"bird poops in mouth" about sums it up
January 25, 2008 1:28 AM   Subscribe

Your next favorite news blooper. Wicked quick, single-link Youtube post. Nothing graphic, but skip it if you're eating.
posted by Mayor Curley (35 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: dumb, looks totally fake -- mathowie



 
I think it's fake.
posted by Pendragon at 1:43 AM on January 25, 2008


Hmmm. I think that guy brings the water suspiciously quickly - and I'm not convinced by his reaction when it craps on him. And roosting birds don't tend to poop like that. (A mispent youth as a twitcher.)

This is fake I think.
posted by Jofus at 1:44 AM on January 25, 2008


Photoshopped, totally.
posted by From Bklyn at 1:52 AM on January 25, 2008


Previously.
posted by louche mustachio at 1:54 AM on January 25, 2008


"Nothing graphic" is a very accurate description of this staged clip.
posted by fairmettle at 1:56 AM on January 25, 2008


It's certainly occurred to me that it could be fake, but I'm very cynical and think everything's staged. but I WANT TO BELIEVE!
posted by Mayor Curley at 2:07 AM on January 25, 2008


I WANT TO BELIEVE i didn't accidentally hit the fark button on my navigation toolbar.
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:11 AM on January 25, 2008 [2 favorites]


This post certainly left a bad taste in my mouth!

Ba-doom!

But seriously folks....What's the deal with airplane food, amirite?
posted by chillmost at 2:12 AM on January 25, 2008


If you think that's real, never become an actor.
posted by zardoz at 2:18 AM on January 25, 2008


2 birds, 1 reporter
posted by Christ, what an asshole at 2:54 AM on January 25, 2008 [6 favorites]


Photoshopped, totally.

It is obviously faked but I don't think it was Photoshopped at all. Is 'to photoshop' now a verb extended beyond it's original meaning of something actually being, er, photoshopped?
posted by ClanvidHorse at 3:24 AM on January 25, 2008


I believe everything I see. Still, I don't get understand how all of you can assume that this is fake so quickly. People don't have water on the set of a newscast? And even with the poor quality of the video you can tell it's not real bird crap? And his utterly repulsed spitting is bad acting? What does it look like when you spit?
posted by creasy boy at 3:24 AM on January 25, 2008


Methinks that the quonsar is strong in this thread.
posted by loquacious at 3:32 AM on January 25, 2008


I believe everything I see. Still, I don't get understand how all of you can assume that this is fake so quickly. People don't have water on the set of a newscast? And even with the poor quality of the video you can tell it's not real bird crap? And his utterly repulsed spitting is bad acting? What does it look like when you spit?

Maybe the fact there's no such thing as a Canadian brown finch. The fact that the boom mic guy would enter the lens during a live newsfeed. "Pear festival cancelled due to lack of funds" sandwiched in between news of Bhutto and Bush on the ticker. A reporter ruining the shot by going from sunlight into the shade. How everyone in the background is a. panicked, and b. audible, and no one laughing after strike 2. The "spit toothpaste" consistency of the bird shit. The logo has no station affiliate name or title. It's titled "Action News" but there's no developing news item to cover. The framing: "I recorded this last night" and no account for the reporter's name. The unnecessary TiVo blotter at the beginning. And of course the overacting.

But that's just me.
posted by Christ, what an asshole at 3:53 AM on January 25, 2008 [6 favorites]


There is a special place in hell reserved for you, Curley.
posted by Dizzy at 4:29 AM on January 25, 2008


Brilliant post. Magnificent. Best of the best of the web. Mayor Curley wins the internets. Now I can understand why he so often criticizes other MeFier's posts so harshly, why he's so often so spiteful and vindictive in his comments. I mean, look at the man's choice this time around for an FPP. You just can't top this. I am humbled.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:40 AM on January 25, 2008 [5 favorites]


There is a special place in hell reserved for you, Curley.

lucky bastard.

And I thought "Photoshopped" was the right and meet response to any OMGLOLAMIRITE video clip, while having no bearing on any apparent validity or falsity of the clip in question. Kind of like saying "wassup?"
posted by From Bklyn at 4:40 AM on January 25, 2008 [1 favorite]


Innacurate use of the hilarious tag, though.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:41 AM on January 25, 2008


Most interesting. I believed. Then I searched on "Canadian brown finch" and only got links to the video. ::sigh::

However, birds in trees certainly do drop the bombs. Walking around DC in the evening, after work, I learned to avoid sidewalks with trees overhead, where the bombs were all over the sidewalk.
posted by Goofyy at 5:02 AM on January 25, 2008


I believe it's real only because I, myself, have had my mouth pooped in by a foul feathered fiend, and my reaction was almost exactly the same.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 5:10 AM on January 25, 2008


Oh damn. I googled just like Goofyy did. Oh well. I bet that bird sings only using brown notes, eh?
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 5:12 AM on January 25, 2008


What do you do if a bird shits on you?

Don't go out with her again.
posted by jontyjago at 5:14 AM on January 25, 2008


In a faraway land, legend is told of the mystical Fufu bird, a bird given the powers of life and death by its creator. According to the legend, if the Fufu bird drops its wastes on a person, that person must not wipe it off for doing so would be an insult to the mighty Fufu bird and will cause that person to drop dead on the spot.

Many a traveler in this land has been warned about wiping away the Fufu droppings; many of those travelers have thought this story to be ridiculous, and have wiped away the droppings. They all died.

Moral of the story: If the Fu shits, wear it.
posted by jbickers at 5:28 AM on January 25, 2008 [2 favorites]


Those brown purple finches (of Canada)

I'm not saying this video is real, but there are brown finches in Canada.
posted by secret about box at 5:44 AM on January 25, 2008


Yes, their name is "purple", not "brown", but you get the point. If you don't, you're a pedant. Also :P
posted by secret about box at 5:46 AM on January 25, 2008


This post is crap.
posted by Mister_A at 6:02 AM on January 25, 2008 [1 favorite]


Total crap. The guy on the left can't even run on with a bottle of water convincingly.
posted by fire&wings at 6:08 AM on January 25, 2008


I'd like to say that I think all local news stations should be called "Action [channel] News". It should be an FCC regulation.
posted by secret about box at 6:09 AM on January 25, 2008


Allright, those are all very convincing arguments that its fake.

Which makes me wonder: who goes to all the trouble to fake that?
posted by creasy boy at 6:16 AM on January 25, 2008


Quite literally, Shit Sandwich.
posted by dbiedny at 6:43 AM on January 25, 2008


I liked the part with the bird poop.
posted by brain_drain at 7:04 AM on January 25, 2008 [1 favorite]


OH. GOD. A. BIRD. SHIT. IN. HIS. MOUTH!!!!


Moral of the story: If the Fu shits, wear it.

*steps to the line, hurls shot glass into the fireplace*

posted by Divine_Wino at 7:07 AM on January 25, 2008


Dizzy: "There is a special place in hell reserved for you, Curley."

Noobs are scared about their first post because if you mess up, people tell you to go to hell.
posted by lostburner at 7:10 AM on January 25, 2008


Moral of the story: If the Fu shits, wear it.

I want to stab you over the internet.
posted by loquacious at 7:20 AM on January 25, 2008


I want to stab you over the internet.

Well, you know what they say.
posted by secret about box at 7:28 AM on January 25, 2008


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