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A ball game for the birds
![]() A little bird told its friends about a new game of golf (Photo: Wikipedia/Saint Martin) |
In what sounds like one of the preludes before Alfred Hitchcock’s birds start their coordinated attack on mankind, a woman in Devon / UK has had her roof pelted with colourful plastic golf balls, dropped by flocks of seagulls. It almost seems as though one little bird spread the news about the balls – the origin of which remains a mystery – and a whole bunch of them decided to join in on the new ball game.
The act gives entirely new meaning to the saying “to eat like a bird”. Experts believe the winged creatures mistake the golf balls for mussels, which they crack open by dropping them from a height. There’s nothing like a bird-brain to drop the ball…
The act gives entirely new meaning to the saying “to eat like a bird”. Experts believe the winged creatures mistake the golf balls for mussels, which they crack open by dropping them from a height. There’s nothing like a bird-brain to drop the ball…
28.09.2012 Plasteurope.com [223476-0]
Published on 28.09.2012