The unluckiest bird in the world

[mmcirvin]

among other things, photographed during today's space shuttle launch.

After the Columbia disaster naturally they're nervous about pieces falling off of the shuttle, so they've got cameras all over creation, and, lo and behold, all kinds of things fall off of the shuttle when it goes up, and it also hit a bird. My impression is that this is basically the kind of thing that happens every time. You know there are going to be a lot of tense meetings about that tile on the underside, anyway.

Comments

[iayork.livejournal.com]

You kids! That one was nothing to the seagull Dave Winfield hit with a tossed ball, while trying to scare it off the field, at Toronto's Skydome some 20 years ago. As his manager observed, it was the first time he'd hit the cutoff man all year.

[ckd]

Winfield's bird didn't appear to explode.

[iayork.livejournal.com]

No, but you got to see a batboy somberly laying a towel, like a shroud, over the bird. You also got to see Winfield arrested for cruelty to animals on his next trip to Toronto.