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Quietly shittin all over NYC

nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
edited May 2010 in Strut Central
He waits, he watches...

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  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    I got something waiting for ya...

  • Lucious_FoxLucious_Fox 2,479 Posts
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    He waits, he watches...



    Awesome. I got shit on by a pigeon once, just after stepping out of Penn Station on my way to Brooklyn. Turned right around and went back to LI. The city won that day.
  • staxwaxstaxwax 1,474 Posts
    its good luck to be shat on by a bird according to the chinese.
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    Sween,
    My Dad has raised pigeons since he was a kid in Brooklyn.....his coop is the Taj Majal of pigeon coops(multi-level w/heat and A/C) and is over near Wantagh Ave. & Jerusalem Ave.......MacArthur H.S. had a problem with "rat" pigeons and brought in a few hawks to take care of the problem.....only problem is they figured out real quick that the old man's corn fed pigeons were a lot tastier than those skeezy rats....so now almost every time my Dad flies his flock one of his prized pigeons is picked out of mid-flight by a hawk .....getting to be an expensive hobby.
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    Sween,
    My Dad has raised pigeons since he was a kid in Brooklyn.....his coop is the Taj Majal of pigeon coops(multi-level w/heat and A/C) and is over near Wantagh Ave. & Jerusalem Ave.......MacArthur H.S. had a problem with "rat" pigeons and brought in a few hawks to take care of the problem.....only problem is they figured out real quick that the old man's corn fed pigeons were a lot tastier than those skeezy rats....so now almost every time my Dad flies his flock one of his prized pigeons is picked out of mid-flight by a hawk .....getting to be an expensive hobby.

    I remember you telling me about your dads pigeons, I asked if he released them down at West End 2 at all because I see people doing that all the time down there, either releasing them or retrieving them after a race. My mom lives over that way now, I ride my bike past Wantagh on Jerusalem all the time. If one of your dad's pigeons shits on me while I'm riding I'm buying my own hawks to escort me through that area.

  • empanadamnempanadamn 1,462 Posts
    i been shitted on (by birds) about 7 or 8 times now. the most recent was last week.

    i think the whole "good luck" thing is just to make the
    shitted on feel better about their situation.
  • Otis_FunkmeyerOtis_Funkmeyer 1,321 Posts
    Two of my coworkers stepped out to get lottery tickets. One won $5000, the other one got shit on. So, no, not good luck.
  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
    i been shitted on (by birds) about 7 or 8 times now. the most recent was last week.

    i think the whole "good luck" thing is just to make the
    shitted on feel better about their situation.

    Something shat on me one NYE.

    Although judging by the sheer volume and viscosity of the steaming liquid/solid mass of putrid crap that splattered my shoulder, neck and face, i think it was a dragon.

    Not lucky.
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    thought about putting this in a "finds" post, but this is all birds-R.
    There's a hummingbird nest in a tree in my courtyard. I've never seen anything like it. I'm becoming obsessed. I'll just sit in a chair and watch the mom bird watch for trouble:




    I rigged my camera up on a tripod, set it to ten second timer mode, focused on my hand, and then raised the camera up into the tree above the nest (it's only about 10 feet off the ground):



    It's the size of a golf ball. Two baby hummingbirds inside. Insanity.

    I was divebombed after taking this pic today:

    http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8172/img6417g.jpg

    Going to try and get a less-invasive way of documenting them, any ideas? I'd like to get some more pics, but momma bird wasn't too happy today...
  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
    holy shit man, those are amazing.

    Speaking as someone who has absofuckinglutly no experience in covert Hummingbird photograpy i would say try getting mama bird accustomed to the camera, maybe keep it on the tripod and then use one of those cord thingies (that is a trechnical term) to snap. i guess youll need to leave the camera out there for a while, i wonder how long they make those cord thingies.

    Whatever you do, KEEP POSTING PICS, these are amazing.

    size of a golfball? damn.
  • nzshadownzshadow 5,518 Posts
    http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-hummingbirds
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    i been shitted on (by birds) about 7 or 8 times now. the most recent was last week.

    i think the whole "good luck" thing is just to make the
    shitted on feel better about their situation.

    Something shat on me one NYE.

    Although judging by the sheer volume and viscosity of the steaming liquid/solid mass of putrid crap that splattered my shoulder, neck and face, i think it was a dragon.

    Not lucky.

    Aren't you the guy who worked at a porn shop?
  • BreezBreez 1,706 Posts
    Awww, the Strut has a soft side.

  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    Awww, the Strut has a soft side.


    until you invoke the names of mandrill or war...then -- watch out!
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    NAH TROOP HUMMINGBIRDS ARE TERRITORIAL BATTLERS DONT LET THE SIZE FOOL YOU THIS IS SOME HARD ROCK WAR JOURNALIZM
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    I was going to post the famous Cyndi Lauper Incident, but sadly it's not on youtube.

    http://music.aol.com/photo-galleries/13-unluckiest-musicians-cyndi-lauper
  • tallbobsmoketallbobsmoke 715 Posts
  • KineticKinetic 3,739 Posts
    With magpies here in Oz, getting shat on by them is the least of your problems!

  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    one of these little guy's egg fell out of the nest a little while ago, so I put it back in the nest and they hatched recently...was able to get a couple pics without getting my eyes pecked out by momma

  • empanadamnempanadamn 1,462 Posts
    thanks for posting those pics. those were pretty cool. hummingbirds are awesome!

    me trying to say hi to the baby birdies in the tree as a kid is also caused
    me to get divebombed by the mother who was trying to protect her nest.
    she shit on me twice. that was the beginning of me getting pooped on.
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