But What About the Poor Bird??

Maybe Mother Goose here has a solution! So everyone's all happy that the passengers of the US Airways flight that landed in the Hudson River are safe and sound. But what about the poor bird or birds that got sucked into the airplane's engine? I can't stop thinking about it.

~Imagine you're a goose~

There you are, just flying casually through the air, wondering why those poor wingless humans insist on shooting themselves through the air in clunky metal tubes. "God, they're so noisy! Whatever happened to peace and quiet?" Oh, sure, you've heard those urban myths about unsuspecting geese and other fellow fowl suspiciously disappearing when they get too close to those tube-thingys. Supposedly, you get sucked in somehow! "Yeah right--ooooh, that looks like some tasty grass down..."---whoooooosh! whirrrrrrr! grrrrind!

If this were happening to people, there would be marches on Washington! Petitions, campaigns to make the skies safer or to outlaw human flying machines! After all, the geese DO belong in the sky. If geese are religious, they would probably say we're going against what nature and God intended! "Witches fly, right? Well, humans must be using some black magic to get their fat asses so high up!" I can hear the fervent sermons now.

I heard a comedian mention how the US Airways pilot was having his revenge by eating a chicken sandwich. Ok, that's stupid. First, it wasn't a chicken that brought down the plane, but whatever. Second, don't you think "revenge" was having the poor goose sucked into the jet engine? How much more must the poor goose suffer? All the people lived--the goose is, well--cooked! (or scrambled, if you're picky)