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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 19, 2017 11:20:26 GMT -5
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Post by captbob on Oct 19, 2017 12:11:35 GMT -5
very cool
Cat - the other white meat!
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 19, 2017 13:32:20 GMT -5
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 19, 2017 13:33:46 GMT -5
Yum yum! Poor Midnight. Looks like he has seen his last Friday the 13th, lol. 2017 was a bad year for him, he almost made it out alive.
If it is good enough for some folks (not naming any ethnicities. No racism here, folks), it's got to be good enough for a Bald Eagle, the US National Emblem.
(sorry, catlovers)
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Post by amygdule on Oct 19, 2017 14:29:26 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 19, 2017 14:55:35 GMT -5
amygdule, why do you think it is fake? Do a Google search for "Bald Eagle eats cat." Not a rarity at all. There are also videos of coyotes eating pet cats. Cats are an introduced species here, and do so much damage on natives species, particularly song birds. Small pets are easy pickings for the native predators.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Oct 19, 2017 14:59:26 GMT -5
Yup, that scene looks out of place, but nature don't care. A bird's gotta eat and my how the tables have turned!
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Post by amygdule on Oct 19, 2017 16:54:58 GMT -5
Because I'm a Skeptic and thinks the internet is full of shit. The eagles around here are usually shy of people. Kind of gross when you see them feeding on a bloated sea lion carcass. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 19, 2017 18:08:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd say it (the internet) pretty much is (full of shit). But if that is fake, someone went to a whole heck of a lot of trouble to fake it. Looked pretty darn real to me. One of the videos I found when I Googled was of another black cat (not a good color to be, lol), carted off to an eagle's nest. Momma eagle was ripping off pieces and feeding them to her two youngsters. Methinks some things just can't be faked.
Okay, so you're a skeptic. Nothing wrong with that.
Yeah, nature can sometimes be kind of gross, but it is what it is. Nature plays by it's own rules, all of God's creatures have to eat.
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Post by radio on Oct 19, 2017 19:46:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd say it (the internet) pretty much is (full of shit). But if that is fake, someone went to a whole heck of a lot of trouble to fake it. Looked pretty darn real to me. One of the videos I found when I Googled was of another black cat (not a good color to be, lol), carted off to an eagle's nest. Momma eagle was ripping off pieces and feeding them to her two youngsters. Methinks some things just can't be faked. Okay, so you're a skeptic. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, nature can sometimes be kind of gross, but it is what it is. Nature plays by it's own rules, all of God's creatures have to eat. Here in Missouri the Department of Conservation has "Eagle cams" on a few nests live streamed to the internet. Just this spring Mama, or maybe Dad brought a full grown cat to the nest to feed the Eaglets. City folk and tree huggers were horrified! |
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Post by fishnpinball on Oct 19, 2017 19:56:59 GMT -5
I have to agree that I am a skeptic. The internet is filled with fakes but so is most of our life today.
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 19, 2017 20:02:11 GMT -5
OK guys, this is a REAL story from my local newspaper. Trust me, they have no sense of humor and this is not fake. There are a lot of eagles around here. There was one in my neighborhood before they cut the tree down they were nesting in. Lots of bird of prey here in the Tidewater area- city areas included. There is an osprey nested on top of a bridge in Yorktown. Shes pretty famous. They could never get her to move on, so they let her stay. There were two nasty vultures eating something on my street one day. Didn't give one crap about the cars trying to get by and the people watching. Man, those things are HUGE and gross.
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Post by fishnpinball on Oct 19, 2017 20:11:47 GMT -5
OK guys, this is a REAL story from my local newspaper. Trust me, they have no sense of humor and this is not fake. There are a lot of eagles around here. There was one in my neighborhood before they cut the tree down they were nesting in. Lots of bird of prey here in the Tidewater area- city areas included. There is an osprey nested on top of a bridge in Yorktown. Shes pretty famous. They could never get her to move on, so they let her stay. There were two nasty vultures eating something on my street one day. Didn't give one crap about the cars trying to get by and the people watching. Man, those things are HUGE and gross. Oh I believe this story, I just have a problem with the fact that you have to double check information that matters. |
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 19, 2017 20:15:12 GMT -5
OK guys, this is a REAL story from my local newspaper. Trust me, they have no sense of humor and this is not fake. There are a lot of eagles around here. There was one in my neighborhood before they cut the tree down they were nesting in. Lots of bird of prey here in the Tidewater area- city areas included. There is an osprey nested on top of a bridge in Yorktown. Shes pretty famous. They could never get her to move on, so they let her stay. There were two nasty vultures eating something on my street one day. Didn't give one crap about the cars trying to get by and the people watching. Man, those things are HUGE and gross. Oh I believe this story, I just have a problem with the fact that you have to double check information that matters. I gotcha. I tend to be a skeptic, too, because of the BS online. Gotta check everything. In the video, I know where that store is. It's down the street from my daughter's house. |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Oct 19, 2017 20:24:33 GMT -5
I don't know what is to gain by faking a story like this. And interviewing fake witnesses and creating fake cell phone videos, which I'm sure exist in duplicate, would be a lot of work for a few clicks. Skeptic is one thing, but...
This one, on the other hand, I'm with you.
'Bald Eagle takes down elephant in front of Costco. Ivory carried off. Midday crowd gathers to watch.' (seemed to be topical)
The MSM has an agenda, but not everything is a deception. Who stands to gain from the eagle/cat story? The publication that covered it? A Pulitzer in the balance? I think not. I'd hate to go through life that way. |
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Post by amygdule on Oct 20, 2017 12:03:51 GMT -5
I don't doubt that an eagle would snatch a kitty. I see them eat all sorts of things around here. Dead or alive.
Glad I'm not an eagle or a cat.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 18:54:10 GMT -5
Fake News Halloween Prank. I suppose you may be correct! But that cat could be roadkill and that image early morning before traffic picked up. Baldies are scavengers too... Adds a tiny bit of credibility. I'm on the fence. Doubt we will ever know. |
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Post by parfive on Oct 20, 2017 19:33:58 GMT -5
Obviously not enough windmills in SE VA.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Oct 20, 2017 19:34:36 GMT -5
Jesus, you guys...
If I were that fearful of 'falling for it', as important as this is, why I guess I'd have to look up the number to that auto parts store, call up and conduct interviews with all the employees, plus ask for any video surveillance tapes, collect evidence and perhaps go see if there are blood stains on the sidewalk. I would hate to have been a teacher to someone with this psychosis. "The sky is blue". "FAKE NEWS!"
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Post by amygdule on Oct 20, 2017 22:06:18 GMT -5
Do Eagles eat Trolls. I better hide.
One time when I was out on the rocks I spotted an otter on a dike eating a duck.
I watched for several minutes then the otter jumped into the water and a Bald Eagle
swooped down and grabbed the remains of the duck and flew off with it.
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