Friday, September 20, 2002|
This ranks somewhere between a No Code and a Comfort Care. A story from New York Times reporter Richard L. Jones, tells of a 9-11 tribute that just didn't fly. In Jersey City, the intent was to have a flock of doves soaring past the Manhattan skyline. So the organizers went to a new Jersey poultry market and bought the birds. There was a problem: they bought pigeons, not doves. Who cares? if you're a pigeon, you do. Pigeons don't soar. They barely fly. According to Jones, "many of the pigeons plunged into the Hudson River, smacked into plate glass windows and careened into the crowd."
I'm sure no one there found this humorous, but I can't help but wonder if anyone else remembers a TV show called "WKRP in Cincinnati". The news director of the radio station held a Thanksgiving promotion where he dropped turkeys from a helicopter, not knowing, of course . . . |
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