Crows congregate in our downtown area nightly. They crap so much that the sidewalks get slick. City crews fired shotgun blanks and fireworks to drive them out of the trees in the Loop. They flew away and never died from the fireworks going off. Not one.
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you gotta love all the scientists, and genious's with their fireworks theory. you just have to ask yourself if the fire works caused it, why doesnt this happen every new year, and every fourth of july?!! dumbazz's!
Their innards were liquefied. Fireworks and hail doesn't do that. They also use a starlicide every year to kill starlings which are pests in numbers. So we are going to bug out and live off the land HUH?
Their innards were liquefied. Fireworks and hail doesn't do that. They also use a starlicide every year to kill starlings which are pests in numbers. So we are going to bug out and live off the land HUH?
Just don't eat the black birds you find on the ground.
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All of these bird die offs have one thing in common costal water . It dont take a genius to figure that out . So when we start seeing east coast human casualties don't be suprised .
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All of these bird die offs have one thing in common costal water . It dont take a genius to figure that out . So when we start seeing east coast human casualties don't be suprised .
Redwing blackbirds do nest near water so you may be on to something there. Better hope the next ones aren't pelicans. Those things could hurt falling on someone.
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here's what I found from the Popular Science media. they are not saying the fireworks killed the birds directly, but may have been a factor in them taking flight at night, when something else happened. See the article. Blunt force trauma, not liquid innards.
I remember hearing it a bit differently. I think they were filming close to the area that the A-bombs were tested and were exposed to radiation. Not really confirmed though.
The movie in question is The Conqueror, with the Duke playing Genghis Khan opposite Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorhead and William Conrad. It's derided as one of the worst Hollywood movies ever made, certainly the worst John Wayne movie ever made. The movie was shot in Utah, downwind from the atomic bomb test sites out in the desert. There was quite a lot of fallout present in the soil where Dick Powell shot the exteriors, which RKO Radio Pictures did not realize at the time. Howard Hughes paid to have 60 tons of dirt from the location brought back to the studio for matching the interior shots, which brought back the radioactive material along with the dirt. The cast and crew spent nearly 3 months breathing in dust kicked up by ordinary filming, some of which was radioactive.
Over the course of the next 20 years, nearly half the cast and crew came down with cancers of one sort or another, including director Dick Powell and all the principal stars of the movie, except William Conrad. 220 people were involved in the shoot; almost 100 of them contacted cancer. Cancer killed a bunch of that 100 people. It's way too many deaths for it to be mere coincidence.
Howard Hughes certainly felt responsible for it. When the cancer cases started to turn up, he spent a LOT of money to buy up every print of The Conqueror that existed and locked them away. It was the last picture he ever produced. When the story broke, for awhile RKO was known as "RKO Radioactive Pictures." The scandal had something to do with Hughes selling the studio to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. He just wanted to get out of the biz and leave the guilt behind.
don't you mean Dec. 21st 2012?
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