OSTRICH LOOSE ON GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE!

[matcom]

where the HELL is homeland security!

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SAN FRANCISCO --Commuters are used to traffic backups during the rush-hour commute on the Golden Gate Bridge. But even this had to throw some of them for a loop: An ostrich got loose from a minivan Monday and started roaming around near the toll plaza on the bridge.

Ron Love, the owner of Love Farms, was transporting two of the odd-looking birds in the back of his van. Love was stopped in traffic when he suddenly accelerated, jolting one of the ostriches, who smashed through the back window of the van and got loose on the bridge.

The ostrich began running around on the bridge, stopping traffic for about eight minutes before police were able to move it out of traffic.

"It was quite an adventure," Love said. "Strange things always seem to happen with ostriches. I guess this proves it."

The ostrich had road rash from the fall but was not seriously hurt and was resting comfortably back home, California Highway Patrol Sgt. Wayne Ziese said.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/08/30/ostrich_gets_loose_on_golden_gate_bridge?mode=PF

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. That's nothing!

Traffic was backed up for miles on the PA Turnpike after a truck overturned.

The truck was filled with... goats!! And it seems as though some of the goats are missing!!

Coincidence? Or signs of a terrorist plot? I think we all know the answer to that one!

[underpants]

2. -response from NEw York City natives-

Oh man sh*t like that happens in my neighborhood every week

[Birthmark]

3. Thanks.

I needed that. :)

[zbdent]

4. Was it running away to Aruba

to avoid a marriage? No? Then it's not news . . .

[Taverner]

5. You see - this is why I live here in the city by the bay

Shit like this only happens in San Francisco...

[NV Whino]

6. Road rash!

:rofl:

Sorry, but that cracked me up. Poor ostrich.

[Blue-Jay]

7. Apparently, that sort of thing happens everywhere.