Thread: Wild animal attack NZ!

Originally Posted by uk_exile

I hope he's ok about it long term. It's illogical I know but I'm still wary all birds due to turkey attack at similar age. Can feed ducks at park but bugger going near swans, geese, turkeys etc.

Yep had a mate that told me he was afraid of birds. Im like sure But anyway he told this funny ass story about nearly getting run over by a double decker buses the first day in London when he visited Trafalgar Square and the pigeons flew up in mass....he tried to get away and ran full tilt out into the road. Dame meeting your maker by way of a Route master.

When he told this tail of woe I did not believe him for one second. We were in Egypt at the time travelling down to Luxor we arrived and were staying in this backpackers in this one way street. It was Ramadan and so all the stores were closed during the day. I had seen this rotisserie chicken joint. Now they need to do there chickens fresh as they have no freezers and who would want to trust a frozen Egyptian chicken? We did our visits to the valley of the kings and other temples and were going to catch the train back down to Cairo that night. We got ready to leave and as we walked past this chicken shop I grabbed my mate by the arm and turned him sideways so he got a full face view of old mate chopping the head of this bird and throwing it into the 44 gallon drum, where it proceeded to jump and flap around spraying blood in all directions.

He was a biggish chap and took out a few of the scrawny curio sellers in his head long rush, backpack flailing as Egyptians were bowled over with there dishdas billowing into the wind. Looking like some Matrix movie gone bad.

Once we caught up with him I had to get him a few black market beers to still his shacking nerves. He saw the funny side of it. Lucky for me.