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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOral Roberts University Holds "Bald Eagle Day", Turns Out To Be Epic Fail
Really, the kind of fail that words cannot describe.
U-S-A! U-S-A! the students chanted as the bald eagle swirled around the room.
But after one lap, the cheers turned into a gasps of horror as the bird which was supposed to land on the arm of its trainer, Roger Wallace soared straight for a window and smacked into the glass.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-flyover-fail-bald-eagle-crashes-window-oklahoma-school-falls-ground-article-1.1439452#ixzz2dOcPzLiN
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)nt
jmowreader
(50,527 posts)According to the article, this eagle fell out of its nest after it hatched, breaking his foot and hip in the process, and was delivered to a raptor rescue center by someone who found him. His foot is fucked up for life so he can't be released to the wild.
jmowreader
(50,527 posts)It doesn't say that between the rehearsals and the performance, someone told the eagle the Parable of the 900 Foot Jesus. The poor beast decided to escape the lunacy.
As the late great Sam Kinison once said, "yeah, right, Oral, take your medicine and you'll stop seeing these nine hundred foot Jesuses."
matt819
(10,749 posts)Were the rehearsals done with hundreds of morans screaming USA USA? Probably scared the shit out of the poor thing.
Hekate
(90,526 posts)ouch -- sorry for the bird.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I hope the eagle is okay.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Initech
(100,028 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)and thought, "Hey, I'm outta here!"