Rats with wings. I hate them -- but do you know what I hate even more? This occurrence that happened to me today. Now, normally, I would think this was hilarious. Normally. However, I did not. Here's why:
1. It was just too graphic.
2. I was chewing gum - which was almost like eating while it happened.
3. I kept thinking about it as I walked away and chewed my gum.
4. I kept thinking about it as I ate my sandwich later.
5. It made me feel like ralfing.
As I walked out of my apartment today, I tried to cross the street. I had my headphones in and saw that a truck was slowly rolling towards me. I stopped (in between two parked cars) and waited for it to pass. As it rolled through, I heard a loud POP! and immediately assumed a tire was the victim. I looked down past my flip-flops assuming I'd see a nail, broken glass, etc... Instead I saw a horrific feat!
As the pop rang in my ears, I looked down (within milliseconds of hearing said noise) and saw a pigeon, in "seated"/resting position get run over by the truck's back passenger side wheel. It was not more than 5 feet from me. As it popped, the pigeon's torso erupted with a volcanic burst of blood that must have shot at least a foot in the air! It gushed up and towards my bare feet. I strategically stood in the flamingo stance and removed at least on foot from danger. Had I not moved it, it would have been slathered in pigeon blood! UGH!
I just stared at its corpse, horrified. As I looked up, a bunch of people had turned around (the sound was that loud) and stared at me empathetically. Everyone had that grossed out/disgusted face. You know which one I am talking about:
I nonchalantly stepped away from its lifeless body, continued my walk to the bank, called Hilo, mass-text-messaged people, and have remained extremely scarred ever since. Yet, it didn't stop me in returning back to the scene of the crime and taking a picture before I went upstairs. Ugh. I'd say enjoy, but you won't. At this point, the corpse was moved farther into the street and had been run over quite a few times:
Sorry, friends. I just couldn't bare this alone. Please forgive me...
Disgusted,
The T
I've decided to include some great responses from the mass-text-message I sent out:
Me: Ugh. I just ended up 5 feet away from a truck running over a pigeon. It made a popping sound & blood squirted out like a volcano! It almost bled on my feet!
Zach: Haha, I just got a boner...I mean 6 boners!
Denise: Only this would happen to you!
Brando: Gross cool sad n awsome
Hitler: Like a road pimple
KT, feigning Japanese accent: HORRY SMOK!
Jeremy: wtf? just terrible.
Also, this whole ordeal reminded me of something I gawked at during my Chicago visit:
2 comments:
aaaack, it has meat coming out of it still. GROSS. Other pigeons are gonna eat that! ewwwwwwwwwwww. ps, i'm glad you took the picture.
pps, wouldn't it be a testament to life if we all went that way. With a fantastic POP!
grody to the max!
(but thanks for sharing, and especially for the pic!)
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