I just can't make this goofy stuff up....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcas...1,3608404.story

Nice to see people have their priorities in order. :(

You know what? I thought that too. Did they have to shoot the poor bird? Crimeny. I wish the shot had missed and hit the dratted dominoes...

Just where in the heck is PETA when they really ARE needed? :P


Poor bird - anyone that devotes their time to such an endeavor deserves to have it wasted by a little birdie.

Sounds like little birdie flew into the wrong coffee shop. Seriously, four million dominoes? In Holland? They had to be high.

Aren't they always? ;)

Nation mourns bird killed in domino shooting
Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:26 AM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch animal lovers are mourning a sparrow shot dead after it fluttered into an exhibition hall and knocked over thousands of dominoes set up in preparation for a world record attempt.

The sparrow will be commemorated in a live Dutch television broadcast of the domino-toppling Friday after a wave of national outrage at the shooting.

"We know we are responsible for a lot of emotion in the country and we realize we couldn't go on without properly marking this," said Jeroen van Waardenberg, a spokesman for reality TV company Endemol, the firm behind "Big Brother."

An exterminator shot the sparrow Monday in the northern city of Leeuwarden after fears the bird could upset more of the 4 million dominoes which staff had spent weeks balancing on their edges for the record attempt.

Dutch animal rights groups are outraged, especially as sparrows are a protected species in the Netherlands.

Hundreds of condolence messages have been posted on a website for the sparrow (www.dodemus.nl), which has attracted 200,000 hits.

Yup, they're high. :P

Domino world record set despite sparrow's death
Associated Press in Amsterdam
Saturday November 19, 2005
The Guardian


A Dutch TV show knocked down a chain of more than 4.1m dominoes over the course of two hours yesterday in a world record, but organisers said the event was overshadowed by the killing of a sparrow, shot with an air rifle on Monday because it knocked down 23,000 of the dominoes and disrupted the event.

Bird protection groups were angered by the killing, more than 5,000 people signed a condolence register on an impromptu website to honor the bird, and it emerged that the house sparrow, though common, is classified as an endangered species in the Netherlands. :oops:

Whew...I was so worried they wouldn't get the record! B)