Should I be the first one in the US to be documented with bird flu, you heard it here first. Was walking Navy Pier in Chicago with the family today and the clouds started getting a little darker. Felt a couple drops hit my hand and arm. Nope, not water or bird shit.
It was blood.
Not exactly a Carrie moment, but still pretty freaky. I immediately thought I had somehow sprung a leak (getting older and not sure if that is part of it or not) but there was nothing. Wife and kiddies are freaking out a little as well. No tall buildings or anything above us - only sky. We figured it had to have been a bird, although I immediately looked up when the drops hit (even before I looked at the drops themselves) and don't remember seeing anything but clouds.
So, I went to the nearest bathroom and washed up and that was that. In all of my 43 years wandering around this planet I can safely say I have never had blood rain down on me. Glad to get that "first" out of the way and not necessarily looking for seconds. Still trying to figure out how a bird (assuming that was the case) would be bleeding and flying unless it was sick. So just in case I got a direct dose of something nasty, be sure to name it the Y2K5SRT Epidemic of '06.
Should I be the first one in the US to be documented with bird flu, you heard it here first. Was walking Navy Pier in Chicago with the family today and the clouds started getting a little darker. Felt a couple drops hit my hand and arm. Nope, not water or bird shit.
It was blood.
Not exactly a Carrie moment, but still pretty freaky. I immediately thought I had somehow sprung a leak (getting older and not sure if that is part of it or not) but there was nothing. Wife and kiddies are freaking out a little as well. No tall buildings or anything above us - only sky. We figured it had to have been a bird, although I immediately looked up when the drops hit (even before I looked at the drops themselves) and don't remember seeing anything but clouds.
So, I went to the nearest bathroom and washed up and that was that. In all of my 43 years wandering around this planet I can safely say I have never had blood rain down on me. Glad to get that "first" out of the way and not necessarily looking for seconds. Still trying to figure out how a bird (assuming that was the case) would be bleeding and flying unless it was sick. So just in case I got a direct dose of something nasty, be sure to name it the Y2K5SRT Epidemic of '06.
Maybe it was just a bird with irritable bowel syndrome.
I was on the golf course about to putt in my ball when some flesh and a beak fell and landed right next to my ball, nearly hitting me. I looked up and there wasn't anything in the sky that I could see and there were no trees near the green either. I assumed that perhaps a predatory bird or perhaps a jet got ahold of a bird way up high and it took a while for the pieces to land. Weird though.
Should I be the first one in the US to be documented with bird flu, you heard it here first. Was walking Navy Pier in Chicago with the family today and the clouds started getting a little darker. Felt a couple drops hit my hand and arm. Nope, not water or bird shit.
It was blood.
That happens in Chicago all the time. Nothing to worry about.
You stopping by the store? We'll make up something good for you.
You stopping by the store? We'll make up something good for you.
Jumped off on Weber Road today to go to the gas station you recommended, where we then debated whether our Denali was E85 compatible or not. Screw it, we put in half E85 (20¢ per gallon cheaper) and half regular unleaded (10¢ more than the Shell across I-55). Curious how E85 doesn't show any octane rating. Truck ran fine, computer mileage showed a very slight decrease (of course we averaged 80-85 MPH most of the way home vs. 75 on the way up).
Anyway, we were going to come by and darken your door but didn't want to insult you with Giordanos on our breath from a previous meal (hey, it was late and we were hanging out on Rush Street). Nor did we know if you were slaving over hot ovens on a Sunday. So we hauled ass home with a heavy heart and PROMISE to stop by and harrass you in the very, very near future (I am flying up to Chi-town regularly now).
Sorry we f-ed it up this time and didn't stop in. We suck.
Chris, I'm surprised that with your experience at Whiteman AFB you have never been made aware of a little publicized fact about military jet aircraft. Single seat high performance jet aircraft that is. Did you ever wonder where those guys shit? They have a rectal collector boot that vents through a two inch tube just forward of the afterburners in the tail section. Pilots like to refer to this system as scat skivvies. NATOPS procedures call for a 5 second full burn if the pilot takes a shit to incinerate in place the fruits of the bowel and ensure none of the disgusting crap ever makes it to the ground. This works well if the pilot is compliant.
However, what likely occurred in your case was this. High performance aircraft such as the F/A-18 Super Hornet are capable of extreme "g" forces during maneuvers. Pilots use a combination of a "g" suit which compresses their lower extremities and extreme grunting both of which are directed at keeping the blood in the brain to prevent gray out. As a result of the repeated extreme grunting, 95% of these pilots suffer from world record distended protruding thrombosed external hemorrhoids. Now picture this. The pilot pulls hard positive "g's" during ACM and focused on the task at hand, is not aware of the leakage that occurs from grunting into the collector boot. Then as he pushes the stick hard forward inducing significant negative "g's", the hemorrhoidal blood blob is wistfully ejected from the vent tube as a fine mist only to reform into tiny droplets and meander aimlessly toward the earth and under only the rarest of happenstance land on the person of unsuspecting befuddled civilians. I don't know what the odds were on you taking a strike, but they are right up there with winning the powerball.
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I was on the golf course about to putt in my ball when some flesh and a beak fell and landed right next to my ball, nearly hitting me. I looked up and there wasn't anything in the sky that I could see and there were no trees near the green either. I assumed that perhaps a predatory bird or perhaps a jet got ahold of a bird way up high and it took a while for the pieces to land. Weird though.
Did you make the putt? It seems to me that would kinda throw you off, and you might miss an otherwise easy shot, due to the shock factor of it all.
Should I be the first one in the US to be documented with bird flu, you heard it here first. Was walking Navy Pier in Chicago with the family today and the clouds started getting a little darker. Felt a couple drops hit my hand and arm. Nope, not water or bird shit.
It was blood.
The good news is that Bird Flu is a respiratory virus so gastrointestinal bleeding is not a usual component of that illnes.
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