This is NOT a joke !
Did any of you ever hear that Emus are sexually attracted to and will try
and mate with humans ?
Look it up , it's true .
At 06:34 PM 4/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I hit an EMU that was after me while I was building a fence across the
>head solid with a pair of large bolt cutters as hard as I could swing.
>Took me about 5 minutes to come to, but after that he was fine. Those
>are some tough birds. Mean too!
>
>Chad
>
>"Bridges, Bruce" wrote:
>>
>> Jack, I think the R/T attracts birds... My bird story is kinda strange...
>> Driving @ 70mph up the 99 (rural highway in CA) saw the car 2 cars in
front
>> of us slam on the brakes and dive to the left. a large grey brown object
>> goes flying over that car and the car in front of us... We swerve radically
>> to the right (car in front of us goes to the left) out of the rear view
>> mirror I see the object that the car hit (looked like a large bag of dirty
>> rags) get up and run away!! It stood about 4 feet tall. either it was an
>> emu or an ostrich! No farms in the vicinity. down side, even though we
>> didnt hit the bird, the radical swerve caused my front end popping to turn
>> into front end cracking noises! Thanks to the EMU I found that the front
>> lower a-arm bolts were loose! (i think Alan S mentioned this as well)..
>> Now No cracking noises and Im looking out for large birds running in the
>> middle of the road! (the car that hit the emu looked real bad (ford), but
>> the emu ran off...)
>> Bruce "almost bird killer" Bridges
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HEMI@charter.net [mailto:HEMI@charter.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 11:26 AM
>> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net; dakotart@egroups.com
>> Subject: DML: Dakota R/T : 2 Birds : 0
>>
>> Yes , for the second time , I have hit a bird in my truck .
>> Luckily , no damage to the truck again .
>>
>> Funny , this one did the same exact thing : Flying in front of me from the
>> left , while I am at about 50MPH , and he hit the grille , in the upper
>> Pass. side section of the grille .
>>
>> Just call me Bird Killa......!
>>
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>>
>> Jack Hilton III
>>
>> Black 1998 Dodge Dakota R/T Club Cab
>>
>> Charter Pipeline......the Next Wave.....
>>
>> HEMI@charter.net
>>
>> http://webpages.charter.net/hemi/jbd1.html
>>
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