Sunday, April 12, 2009

The Crow

You think cock-fighting is bad? A crow in my neighborhood makes those roosters look like gentle little pets in comparison.
A couple of weekends ago, I noticed a crow wing laying on the stairs leading to the front door. Eww. Later on that day, I discovered through word on the street--literally, a woman was taking a walk with her kids, telling them this story--that two crows were in a fight, and one tore the other's wing off. Whoa.
Well, it's gotten even gorier. Yesterday, on the same set of stairs, there it was: a crow HEAD. That's right, I said HEAD. No body, just a head and bloody stump of a neck. In the same location as the wing of a few weeks ago.
That's really creepy. Not just creepy, it's ominous, I think.

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