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=11l30i1sr/*http://www.agfc.com/Pages/newsDetails.aspx?show=146) as saying that such events have happened before around the world: "Test results usually were inconclusive, but the birds showed physical trauma and that the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."

[Rewind: Haunting images of Gulf Coast oil spill (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=10nf3psq6/*http://yhoo.it/b6hQT9)]
Because it happened New Year's Eve, some officials suggest that revelers shooting fireworks may have spooked the birds, to the point that they died en masse from stress-induced cardiac arrest.
"It is unlikely they were poisoned," Rowe said, "but a necropsy is the only way to determine if the birds died from trauma or toxin." Tests were to begin Monday.

Meanwhile, wildlife officials say that the estimated 100,000 drum discovered by a tugboat captain over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River appears to be a natural occurrence that isn't tied to the bird kill in any way.


[Photos: Massive fish kill hits Louisiana (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=10n9c1ihm/*http://yhoo.it/eGoYf9)]
"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told CNN. "If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish." He added that fish kills in the area are common, though this one was larger than most.
UPDATE: A state veterinarian tells NBC (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads/39451432/SIG=10lctn33b/*http://twitter.com/#!/BreakingNews/status/21992299047157760) that preliminary necropsy results show that the birds died of "multiple blunt trauma to their vital organs."

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I remember a few years back when the birds in SA were getting drunk from some fermented berry and were dropping like flies as well. yikes and away!

[mrsmaalox]

I don't know, Paul.....I think this just shows Arkansas is less fucked up than we thought :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

It's Parker2112's poison contrails.

[Stringer_Bell]

It's Parker2112's poison contrails.

:rollin

But really, what in the blue fuck is causing blunt force trauma to birds so high in the sky?!!

[CuckingFunt]

:rollin

But really, what in the blue fuck is causing blunt force trauma to birds so high in the sky?!!

God.

[mrsmaalox]

:rollin

But really, what in the blue fuck is causing blunt force trauma to birds so high in the sky?!!

Some kind of force/blast knocked them into each other?

[Spurminator]

It's a sign.

http://media.knoxnews.com/media/img/photos/2010/12/01/120110billboard_t607.jpg
http://www.cvaas.org/images/billboardinfresno.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gsy-oLkurng/TRfmPsMfl5I/AAAAAAAABtc/2uu9t_baAcc/s1600/Billboard.jpg

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Isn't there an app called Angry Birds? Maybe it's manifesting itself.

[CosmicCowboy]

Isn't there an app called Angry Birds? Maybe it's manifesting itself.

:lol

So thats Arkansas I've been shooting those birds at?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Hmm. How about wind shear?

[jman3000]

It's a sign.

http://media.knoxnews.com/media/img/photos/2010/12/01/120110billboard_t607.jpg
http://www.cvaas.org/images/billboardinfresno.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gsy-oLkurng/TRfmPsMfl5I/AAAAAAAABtc/2uu9t_baAcc/s1600/Billboard.jpg

That creeps the fuck outta me because that's my birthday.

[EricB]

Some kind of wind storm i'd say.

[TacoCabanaFajitas]

Now a bunch of dead fish in the Ozarks? Wtf

[Glenn Holland]

http://www.kspr.com/news/local/kfsm-mysterious-death-of-birds-fish-01032011,0,41484.story

Mysterious Death of Birds, Fish Puzzle Arkansas Residents

[desflood]

They just had several tornados go through Arkansas and they can't figure out what may have caused the physically violent death of some birds? Really??

[desflood]

That creeps the fuck outta me because that's my birthday.
It's also my son's birthday. I always suspected that boy was the devil. Glad to hear it's you instead.

[RandomGuy]

The best theory is that these birds, who have very poor night vision and NEVER fly at night, simply ran into stuff when they were spooked by fireworks being shot off in the area for new years.

Nothing overly surprising about birds flying blind into things.

[dimsah]

It happened again in Louisiana 3 days after the Arkansas event.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/112843019.html

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Conspirators of the world, Psst Psst Psst Psst.

[boutons_deux]

I won't believe any (scientific) explanation until Pat Robertson sets us all Biblically straight.

[Chomag]

My best guess would be they got caught in hail in upper clouds or something.

The Fireworks theory is kind of laughable though. Last time I checked Arkansas is not the only place in the world that pops fireworks. If that was so there should be allot of dead birds everywhere.

Now the fish thing though, kind of a crazy coincidence. I don't know

[JudynTX]

Haarp?

[CosmicCowboy]

Natural fish kills are pretty common. The only fish affected were bottom feeders...my guess would be a temperature delta related oxygen depletion issue.

[RandomGuy]

My best guess would be they got caught in hail in upper clouds or something.

The Fireworks theory is kind of laughable though. Last time I checked Arkansas is not the only place in the world that pops fireworks. If that was so there should be allot of dead birds everywhere.

Now the fish thing though, kind of a crazy coincidence. I don't know

Those types of birds don't fly at night.

The only storm in the area happened at night.

For your theory to be correct, night-blind birds would have to be doing something that they have never been observed to do.

There are populations of these birds dying in similar manner in other areas as well.

As you pointed out, "if that was so" then the theory pans out.

Clumps of these kinds of birds do die in this manner all the time. As was recently reported in Louisiana.

[CosmicCowboy]

A couple of tree loads of sleeping blackbirds got sucked up in a tornado (maybe miles from there) and then dropped after it broke up.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

They probably haven't seen Magnolia.

[RandomGuy]

It's a sign.

http://media.knoxnews.com/media/img/photos/2010/12/01/120110billboard_t607.jpg
http://www.cvaas.org/images/billboardinfresno.jpg


I actually know someone who actively believes this. Or says he does at any rate.

He wouldn't sign over all of his earthly possessions to me when I asked, so I think even he doesn't quite believe it.


He has promised to tell me what he thinks happened come May 22 and we're all still here. "That won't happen man, but if it makes you happy, sure" :rolleyes

It wouldn't be the first group of people who convinced themselves the world was ending at date X. Heaven's Gate anyone? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group))

[JudynTX]

This is starting to sound like an episode of Fringe.

[Mark in Austin]

Blunt force trauma - like the kind that is caused when a bird falls out of the sky and hits the ground?

[HighLowLobForBig-50]

500 more found in louisiana
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/five-hundred-more-dead-blackbirds-louisiana-further-puzzle-investigators

[boutons_deux]

Can any of you "Christians" find these events as foretold in the Bible?

Come on, Pat Roberston, give us the low-down.

[CosmicCowboy]

Boutons, just kill yourself and quit wasting air with your "I hate the world and everything in it" bullshit.

[leemajors]

They probably haven't seen Magnolia.
That's probably a good thing. I turned it off.

[Sisk]

Blunt force trauma - like the kind that is caused when a bird falls out of the sky and hits the ground?

Can't remember the reasoning.. but they're saying they were dead before they hit the ground.

Boutons.. go back to the political forum. You're not allowed in The Club.

[Shelly]

It's a FLASH FORWARD episode coming to life!

yeah, i'm still bitter about it being cancelled.

[easjer]

It's a FLASH FORWARD episode coming to life!

yeah, i'm still bitter about it being cancelled.

Haha, I thought of you, Shelly, when I read it.

I miss it too. Not enough to pay $60 for the dvd set at X-mas, but still a lot.

[JudynTX]

More dead birds found in Sweden.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

More dead birds found in Sweden.
link

[JudynTX]

http://www.thelocal.se/31262/20110105/

[monosylab1k]

I guess in hindsight, we should have known all along the Hogs were gonna blow it in the Sugar Bowl.

[Jacob1983]

The birds falling from the sky reminded me of


http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4236/flashforward2.jpg

[Viva Las Espuelas]

It kinda reminds me of the WKRP turkey episode.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

http://www.thelocal.se/31262/20110105/
They're reporting the birds died from "sudden, hard external blows"
Lucky birds.......

[phxspurfan]

It's a sign.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gsy-oLkurng/TRfmPsMfl5I/AAAAAAAABtc/2uu9t_baAcc/s1600/Billboard.jpg

I get a kick out of things "burning" in space.

[JudynTX]

They're reporting the birds died from "sudden, hard external blows"
Lucky birds.......

Yeah, when they hit the ground. But what spooked them in the air?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Afraid of heights? <shrugs>

[JudynTX]

Afraid of heights? <shrugs>

:toast