Weird Things At The Front Door

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:13 pm

Guys,
I don't like this. Pulled in just a few minutes ago and this is what I saw at the front door. A half dozen buzzards just watched as I drove past and into the garage. They were congregating too close for my comfort. I went inside and grabbed the camera and snapped a few. The cats were not even disturbed.

There was nothing dead there, not even cat food.

I keep telling everyone that something bad is gonna happen in this country and I hope its not a bad omen.--------Sixgun

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:15 pm

That IS weird.

Post by **Hobie** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:28 pm

We used to call my dad "the old buzzard". After he AND my mom had passed the wife and I were discussing whether to buy the home place or not as we drove out to the place to do maintenance. I said I wished the old buzzard would tell me if it was ok. We went up the drive and a big "old buzzard" was perched on the peak of the roof just looking at us.

mod71alaska · Post by **mod71alaska** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:38 pm

Those buzzard just sense "old delicious decaying" and they're coming after you, old man!!!

Jack, you had to know that was coming!!!

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:46 pm

They`er looking for a BUZZ ya old hippy.

earlmck · Post by **earlmck** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:51 pm

I'm sure that is a message. I'm not sure what the message is. Good luck, Sixgun!

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:01 pm

Makes you wonder doesn't it !

Kinda like it makes me wonder why buzzards don't roost over that white house on Pennsylvania Avenue in DC where that PAIR of loud mouthed buzzards live for the moment atleast !

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:10 pm

Oh man, you guys got my knees quivering. I'm a superstitious "old buzzard", (come on Victor, I'm only 58!!

) and I've never seen this in the last 38 years of living here.

I might have an answer. My good friend "The Gunny" just told me over the phone, "Hey Jack, you remember the other night I was there and there were all them slimey slugs all over the walkway?" We have been invaded by these nasty slugs that are about 3-5 inches long and we have probably stomped a few so maybe those buzzards are eating them up.

Oh Lordy, your right Pitchy, I need a "buzz". Where's that Jack Daniels........or Wild Turkey?

---Sixgun

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:17 pm

Sixgun wrote:Oh Lordy, your right Pitchy, I need a "buzz". Where's that Jack Daniels........or Wild Turkey? ---Sixgun

Under the circumstances don't you think "Old Crow" might be more appropriate I mean a crow is also a big black bird and all

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:24 pm

6pt-sika wrote:
Sixgun wrote:Oh Lordy, your right Pitchy, I need a "buzz". Where's that Jack Daniels........or Wild Turkey? ---Sixgun

Under the circumstances don't you think "Old Crow" might be more appropriate I mean a crow is also a big black bird and all

Ok 6 point. Hows this for an "Old Crow"

This picture makes me laugh so much that I'm posting it everywhere.

----------Sixgun

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:27 pm

I think you have some of them darn migrated European Human Eating Vultures??????????????
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -time.html

Also----they purposely are attracked to and have a liking of trashing Jeeps! (stay away from the windows in your home too)they be mean!

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:31 pm

Sixgun wrote:
6pt-sika wrote:
Sixgun wrote:Oh Lordy, your right Pitchy, I need a "buzz". Where's that Jack Daniels........or Wild Turkey? ---Sixgun

Under the circumstances don't you think "Old Crow" might be more appropriate I mean a crow is also a big black bird and all

Ok 6 point. Hows this for an "Old Crow" This picture makes me laugh so much that I'm posting it everywhere. ----------Sixgun

That pics not funny at all !

It's SO VERY TRUE and so so sad

O.S.O.K. · Post by **O.S.O.K.** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:36 pm

I think it's some kind of good luck sign. Do you have any Indian blood?

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:02 pm

There is nothing to fear!
These things happen all the time in the west.
Want something to fear? Ask me about the owl outside my window all last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:04 pm

No worries Sixgun.....those are just Italian chickens.

Here are two stories that freaked me and my wife out. Notice, they are about one year, give or take a month or two, apart. Whether they are related to your "chicken's" I don't know.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ne ... 02428.html
And yesterday....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -area.html

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:02 pm

Ha! Italian chickens!

And I'm Italian, well, half anyway!

Hey, 'ya know what Italy's National bird is?............................the fly.

-----------Sixgun

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:21 pm

Step careful sixgun! I'd say it was the buzzards who needed to worry!

Got up last Saturday to these turkeys on my lawn. What do you suppose that means?.......

Rimfire McNutjob · Post by **Rimfire McNutjob** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:36 pm

That cat is none to sure about what to do with a bird of that size.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:02 pm

Buzzards are the angels of death that have come to take away the dead meat to heaven....

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:13 pm

Sixgun wrote:Ha! Italian chickens! And I'm Italian, well, half anyway!

Hey, 'ya know what Italy's National bird is?............................the fly. -----------Sixgun

Yeah I was hoping to build off your long running Italian jokes and glad you got that. No offense to the fine folks of Italian decent.

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:38 pm

It seems that the vulture population is on the rise. Read Ezekiel 39:17-20,it will take a lot of them to get the job done.

1894cfan · Post by **1894cfan** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:40 pm

Mescalero wrote:Ask me about the owl outside my window all last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you hear it call your name?

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:23 am

JerryB wrote:It seems that the vulture population is on the rise. Read Ezekiel 39:17-20,it will take a lot of them to get the job done.

Thats exactly my observations. I'm seeing them all over.

I like to joke but I am not joking on this issue. Just google "500,000 coffins in Georgia". ---------------------Sixgun

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:02 am

C. Cash wrote:
Sixgun wrote:Ha! Italian chickens! And I'm Italian, well, half anyway!

Hey, 'ya know what Italy's National bird is?............................the fly. -----------Sixgun
Yeah I was hoping to build off your long running Italian jokes and glad you got that. No offense to the fine folks of Italian decent.

We got a guy thats a member at both the gun clubs I belong to that is of Italian decent . He's a retired crane operator by trade so he's naturally full of himself !

He has a pair of Krieghoff K-32 Crown Grades and a K-80 Danube grade skeet set which I am highly enviouse of

But on his tooled leather shell pouch he wears while shooting he has three intials , "WOP" !

I never was one for using that or any of the other ethnic words well except for maybe that thing in the white house but lest I digress . Anyway I always thought that was kinda funny , he's had that shell pouch for well over 25 years !

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:08 am

'Ya know 6 point, I believe its all what you think of yourself. I hear Italian jokes all the time and I truly laugh at them just as much as any other kind of joke. I know who I am and what I think of myself and not much bothers me.......just don't make fun of my family and I'm sure most regular guys feel the same way.

How come time goes so fast in Italy?????????.

Because every time you turn around, you see another day go.

-------Sixgun

(i gotta get back to work, I'm on the clock)

O.S.O.K. · Post by **O.S.O.K.** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:25 pm

Everybody who's ancestors are from Europe that has a long skinny nose is part Italian.

It's not called a "Romanesque" nose for nothing.

Indiginous populations had short noses before the Romans came.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:34 pm

Everyone but WASPs were discriminated against when they tried to mainstream into society. All succeeded, including most Asians, except one, poor, downtrodden group that The Man still has his boot on top of....but, that's ok, because they have Jesse, Al, the ACLU, and the Democrats looking out for their best interests

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:43 pm

We had a large population of buzzards in N.M. this year, however I do not attribute it to any particular " otherworldly " experience.
It is a response to the annual elk hunt.
Lots of big gut piles.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:51 am

piller · Post by **piller** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:20 pm

What was the Mexican Air Force doing passing through Pennsylvania?

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:56 pm

homefront · Post by **homefront** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:02 am

"We got a guy thats a member at both the gun clubs I belong to that is of Italian decent . He's a retired crane operator by trade so he's naturally full of himself !

He has a pair of Krieghoff K-32 Crown Grades and a K-80 Danube grade skeet set which I am highly enviouse of

But on his tooled leather shell pouch he wears while shooting he has three intials , "WOP" !

I never was one for using that or any of the other ethnic words well except for maybe that thing in the white house but lest I digress . Anyway I always thought that was kinda funny , he's had that shell pouch for well over 25 years !"

For those who don't know, WOP goes back to immigrants arriving at Ellis Island With Out Papers.

And "Kike" was short for the Yiddish "Kikel", or circle. Jewish immigrants would not sign with an X, feeling it was somehow related to the Christian Cross, so they signed with a circle instead.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:40 am

piller wrote:What was the Mexican Air Force doing passing through Pennsylvania?

Ha! My type of humor

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:00 am

Everybody gets singled out at one time or another. In the 30's, my folks were known as dirty "Okies," "Arkies" and "Texies" when they immigrated to California. They were next to subhuman to many and treated as such. The Grapes of Wrath was an accurate book. But you can't hold good people down, no matter what you call them or where they come from. At the same time, it's ridiculous to be so PC that you can't laugh at yourself.

Irelander · Post by **Irelander** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:00 pm

Sixgun,

If you are so worries about those buzzards, grab your 10/22 and go to town on 'em. I've seen a lot of turkey buzzards around here this year. A nice head shot with a .22 rifle seems to take care of them pretty well. I'm sure it will take care of yours too.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:19 pm

Irelander wrote:Sixgun,

If you are so worries about those buzzards, grab your 10/22 and go to town on 'em. I've seen a lot of turkey buzzards around here this year. A nice head shot with a .22 rifle seems to take care of them pretty well. I'm sure it will take care of yours too.

I was 3 seconds from grabbing my "yard shotgun", a 20 ga Stevens and thinking of a strategy when a lightbulb lit up. 'Ya see, I have a relative who lives next door who we have not talked to since 1984 and its a sure bet the cops or the game warden would be called, especially if one of the buzzards was wounded and made it to their yard.

They can't say nothing about me shooting as thats legal but killin' buzzards ain't. Its like a potato field here in the East............too many eyes

--------------Sixgun

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:43 pm

Sixgun wrote:
Irelander wrote:Sixgun,

If you are so worries about those buzzards, grab your 10/22 and go to town on 'em. I've seen a lot of turkey buzzards around here this year. A nice head shot with a .22 rifle seems to take care of them pretty well. I'm sure it will take care of yours too.

I was 3 seconds from grabbing my "yard shotgun", a 20 ga Stevens and thinking of a strategy when a lightbulb lit up. 'Ya see, I have a relative who lives next door who we have not talked to since 1984 and its a sure bet the cops or the game warden would be called, especially if one of the buzzards was wounded and made it to their yard.

They can't say nothing about me shooting as thats legal but killin' buzzards ain't. Its like a potato field here in the East............too many eyes --------------Sixgun

Around here, unless you have a licence and a tag for it, better not shoot it or you could lose your rig, gun etc....It's SSS if you really have something that needs killin'.

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:55 pm

http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature ... Raven.html

1894cfan · Post by **1894cfan** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:43 am

Mescalero wrote:There is nothing to fear!
These things happen all the time in the west.
Want something to fear? Ask me about the owl outside my window all last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you hear it call your name?

1894c · Post by **1894c** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:46 am

do they lay eggs like chickens, since they're hanging out they might be useful besides eating dead stuff...just asking... :)

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:02 am

I'm not too sure I'd joke about owls....I had a couple weird things happen with them...they don't all talk, ya know

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:53 pm

Yeah,
Wierdness prevails when owls are around.

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:53 pm

That's right a Mescalero would know.I have heard some owl spirit stories on the res when I was there with friends and the old people would talk.

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:56 pm

It is not pleasent.

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:00 pm

I know for sure it is not at all a pleasent experience, I had one in the Florida glades one nite that still makes my skin crawl that was in 1962 about a month after my dad died.