[Caution: totally meaningless, illogical and unscientific material ahead]
So, how do they? Do they sit on a railway track and wait for the wheels to crush them? Or do they make a blind low flight at a busy city intersection? Do they suddenly stop flapping their wings mid-flight while at a great height? Or do they fly into a forest fire?
Personally, birds are way too happy a kind to kill themselves - and other than natural causes, die only when the rare disgruntled one from amongst them decides to have his revenge upon his brethren. That's when, in an equally rare expression of brutality, it pecks his fellow species in the most romantic of ways, bursting open the jugular and, well, the bird has had it then - it'll bleed to death.
Of course, everyone's got a different opinion on this matter. Pranjal, ex-Fagnelite and founder of A Rational Mind, has this to say:
So, how do they? Do they sit on a railway track and wait for the wheels to crush them? Or do they make a blind low flight at a busy city intersection? Do they suddenly stop flapping their wings mid-flight while at a great height? Or do they fly into a forest fire?
Personally, birds are way too happy a kind to kill themselves - and other than natural causes, die only when the rare disgruntled one from amongst them decides to have his revenge upon his brethren. That's when, in an equally rare expression of brutality, it pecks his fellow species in the most romantic of ways, bursting open the jugular and, well, the bird has had it then - it'll bleed to death.
Of course, everyone's got a different opinion on this matter. Pranjal, ex-Fagnelite and founder of A Rational Mind, has this to say:
"By flying into telephone/electric wires or by flying into tall buildings/cliffs."
Another ex-Fagnelite Vijay Nair opines:
"They go and drown in water".
But grabbing pole position with a hot lap at the fag end of the qualifying is a fellow lunatic on the grass Khasnis baBa of Chalti Ka Naam Gadi fame, who has this to say: If you think this blog is getting ridiculous (you did notice the cheap self-promotion in the guise of promoting fellow bloggers, right?) and is giving the low standards of (insert random English broadsheet name here) a run for its money, SMS A else SMS N to 9833037446. If you think that that poll is even more ridiculous, well, I can't help it okay?
"Teach the bird to use microsoft vista touchscreeen with his beak."
despite the cheap promotional tactics, i'm still reading. cant' a bird just hold it's breath? or drown? or tweet till death?
ReplyDeletedid u forget to add space between .. vistatouch and screenwith ? :P
ReplyDeletetyping too fast inbetween eggjams can be serenating ....
@Elda
ReplyDeleteI like #1 and #3.
@baBa
Whoops!
Eh? Never thought of it. But I really doubt if birds have ever committed suicide. Why give them ideas?
ReplyDeletehow bout the bird flying into a jet? or right into its engines? then the bird will surely die.but also lots of ppl too will die! :D
ReplyDelete@Mainak
ReplyDeleteMy sentiments exactly :)
@Pranjal
Morbid but funny, that! :P