AND FINALLY
"He's gone to the big chookery in the sky," senior sergeant Ian Freeman, of Christchurch police, told the NZPA news service after an hour-long standoff between a New Zealand rooster and bomb disposal experts came to an abrupt end.
A member of the public had noticed the bird acting suspiciously and reported him to the police. Officers cornered the "tooled up" bird - who had two canisters with wires poking out of them taped under his wings - in a driveway.
The neighbouring house was evacuated, and bomb disposal experts were summoned to assess the threat. X-rays proved inconclusive and the rooster was shot, although his canisters turned out to be harmless. His fate, sergeant Freeman warned local residents, was a lesson to people who played practical jokes with animals.
I don't see *people* learning any lesson here.
The lesson seems to me to be what awaits animals that/who are unlucky enough to find themselves requisitioned by persons to play(sic) a role in practical jokes.
If Hamas can't afford Predators (Boeing type...),m who knows? maybe they *will* come up with suicide birds (avian variety). They may supplement their arsenal of burqa bombers with bird bombers....
But there's another aspect to this. My little Misu Maine Coon cat is a little "sweetheart" -- a 13 pound ball of fluff, who often looks like a big wooly caterpillar.... I suspect Misu has so little sense of reality (i.e., of what can hurt you) that she wouldn't run away from a dubious stranger, etc. The best are, as I have previously noted, not always the strongest, and orchids wouldn't fare well in a global thermonuclear holocaust -- or even if their owner just couldn't get home every night or the power went out or....
Civilization enables unnatural things to come into the world and endure -- for better and, alas but undeniably, for worse.
\brad mccormick
(from the Guardian's e-mail "Informer" / 11June03)
best wishes,
SS
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