It’s been ages since I’ve taken a life and it’s something you never get used to.
On Sunday I took a plump pigeon from out of the sky on the fourteenth hole at a golf coarse I can’t even pronounce. The two lads with me have played for a combined total of thirty years and had never seen it before.
There he was. One minute flapping his wings chatting pigeon gossip and chick banging, and the next clobbered with a cheap miscued golf ball fired from the hands of a rank beginner who’d swallowed three pints of beer with lunch.
All I can say is, he was an unlucky bastard. The ball locked onto him like a missile.
I suppose he could have been an evil pigeon taken by karma….no that’s not right.
RIP Mr Pigeon..Sorry about that.
Murray Swift, 3 months ago
WOW… rarer than a hole in one!! Very memorable :)
Murray Swift, 3 months ago
P.S. They tell me pigeon pie is rather nice.
Trudi ~, 3 months ago
l hope you are busy drawing a cartoon to go with this David, Lol
Lisadee, 3 months ago
Weird! Yes i understand your remorse…you are forgiven…. yeah there is def’ a cartoon in that one!
Wendy Slee KMA, 3 months ago
oh that is funny in a very dark way…... so THATS what they mean by a birdie…
(thank goodness it wasn’t an Eagle!)
Anne van Alkemade
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3 months ago
Ah, a poor birdie on the ninth. Never mind David. Fate is cruel sometimes and I guess it’s some small consolation he was an introduced species instead of, say, a rare grass parrot or black cockatoo or something like that.
Karen Cougan, 3 months ago
Oh dear, well they do say when you number is up…...........geez what a way to go
xkc
Tom Godfrey, 3 months ago
I’v heard of an eagle but not a pigeon. Is that a term reserved for beginners :) The clay pigeon guys would be green with envy. “What?” you might say -”...you guys need a gun…and one that fires hundreds of pellets simultaneously…and you have to aim?”