Vultures eat French tourist. “There were only bones, clothes and shoes left,” said Major Didier Pericou of the gendarmerie. New EU regulations are causing the vultures to starve all over Europe so they’re attacking live animals, threatening people, and in this case they ate a woman’s body before rescuers could get there. (Everyone is optimistically assuming she was dead from the fall when the vultures arrived…)
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Could this explain why she whose name must not be mentioned, isn't here?
She DID rant and rave about France. . . .
Are you talking about Oblovia? I don't think she's still alive, haven't heard from her in almost 18 months. I think the troll bait we used last time killed her under her own bridge.
It's either the sequester or it's Bush's fault.
Law of unintended consequences. Clearly, the fall carrion her away, which is offal.
OMG wow...
Not even going to try and top that one. Ya'all have at it.
See what happens when you mess with Mother Nature? She bites back when riled up!
Perhaps vulture capitalism is impacting tourism? I prey you don't have a bone to pick with me on this one considering the gravity of it.
Slim pickins after you and Sidekick.
Reminded me of the old hippie poster, Patience my a$$, I'm gonna kill something.
WOW! Did a search for a picture and found original posters selling for $136 on eBay...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Patience-My-Ass-1971-Black-light-Poster-original-Buzzards-desert-Printed-USA-/130729585025?pt=Art_Posters&hash=item1e70172981
It's funny when you realize that your childhood memories are almost antiques, isn't it? OK - funny may not be the right word.
Makes me sad I didn't hold on to some of that stuff those memories are made of.
Once animals get a taste for human flesh they hunt for it. This is actually terrible news.
Sounds like the Democrats, they turn vulture when they run out of other people's money. Perhaps they should change from the Donkey to the Vulture.
I think French president François Hollande's governing Socialist party beat the vultures there.
Adam Berendt: Imagine vultures attacking for food to survive after the political vultures ban their food supply.
Yes, she was most likely dead already. However, it's still a major shift in behavior. Vultures really prefer their food to be at least 3 days old before partaking in a carcass.
I have seen vultures start the appetizer course before the entree is dead. If it can't really get up and run, the vultures will get started. And keep eating at the buffet until all the goodies are gone.
When my two daughters were really young I used to take them hiking, and one time we were driving home afterward on some backwoods gravel road when I saw a bunch of wild turkeys out of the corner of my eye. I stopped and started backing up, saying, "Hey, girls, wanna see some wild turkeys?" They were mucho enthusiastic about seeing wild turkeys. They didn't even know there were wild turkeys. They quickly jumped over to the driver's side backseat window and stuck their heads out. Lo and behold, when I reached the birds and we all got a good look, they were turkey vultures, about twenty of them, feasting on a giant bloated foul-smelling deer carcasse half in the road. All I heard from the back seat was, "Ewww! Yuck!" and we had ham for Thanksgiving that year.
What wine did they serve with the tourist?
A nice Bordeaux perhaps?
Chianti!
OMG I feel terrible for this woman. It is my hope she was dead but I feel so bad that I laughed at that.
300 meters fall, kinda hard to be alive at the bottom.
Sans classe, non raffinés, les barbares.
No time for wine, "They took 45 to 50 minutes to eat the body."
Putain de merde
Gotta be red wine with Tourist tartare.
Maybe a fine chiante and some fava beans???
With the liver, yes.
terrible