US News Thousands of birds fall to death in Arkansas town for second New Years Eve in row

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Ancient Mayan legend says that 2012 will bring the end of the world.

A small Arkansas town might have shown the first example of that as approximately 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead from the sky last night in the early hours of the new year.

As if the incident was not strange enough, it is the second time in two years that the birds have fallen as the calendar year changes.

'I thought the Mayor was messing with me when he called me,' said Milton McCullar, the street department supervisor in Beebe, Arkansas.

'He got me up at 4:00 in the morning and told me we had birds falling out of he sky.' Mr McCullar told ABC News.

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Dan

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What is going on here...
 
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It's the birds version of saying:
'Good bye, and thanks for all the fish'
 
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Familiar, but hmm...

Let's try going for a third in a row! :D
 
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The birds in Arkansas are soooo dumb...
 
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Dan said:
The birds in Arkansas are soooo dumb...
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I can imagine that the Birds lose orientation when Fireworks or explosives fluxuate the air pressure. Similar to catching fish with dynamites:
1: Throw dynamites into water
2: Fish swimbubble bursts
3: ???
4: collect Fish that float on the water
5: Profit !!

Anyways, Birds don't fall from the skies naturally and I'm pretty sure Humans are the Cause of it :p
 
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Did they die then fall or fall then die? o.0
The article doesn't make it clear xD
 
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something tells me that someone wanted this to happen
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just like spontaneous human combustion, it happens because someone wants you to combust for no apparent reason

that or something was wrong with the weather climate temp etc. that day.

i dunno
 
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Some say the birds get blinded and/or confused by lights from fireworks and other disturbing factors that force them to wild flight for hours while new year takes place, leading to crash etc.. Tho this is interreting I doubt it, but here's more on the topic if you have an open mind.

"That is an interesting video. Birds drop from the sky all the time, although I've never witnessed it or even seen a video of it, until you sent yours. Birds must (obviously) die at some point, and it's not unusual for them to die while in flight or to succumb to an illness while flying and lose their ability to fly, resulting in death upon impact with the ground or drowning in the ocean. These scenarios are probably especially true for birds that spend much of their time in flight, such as sea birds. The comparable situation is when a person keels over while walking down the street, one doesn't witness it very often, but it certainly happens all the time".
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