Trucks

[_aphoticmemory]

I apologize, since this isn't very "wtf" worthy (okay, maybe a little). This is more of a, "Good jesus, does anyone know what the crap this is?" post

Comments

[superplanetary]

Scariest. Birds. Ever.

Love you! <3

[dragonwrites]

the scariest bird ever is the moa.

[feanorian]

Hmm. I'd vote cassowary.

[dragonwrites]

but a moa would be twice the size of a cassowary!

[never_andalways]

True.
But a cassowary has got to be the most terrifying living bird. When I was being trained to work with them, the guy who taught me handed me a large push broom and told me "This is all we can give you to defend yourself. Godspeed, and may you return with your limbs intact." >.

[dragonwrites]

i believe that. here in tucson we have an ostrich petting farm (yes, i know! at your own risk) and those birds are frightening.

[zarathus]

I wish moas were still around. I'd love to see one.

[logansrogue]

I will always mourn the dodo. Think of all the fun you could have with a giant, stupid pigeon.

[dragonwrites]

yeah, that's part of the reason they're not around.

[logansrogue]

Yeah but I wouldn't have eaten them.

[punkrawkpyro]

Apparently they didn't even taste good anyway. But they didn't run away when you walked up to them. I don't get how people's first instinct is to kill them. Bah.

[logansrogue]

If I were those people of long ago, I'd have realised the pet empire I had on my hands. Who wouldn't want a pet dodo?

[dragonwrites]

i saw a moa reconstruction in the natural history museum in prague. very cool! they have pretty much one of every animal you can think of.

[feanorian]

Cassowaries are fucking fierce! They form gangs and disembowel people!

*reads up on Haast's Eagles, which i didn't know about*
Yeah, they're kind of scary too.

[dragonwrites]

never have a been more pleased to live in a country where enormous birds do not gang up and disembowel people.

[feanorian]

I don't live in scarybird country; i've just seen a few scarybirds being scary.
I live in a country where the most dangerous beasts are all in business or politics, and most of the wildlife is friendly by comparison. Yay.