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Man dies after magpie attack
September 5, 2003

A ROGUE magpie has been captured and destroyed after fatally injuring one man and seriously injuring a tourist.

A Mildura man, 74, received severe eye injuries when a local magpie swooped from trees in the Victorian town.

The man, who collapsed after the attack, died on Tuesday night at Melbourne's Royal Eye and Ear Hospital.

A South Korean tourist attacked by the same magpie was taken to hospital.

Department of Sustainability and Environment officers destroyed the magpie.

A coroner will investigate the man's death, the cause of which is still unknown.

Some Magpies swoop during the spring nesting season.

The Courier-Mail

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 
Yikes! I would'a never thunk it! (Would have liked pictures with the article, though )
 

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Posted by Pod (Member # 941) on :
 
aren't most magpies usually black?
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
grrrr spelling Nazis... you got me on that one..


AJ
 

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Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
 
Erik, ask and ye shall recieve: birds gone mad!! When birds attack!
 

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Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
Damn, even the birds in Australia can kick your a$$.
 

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 
I love Hitchcock! Thanks!
 

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Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
 
Wow. I thought this thread was going to be about a new species of red magpie.

(btw, Banna, you can edit the title of the thread )
 

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Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
Of course, then several of the comments won't make sense...
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
yeah and if I edit I'll get yelled at again. Ahh it isn't a mistake to be terribly ashamed of. I don't know even now if I thought the correct spelling and typed it wrong or not. I've tried to spell both of them several times since and I do them both backwards about 1 out of every 3 times.

I'm not a writer and if I was, that's what editors like JonBoy are for.

AJ
 

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Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
 
I don't usually watch it (honest!), but last Friday's America's Home Video had a very funny bit. A little boy was showing off his prize rodent (rat, hamster, does it matter?) on video. He put it on top of his cage for a better view. Out of nowhere, a raptor hawk or falcon swoops down, nabs it and flies off.
 

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Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 
Sigh, I opened this thread hoping to see the red magpie of prophecy.
 

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Posted by Professor Funk (Member # 5608) on :
 
It killed him?!?

No way!

*dons protective headgear for the walk home*
 

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 
That was funny, Morbo. But did you hear that they've suspended the falcon program at NYC Central Park, because one of the raptors grabbed a hapless chihuahua, thinking it was a rat?

Now that's funny!

[ September 05, 2003, 01:31 PM: Message edited by: Erik Slaine ]
 

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