Cascade Crew

chevymad · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject: So mad at the moment.

Was sitting here at the computer when I kept hearing a noise. Thought it was the dog. Finally looked outside and saw the dog wasnt doing anything. Looked out towards the barn and I see a big raven attacking the 87. He totally scratched up the drivers fender. Crying or Very sad

I go outside and he runs off. So I park the car back inside the barn and close the main doors.

Just a bit later I'm heading out to the barn to paint my tailgate. I hear the same noise, this time he's attacking the 74. He has his foot caught in the hood. I should have wrung his neck right then. But he gets loose and flys away. No damage just scratched primer. So I go on out to the barn and start mixing primer.

Now I hear the same freaking noise. I look out and he's attacking the soft top on my jeep. I head for the house to get the 20 gauge. Come out and of course he's flying off. Just a bit out of range. I fire off 2 shots. He heads for the hills.

I'm walking past my truck with the shotgun in my hand.. And I look, there's 4 big holes eaten in my tonneau and scratches all over the back glass. Confused

So now here I am with a torn up tonneau cover on a rig i'm going to try to sell in the next week.

A bit ago Deb comes home and I go out to show her the damage. I bring the gun with me. A police car goes by then comes back and into the driveway. Officer says shots were reported, scared an old lady. I told him what happened. Old lady reported 6 shots! LOL I fired all of 2.

Hopefully thats enough excitement for awhile. Here's some pics.

Damage to the bird.

Tonneau

Look at the back window too.

QwkTrip · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 3:20 am Post subject:

You're just not going to feel right until you shoot that bird. Hope somebody else doesn't get the satisfaction first.

QwkTrip · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:37 pm Post subject:

Apparently I'm the only person that cares and you're only friend.

In that case you're screwed. Laughing

chevymad · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:52 pm Post subject:

I noticed.

Tonight he's back. Came home just as he was taking a nice blackberry crap on the truck. Ran in for the gun.. and he's gone.. but i'm waiting for him...

At lunch today I discovered that he did get the Jeep too. I had thought he was only attacking the roof, but I failed to see where he scratched the crap out of the hood near one of the latches. Crying or Very sad

Looks like these will buff out though.

QwkTrip · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:27 pm Post subject:

Shhh! Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet. I'm Huntin' Wavens!

91RSVert · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:07 pm Post subject:

Just make sure you get the bird, and not the ride. Nothing would piss you off more then that.

IROCDave · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:58 pm Post subject:

Wonder what you did to piss him off?

If you really want to take out some vengence, catch it alive and unharmed. Spray paint it orange and let it go. Trust me, it wont last long and will suffer it's brutal ending by it's buddies.

Seen it happen on a job on Micro Softs campus. So did about 100 MS employees. The iron workers that painted the bird got canned and are not allowed back on the campus.

chevymad · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:05 pm Post subject:

He seems to be a loner anyway. Don't usually see Raven's together like crows. I'll be happy he's gone.. no matter how it happens.

iansane · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:33 pm Post subject:

QwkTrip · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:43 pm Post subject:

20 ga. just doesn't seem balanced with the severity of the situation. It lacks a certain entertainment value needed to feel the right kind of satisfaction when the target goes down. You need something.... bigger. Twisted Evil

BluFbdy · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:27 pm Post subject:

What the hell would cause a raven to do that?

QwkTrip · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject:

I live with a bird and I have a theory: It's just a jerk.

Ravens are smart like parrots. My wife has a parrot and it's a jerk. It's not abused. It's not because I don't know how to relate to it. It's not a health problem. It's just a jerk. A real-deal birdie a##hole. I hate it and it hates me.

BluFbdy · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:46 pm Post subject:

Domestic birds can have quite unique personalities, I've had quite a few and some are just pricks but for a wild raven to decide to attack 2 cars at random that's just odd

chevymad · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:30 am Post subject:

Raven attacked all 4 cars and possibly a tractor.

iansane · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:48 am Post subject:

Motion activate paintball gun to stun it and then you can think of whatever diabolical retaliation you want. Laughing

fiveoformula · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:37 am Post subject:

Sounds like he'll be back. That thing needs to be stopped!

BluFbdy · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:45 am Post subject:

Dewey316 · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:15 pm Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8

enough said.

fiveoformula · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:31 pm Post subject:

OMG the part with the chicken!!! Hahaha. I think for this bird it should be more leathal though.

Xophertony · Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:31 pm Post subject:

WTF. how does this even happen?