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Benedict Arnold

If you were attacked by a bird, what kind would be the most dangerous?

Posted - February 3, 2017
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  • 34280
    I think a eagle would be a big challenge.
      February 3, 2017 5:40 PM MST
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  • One of my sons flew his paraglider too close to an eagles aerie. The bird suggested that he might like to move and, while he was trying to get away, hit a down-draft, crashed the drive, chipped his spine, and spent more than a month in hospital. He's OK now and flying again. 
      February 3, 2017 5:47 PM MST
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  • 34280
    Glad he's OK.
      February 3, 2017 5:50 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Some Australian bird. :-)
      February 3, 2017 5:44 PM MST
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  • Oh, yeah. I would hate to irritate a cassowary. They've got no sense of humour at all and their claws could rip your stomach right out. 
      February 3, 2017 5:47 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Are they also on Tasmania?
      February 3, 2017 5:48 PM MST
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  • No, you'll be safe down there. Just keep away from the Tasmanian devils. 
      February 3, 2017 5:54 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Hmm. Seems all I need now is a kitty moving with me. Ahem.
      February 4, 2017 12:23 AM MST
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  • Garuda.
      February 3, 2017 6:10 PM MST
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  • 2327
    A kestrel will peck your eyes out.
    A buzzard will decapitate you with its  rocket speed and torpedo accuracy.
    A Tucan would hurt like a hammer with that massive beak.
    A magpie would rip your ear, nose, eyebrow, lip straight off.  
    Seagulls will gang up on you.
    Pigeons will scare you to death with a random burst of feathery flapping when you get too close.
    A parrot will talk you to death.
    And an eagle will pick you up and drop you off the edge of a cliff.  

    The winner: Pterodactyl. I would rather get killed by the Jeepers Creepers monster.
      February 3, 2017 6:10 PM MST
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  • 7683
    OMG you know so much about birds;))
      February 3, 2017 6:12 PM MST
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  • 2327
    That's why I'm the champ, V. I show it every single time I post! 

    only kidding. lol ;)
      February 3, 2017 7:14 PM MST
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  • Full marks and a big laugh from me. 

    I actually knew a guy who ended up in hospital following a magpie attack. The bird didn't put him there. He fell off his bike while he was trying to hit it with his pump.
      February 3, 2017 6:26 PM MST
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  • 2327
    Yeah, they're pretty horrible birds. 
      February 3, 2017 7:15 PM MST
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  • I like 'em. I was out triathlon training one afternoon when I felt a bump on my back and a car load of young guys came past, all of them laughing at me. I thought they'd thrown something. Then another car full of laughing kids. when I looked down at the road I could see the shadow of a magpie flapping over my back. It takes a lot o guts to attack something that much bigger than yoiu. 

    Mind you, I've lost skin to 'em at times, but I still like them. Admirable birds.
      February 3, 2017 8:08 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Any tiny angry bird with a sharp beak;))
      February 3, 2017 6:10 PM MST
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  • Or big birds with sharp beach. In an episode of Midsomer Murders the final victim was saved by her falcon which clawed out the murderer's eyes. Lovely scene. 
      February 3, 2017 6:27 PM MST
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  • 7683
    ohh clawing out eyes.....I can't even visualize it....I'm too timid for that;((
      February 3, 2017 6:32 PM MST
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  • 5808
    Black Birds around my neighborhood
    are notorious for swooping down
    and grabbing a claw full of hair
    as you are walking down the street.
    once in awhile something drives them crazy with peoples hair. LOL
      February 3, 2017 6:21 PM MST
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  • Around here it's the magpies who do that. 
      February 3, 2017 6:27 PM MST
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  •   February 3, 2017 6:22 PM MST
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  • OK, OK, you win. :)
      February 3, 2017 6:28 PM MST
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  • I've read a few stories where hawks had attacked people and cause some serious injuries with their talons. I would put the eagle and falcon in that same category.
      February 3, 2017 7:11 PM MST
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  • I told a story above about one of my sons being attacked by an eagle when he was parabliding, but two of the others have actually flown with eagles. They love it. 
      February 3, 2017 8:09 PM MST
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