Darwins theory at work
 

Hey, I have no sympathy, if the birds that stupid..... And before that nature and hippies lovers bitch, that wind turbine is spinning slowly enough so that 99% of birds will easily see and avoid the blades, all modern wind turbines are designed that way. Larger turbines create more torque and can turn larger gear boxes and thus, do not need to spin at high speeds to generate electricity. More birds die each year from automobile accidents and skyscrapers vs modern wind turbines.

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Poor thing:no: Even if it was a really dumb bird. I hope that it was put out of it's misery quickly, or that the proper wildlife management authorities were called.

Actually I think at the end it died from shock.

Didn't help that he seemed to pass through it about 5-10 times.

Hence my point/thread title

Play with fire, you get burned :diablo:

Doh !
Snap,thud, Game over.

Poor thing.
 

Sure it's dumb, but mostly it's really sad. The road to progress is awash in blood.

very sad, I have a tear in my eye. Now get a shovel and make buzzard soup.

That sucks. I can't tell you how many dead deer I pass everyday on the way to work. Regardless, when one slammed into my car on a dead run I was sad. (f'd the side of my car too.)

Evolution works over a long period of time. Not quick enough for all the dumbass deer. I swear they are drawn to the traffic.

:rofl::rofl:

I hate that too. On one hand I am saddened by the death, but on the other, am disappointed that all that meat is going to waste.

Speaking of which, lots of the hillbillies here have those little bullet-looking things mounted to their bumpers. I presume they are simply whistles activated by the airflow of a moving vehicle, and are meant to scare away would-be roadkill. Do these actually work? Or is it just another hillbilly affectation to go along with their old rusty pickup with the gunrack?

they're sold in MN as deer alerts. They're supposed to scare deers away. They have a very narrow output zone, and are rarely aimed right, so even if they do work they won't work.

I had some on my '86 LTD crown victoria signature series lx. I used them as elephant alerts, and for as long as I owned that car I never hit an elephant. They work great!

I swear if I start seeing grates over the fan blades of wind turbines I'm gonna go hippie hunting.... :grrrrrr:

Yeah, i'll join you on that.

Racist Stereotype !! How dare you ??

Yuck, Yuck, Yes sir'ree bobby, Boy-Howdy dem thar buzzards are some good eatin'

lol, how is that racist? Since when did hillbilly become a new race? I just thought it was the lowest dregs of all races.

hahaha ^^^

I always laughed at these weekend warriors who get all camo'd up and douse themselves in deer piss and drive 300 miles to go hunting when I could walk out behind my house w/ a hammer and bring back three before breakfast.
Still doesn't mean I like driving by the mangled carcasses on the side of the road w/ the babies standing around them wondering what to do now mommy is hamburger.

One year a whole group of them just stood in the yard of my parents in law house just watching me as I tossed snowballs at them. Got one in the butt and the whole herd tore off like a bat out of hell. :)

Well now my feelings are really hurt, I know now I'm nothing ?
You heartless bastard. LOL.

Does this evidence mean the animal rights activists are going to file suit against the EPA for declaring this as clean power?

I just hope they don't pass a low against windmills to protect the Buzzards!

:lol:

Yup, that's me; heartless. And for the bastard part; I only wish (my father is a tool). :lol:

I think they have tried a number of times and hence the redesigns. Can't win for losing. I think its considered clean power as long as they don't splatter.

It's pretty simple; put some kind of whistle thingy (discussed earlier) on the ends of the blade to irritate the birds away.

Your father was a tool?

Damn... you are a heartless bastard.

You don't know him. I haven't spoken to him in several years. And if he died tomorrow, I would feel no more sorrow than I would if anyone else passed away. When you are young, you accept the situation you are in as "normal". When you get older, you see that things were not right, and for that, he is a tool.

They've tried in the past

Then you would have people bitching about noise, headaches, migraines and even memory loss. Yes, people have blamed wind turbines cause that as well

This reminds me of an interview on Top Gear between Jeremy Clarkson and Terry Wogan. Apparantly in the UK, if you run over a deer, you can't take it home as meat, but the next guy that comes along can.

So, can the guy that owns the wind generator eat the buzzard? If its government owned (therefore owned by everyone), does that mean no one can eat it?!

.dk

Ouch, say no more. Sry to hear. Thankfully the apple fell far from the tree.

Most wind turbines are privately leased or owned, not all are goverment sanctioned.

Those ultra sonic scare devices for cars don't work - well not on kangaroos anyway

You do not want to hit a kanga in a car...they usually don't die & get very p-off

What exactly happens when you piss off a kangaroo?

They rear up on their tail & kick...a lot & unbelievably hard

http://www.ozanimals.com/image/album...0402290035.jpg

You can imagine what that does to you...

I would not like to be kicked in the butt by a Kangooroo, that middle finger looks like it would go pretty deep :oh: makes me think of this one time, at band camp, there was this donkey and.... uh!.... whattah wee talkin' 'bout? Is the soup ready?

One word, "Pedicure"

hitting a wombat on the other hand is even worse:lol:
because you hit the buggers by accident, bump over them, this just pisses them off, few K's later you get a flat...revenge:diablo:
this happened to me:lol: them wombats are impossible to destroy!!

Well.....Every thing may be bigger in Texas, But every thing's meaner in Australia:diablo:

They're built to last that's for sure & yes been a while since I've played chicken with a wombat...not recommended

like the Arnold schwatyoumacallhim of the bush them wally wombats :lol:

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...y/DSCN1838.jpg

Send me free round-trip tickets and hook me up with a couple cases of Fosters and I'll take care of all the Wombats you want :wink: