The other day I saw a pigeon die.
It was AWFUL.
I was driving home, and a few streets from my place I found myself about 30m behind a car. I thought I saw the driver throw something out the left window, and I got angry. Then I realised that something had hit the car instead, and that what I thought had been chucked out the window, was in fact a pigeon's decapitated head rebounding off the car's side after the impact of hitting the car.
I felt sick as I got closer towards the carnage. I could see the pigeon's body on the roadside, and the lil head lying a few metres away. I veered my car onto the other side of the road to avoid it.
A part of me wanted to go back and view the remains, perhaps pick them up and bury them. But I was dry-heaving on the way home.
It was such a shock. One second alive. The next, decapitated after colliding with the moving vehicle.
3 comments:
Yuck, poor thing. May he be reborn as a hawk, so he can escape next time! A friend here was riding his BICYCLE recently and a super slow pigeon left things too late to get out of the way, & flew straight up, thump! into his chest! Weird. Maybe pigeons are getting dumber.
omg - a pigeon murder. I hit a bird once, i was in 2 lanes of traffic and couldn't swerve - but slowed down to about 15 so I think it might have got away. Don't like to think about the poor little thing. I hate seeing anything dead at the side of the road :(
Maybe this link I'm gonna give you will make you feel better.
Why not visit http://barcode.deedah.org/pigeons
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