Eagle snatches baby?

[weltschmerz]

Oh, how awful!

[constanz22]

Um, it was fake...

[Tiny]

Hence the Winky smiley... no Poe's Law/corralary involved.

[swamp]

WE NEED TO BAN EAGLES!!!!!!

[Jaguar]

It's fake, but can we ban something else ?

[Colleenz]

We need armed teachers to shoot the eagles!

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Dec 20, 2012 10:42:45 GMT -5 swamp said:

WE NEED TO BAN EAGLES!!!!!!

Yes...that argument is just as stupid as the one on banning guns! I agree.

[ihearyou2]

Can we ban, Ban it doesn't work very well.

[weltschmerz]

I don't know what it is, but Montreal seems to be the prank capitol of the world, lately.
Last week, the Drudge Report and other media fell for the idea that the dogs in Quebec have to be bilingual.

[weltschmerz]

A fictitious story about a controversial Montreal bylaw proposal requiring dogs to be comfortable in the country's two official languages has rippled through the realms of social media and fooled even some seasoned news sites.

The story, a deadpan parody crafted by CBC Radio's This is That, went viral this week after the show posted a segment on its website about the "untenable chaos" that was rife in Montreal dog parks because some animals were receiving commands in French and others in English.

An interview featured a man with a French accent posing as a councillor and answering the host's questions

The show's website included a quote from a phoney Montreal city councillor, Benoit LaDouce.

"Dog parks in our city are chaotic and communication is at the heart of the conflict," the fake city official is quoted as saying.

The post spread quickly on Twitter and within hours had hundreds of re-tweets. It was picked up by social media aggregator Digg and linked to by the Drudge Report and a blog post on New York Magazine.

The latter later issued a correction, stating: "Apparently this is a fake news story produced by a fake news show. So, never mind."

This is That staff watched in awe as the story was gobbled up by social media and diffused internationally overnight.


www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/12/14/fake-canadian-dog-story-drudge-digg_n_2302648.html

[ihearyou2]

Here's the back story to the eagle video...

digitallife.today.com/_news/2012/12/20/16041855-animation-students-get-an-a-for-viral-eagle-hoax-video?lite=

[thyme4change]

We had one of those huge owls in our backyard. We only have like 1/3rd of an acre, don't have a single tree, and live in the middle of a pretty big city - so it is a big deal. He was sitting on our telephone poll in the backyard and looking at all the backyards he could see. It was dark, so surely he could see us better than we could see him. I let the kids stay out there, but I shooed the cats inside. I had heard that a hawk or an owl was living nearby and that is why our pigeon population is now extinct. Cats are pretty big, but, it wasn't worth finding out exactly what an owl can big up in those talons.

[Angel!]

Those big owls will kill small dogs, so they could kill a cat too I would imagine. We had one of those hanging around for a few days & we wouldn't let our small dog outside alone.