Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Crazy Crap Memphis Is So Depraved Even The Birds Get Wasted!
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:36 AM
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It's like a scene out of some bad Roland Emmerich disaster flick: Birds wheeling and careering across the sky, then crashing into buildings...and it's funny in an unintentional kinda way, too.
Adorable cedar waxwings--heretofore nicknamed "Memphian Lushes"--imbibed the succulent juice of the holly berry last week. Not an uncommon thing, but there was something especiale about these berries: The freezing temperatures of late ruptured their cells, allowing wild yeast to ferment the juice inside.
And what do you get? Soused birds that can't fly straight, that's what. On a more somber note, I should point out that even in the bird world, drinking can have dire consequences. An unspecified number of the birds were found dead near Beale Street in the Peabody Place area after crashing into buildings. Alcohol poisoning hasn't been ruled out, either.
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Well, that wasn't so bad; but when one of them asked me for $10 bucks to buy new jumper cables, that was too much!
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Posted by
LeftWingCracker
on March 4, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Drunk birds in Memphis. I can dig it. Critters seem to gravitate toward the evil spirits just like humans. Alaskan bears get blasted on spiked blueberries. African primates on over-ripe fruit. Ronal ought to consider a task-force unit for animal substance enforcement. Just think of the revenue that might be being missed from high parakeets and kittys confined where killer weed is being smoked, to say nothing of an imbibing family beagle lapping up left over beer after the weekend ball game.
Posted by
SamCynic
on March 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM
