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No Joke: New Signs at Park Warn of Angry Owls

  

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Via:  nona62  •  9 years ago  •  18 comments

No Joke: New Signs at Park Warn of Angry Owls

No Joke: New Signs at Park Warn of Angry Owls

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow inspired Oregon's capital to post new warning signs in a park where four runners reported attacks from an angry owl likely defending its nest against perceived threats. One jogger, a surgeon, said the owl hit him twice in Bush's Pasture Park in Salem, and so hard he thought he was having a stroke or an aneurysm. Another said the bird swiped his longtime running cap and nicked his scalp.

Maddow suggested on air last week that the city should post a vivid yellow warning sign using the iconic pedestrian stick figure bent forward at a run. Above, claws extended, is a raptor. Salem officials liked the idea. Mark Becktel, parks and transportation services manager, said the city secured rights to reproduce the sign and is posting 20 of them. "It's just making people aware that there's an owl there that for whatever reason swoops down and goes after people's hats," he said.

http://www.newser.com/story/202699/no-joke-new-signs-at-park-warn-of-angry-owls.html


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Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

"It's just making people aware that there's an owl there that for whatever reason swoops down and goes after people's hats," he said

 
 
 
Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

None around where I live...

 
 
 
Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

I never even thought of them being mean...interesting...

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
link   Kavika     9 years ago

As a member of the ''Owl Clan'', I can assure you, you do not want to piss us off.

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Kavika
Professor Principal
link   Kavika     9 years ago

you talkin' to me pilgrim!!!!!

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Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

Kav... Those birds look like something out of a Science Fiction movie!!!

 
 
 
Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

RW...it doesn't surprise me...Blue Jays can be mean buggars...

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
link   Kavika     9 years ago

An adult Great Horned Owl, has 300 PSI in their talons. They are also hunters of other birds of prey, especially Redtail and Goshawks.

An adult has no predators.

 
 
 
Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

WOW......a critter to stay away from for sure!!

 
 
 
Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

They sound EVIL !!

 
 
 
Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

That would almost be enough to psychologically damage a child!!!

 
 
 
Petey Coober
Freshman Silent
link   Petey Coober    9 years ago

Is this the thread to comment on for me to get into the new group "Gimlet Eye" ? If they let me in I will reveal how to deal with angry owls ... without firearms !

 
 
 
Nona62
Professor Silent
link   seeder  Nona62    9 years ago

Ok...no...just an article that I posted......go for it Petey!!

 
 
 
Petey Coober
Freshman Silent
link   Petey Coober    9 years ago

Well ... my membership has been "pending" for days now . I don't want to jinx my chances .

 
 

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