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07-14-2008, 09:00 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Land O Lakes
Posts: 2,752
M.O.C. #7753
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Massive Bird Flue Kill Off in Florida
Dateline Miami: Thousands of flamingos have been killed by this dreaded disease.
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07-14-2008, 09:18 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location:
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M.O.C. #6575
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by Exnavydiver
Dateline Miami: Thousands of flamingos have been killed by this dreaded disease.
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Formaldehyde maybe?
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07-14-2008, 11:01 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Bakersfield
Posts: 5,316
M.O.C. #15
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Dave,
That's funny! Wonder where they got all those fake birds? I'll bet there are tons of folks reporting stolen or missing plastic flamingos!
Got to watch that "Bird Flue".
Dennis
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07-14-2008, 11:17 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Land O Lakes
Posts: 2,752
M.O.C. #7753
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Dennis, our church back home had some crazy ladies. When it came time for a fund raising they used a form of extortion. They had the "Bird Squad" go out and place two dozen of those flamingos in someones yard, usually the biggest house on the block. Then they left notes on everybody's house on that block asking for donations and mentioning that if they didn't give that they might end up with dozens of birds in their yard. It worked famously and they always hit their goal. They had gotten them from some place that went out of business for two hundred dollars. That includes a gross of birds and 600 sets of legs. We filled an eight by ten shed to the rafters for storage. I miss those crazy ladies... Dave
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07-14-2008, 12:21 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Tavernier
Posts: 216
M.O.C. #8424
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No bird flu here!! I live in Miami and the Keys. Those are bad fakes, too!!
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07-14-2008, 12:59 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Land O Lakes
Posts: 2,752
M.O.C. #7753
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LOL, isn't that the point? P.S. I just figured it out, it wasn't the bird flu, they ate all of our avatars, serves them right. . Now somebody from Forumco has to cut them out of the birds. ... Dave
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07-14-2008, 01:15 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Shore
Posts: 6,009
M.O.C. #7110
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Maybe our avatars will all be the same now.
"Pink Flamingos."
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07-14-2008, 05:15 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Omaha
Posts: 6,795
M.O.C. #7560
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Our neighborhood association does the pink flamingo thing here to raise money! You can pay to have them put in someone's yard and then the homeowner has to pay to get them removed but they have to stay for at least five days! It's quite a good money raiser for scholarships the association give away each year! Besides paying to have them put in someone's yard and to have them removed from your yard, the neighbors can pay so they aren't put in their yards also-- at least for the week following they are in your yard anyway! Then after that- it's up to you to keep them away! They say those dumb birds really make a mess around the yard if you have the privelege to have them in yours!
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07-15-2008, 03:25 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Fernandina Beach
Posts: 311
M.O.C. #7870
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Hey those things are now collector's items. The last company manufacturing them discontinued them last year.
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07-15-2008, 11:14 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location:
Posts: 2,232
M.O.C. #2975
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Gobal warming probably killed them..
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07-15-2008, 03:43 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: anywhere
Posts: 912
M.O.C. #6260
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There is a hardware store in Palm Bay, FL. that has someone assigned to take care of their flock of Pink Flamingos (plastic of course). On cold days they all have scarfs and a campfire, in the sun they have beach towels and sunglasses, etc. Would drive by every day or so just to see what the birds were up to. So did a lot of us.
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