Hundreds dead from flying under the influence in Memphis!

[jonmulzer]

Now that I got your attention, read the story.

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/arti...EWS01/90228006

[DUD]

Had not heard about that, but all things are possible. Bill

[BobSch]

When I was growing up we had that problem with both birds and squirrels. The only thing funnier that watching a bombed tree-rat trying to cross a phone line was watching a robin trying to land on the same line—he'd come in high and miss the wire, then come in low and catch it about knee-high and spin around the wire before dropping toward the ground and recovering.

Hours of amusement for a bored eleven-year-old in the days before video games.

[crokett]

We had a small orchard at the house I grew up in. One of my parents' friends worked for a big orchard and would come over and tend it. Anyhoo, more than once I saw drunken birds, squirrels, etc. They would eat the fermented fruit that was lying on the ground.

[jackellis]

Pyracanthas in our back yard produced lots of fermented fruit. I wonder if that's how humans acquired their taste for...fermented beverages?

[Mr__Bill]

My father told the story of the old woman's ducks that got drunk eating the mash of a neighbors still. she was plucking them when she realized they were not dead. They were some mad ducks!

Bill

[L. D. Jeffries]

I guess birds/animals are the same as humans. We had a grape arbor when we lived in Boise. Robins and others would eat the grapes on the unreachable top vines..especially when they were old and fermented. Lots of drunk robins on the lawn. Or maybe it was the same one, over and over. Amusing to watch anyway!

[BearPipes-1]

Pyracanthas in our back yard produced lots of fermented fruit

Oh, yeah. Growing up a few miles down Fremont Avenue from Jack's vicinity, we had a large living room window and a hedge of pyracantha bushes. When those berries overripened, we'd have daily birdstrikes on that window. I loved it when that happened with friends over, for the big-eye look they'd give.

I think I got roped into removing those bushes, though. Pokey.