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[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by snowsub

And using the elephants as dominos

Or user larger dominos.

[Bellman]

In tune with Skybirds original irony - can we applaud the fastidiousness of the legal process
Conclusion of the BBC article:

The bird was kept in a government freezer after its killing became a criminal matter.

It will be placed on top of a box of dominoes in an exhibition on sparrows next year.

:rotfl:

[Abraham]

I am a proud Dutchman and I think this proves that our country got it's priorities right!

Maybe you think - like me - that Skybird has a self interest in protecting the life of birds. Nevertheless the bird in question was an European Sparrow, which is fastly getting extinct in our country (due to modern building styles) and is protected by law.

The Domino record attempt was held in a huge hal in Friesland and the bird just happened to be inside this hal. It is not recorded that anybody let the sparrow in (it was a wild bird).

The bird was shot with a high powered air gun that severed one of her (the bird was female) wings at the root and caused immediate failure of her fligh capabilities.

I think the media exposure was overdone and resting the remains of the sparrow in the Rotterdam Museum of Nature is in my view nothing more but a publicity stunt.

However, there is a more serious matter concerning discrimination in this case that has escaped much of the public attention. During the record attempt there was a moment that the dominoes failed to fall. A hand of one of the 'officials' who were seated at critical points was captured on camera "helping" the record attempt, by throwing over some domino tiles, as could clearly be seen in slow motion. this is one of the reasons that the record attempt is still under investigation by the people of the Guiness Book of Records.
Although this man caused more domino tiles to fall than the bird did some days earlier, no punitive action was taken against this man. I find that a clear case of discrimination between man and animal.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Bellman

Skybirds original irony