Please please some one any DUer

[malaise]

Find that pix with Bush and the trained hawk in Saudi Arabia today.

What a fugging coward - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :rofl:

[mcscajun]

1. Here's one of 'em. (and it's a falcon.)

[louis-t]

2. Can someone put "lunch" coming out of

stupid's mouth?

[Pastiche423]

16. Just for you

[louis-t]

17. Beautiful! So many talented people here.

[Bucky]

5. I enjoy a good "Bush looks like an idiot" as much as the next guy, but here... I dunno

Bush is holding a trained raptor 10 inches from his face. I'd flinch too. How exactly does this constitute cowardice? He looks, at most, cautious--as he should be.

[mcscajun]

6. It's got its hood on; if it's truly a prized, trained bird, it won't do a thing

while it's hooded.

Still... I wouldn't get that close to it. Not for Money.

[Bucky]

8. So you're agreeing with me?

[mcscajun]

10. Yes and no.

Doesn't change my opinion of him much, but it's still something I wouldn't do.

[Lisa]

7. I've noticed that he tends to move rather unpredictably ...

I used to work with raptors. If they've been properly "manned" they aren't supposed to lunge at the handler, but I can see why even a well-trained bird might become stressed in his presence. This is the same guy, after all, who has had multiple run-ins with domesticated turkeys (one of whom tried to bite his hand after he grabbed its head).

If I were the falconer, I wouldn't want him near any of my birds!

I've trained a kestrel, a screech owl, redtails, and a turkey vulture -- and I used to let them sit on my shoulder after we'd gotten used to each other, even handling the vulture, the kestrel, and one of the redtails without a glove. Not proper falconry procedure, but I wanted to get the birds used to close human proximity, since they were being trained for school programmes. I was careful and never got a bite or a scratch (raptors seem to be more likely to use their talons than their beaks if they feel threatened) from the ones I was training (though the wild birds we were treating at the vet clinic did freak out, understandably because we were treating them for injuries and they were already stressed).


p.s. the very fact that Bucky and mcscajun have declared that they would not go up that close to a bird and mess about would make me more likely to trust them than Bush ... they'd be keeping their hands to themselves. Based on his past behavior, Bush would be taking liberties with either me or the raptor (neither of us like having our heads rubbed by complete strangers!).

[rucky]

11. He's not raptor-ready. n/t

[Bucky]

12. !

thanks

[malaise]

13. Thanks

MSNBC said hawk. There's another one -priceless :D

[Lisa]

3. these ones?

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080113/481/42f3a2b85b41440aab4bfc9914c5533e/

?



By the way, if I had a priceless falcon, I wouldn't let * take it on a glove -- giving him the perch to hold is probably a wise move. I used to work with raptors ... it would be just like him to lose the bird! (Here's one of him holding a screech owl at another photo-op -- he's using the wrong hand for it.)

[vanboggie]

4. Quick! Where's Cheney when you need him??? n/t

[peekaloo]

9. Hey this here lil fella looks like one of them Aboo Grape fellas....which I had

nuttin' to do with. heheheheheh

[malaise]

14. Thanks

They've removed them.

[Rex]

15. What no gauntlet? What a chickenshit coward. George you suck.

At least act like you have a spinal cord, put the dam bird on your arm. Be a man just ONCE in your life. I mean, okay I will give you the horse thing. People are scared of large animals, but a big bird? :eyes:

I think we finally discovered a real live chickenhawk. Perch please.