Grackles attack in Houston
Houston is under siege from grackles of all things.
A grackle is a bird just like a crow except for it has a stupid name. The grackles have attacked because they are protecting their young, experts say.
"There was two grackles and they were merciless. I know they are only 5 pounds but... ... ok I have no excuse for being attacked by a couple of stupid birds" said one victim of the grackles.
The birds have reportedly attacked a lawyer and deputy county clerk. Apparently even grackles hate lawyers and government workers. The county clerk, Sylvia Vasquez, reportedly made the grackles wait an insane amount of time to register their nests in the city while being rude the whole time when she was attacked.
She was knocked to the ground by some grackles and some people came to help her up and took her in to a building to escape the birds. The people were then issued a zoning violation for using the building in a non-designated way.
The grackles are native to Mexico and have immigrated to the north because of better job opportunities animals experts suspect. American birds are disgruntled with the grackle immigrants for taking their favorite nesting areas and food sources. American birds have reportedly formed a vigilante group to "personally do the job the US Bird Government should be doing for us".
A few attacks seem to happen every spring and seem to be very isolated. People think it's fun to analogize it to the Hitchcock film, Psycho, because of how the birds are crazy and attack people just like the guy did in Psycho.
The Houston Chronicle reports that the grackles will be given jobs paid under the table cleaning Wal-mart at odd hours of the night. The Chronicle originally reported the story because it was a "slow news day".
3 Comments:
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I really liked this post because it tied in current political issues with a slap-happy, esoteric joy of life that I find refreshing.
The allusion to the minute-man vigilantes in Arizona was particularly amusing because I used to live in Arizona, and thus feel a special bond with all Mexican references. We love our little fruit-pickers.
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Carrying a cat in your pocket will certainly get you grackle attacked (gracklacked? or grattacked?) You gotta watch those things.
One would think that people would liken the grackle attack to the Hitchcock movie The Birds rather than Psycho seeing as, well, they were attacked by birds....
Deb
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