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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Backyard National Geographic 

I was talking with Scott this afternoon while standing on my back deck, doing my best to stay dry. (Will this fucking rain/cold/shitty weather ever fucking end?!? FUCK!!!!) I was watching the birds feast at the bird feeders in my neighbor’s yard. It was a bunch of small birds, sparrows or some shit. Next thing I see is a couple of bigger black birds swoop down to the feeder. Not sure what kind of birds they were but they were much too small to be crows. One of the black birds attacks one of the sparrows, they are fighting in the air then they are fighting on the ground. Blackie gets the upper hand (or wing) and starts kicking the shit out of sparrow. Jab Jab with the beak. Sparrow struggles to survive, tries to fight back or at least get away. Jab jab again. Sparrow struggles no more. Blackie starts chowing down on dinner. I can see bits of feather in his bill. Then one of the neighborhood cats (a fat black one) pounces into the yard. This causes all the birds to scatter up into the trees where they chirp angrily. It lurks under the back steps of my neighbor...waiting. Eventually another cat comes into the yard (a fat white beast with a black tail). The black cat eventually slinks out from under the stairs. The black cat and the white beast stare each other down. Black cat turns its back on the intruder walks over to where Sparrow lies dead in the grass and walks away in triumph with a meal in his maw.


Peace out.

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Snakes on a motha fuckin plane! For real..... 

Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit
June 3, 2006


CHARLESTON, W.Va. --Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air when he discovered a stowaway peeking out at him from the plane's instrument panel: a 4 1/2-foot snake.

Coles was taking a leisurely flight over the West Virginia countryside in his Piper Cherokee last weekend and was preparing to land in Ohio when the snake revealed itself.

"Nothing in any of the manuals ever described anything like this," said the 62-year-old Cross Lanes resident.

But advice given 25 years earlier from his flight instructor sprung to mind: "No matter what happens, fly the plane."

Coles attempted to swat the snake but it fell to the pilot's feet, then darted to the other side of the cockpit.

While maintaining control of the single-engine plane with one hand, Coles grabbed the reptile behind its head with his other.

"There was no way I was letting that thing go," he said. "It coiled all around my arm, and its tail grabbed hold of a lever on the floor and started pulling."

The next step was to radio for emergency landing clearance.

"They came back and asked what my problem was," he said. "I told them I had one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane. They cleared me in."

After a smooth landing, Coles posed for pictures with the snake, then let it loose.

"That snake resides in Ohio now," he said.



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