Drunken Birds!
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:48 pm
Birds 'Drunk' On Berries Crash Into Building POSTED: 9:21 am EST February 11, 2005 COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The latest incidence of drunken flying isn't a problem for pilots but a bother to birds. Dozens of birds got tipsy from eating fermented holly berries and crashed into a glass-sided office building in South Carolina. Denise Wilkinson, who works in the building, said it was like watching something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Some of the birds were too looped to take off and were falling off their branches. Maintenance workers are trying to give their fine feathered friends a break. They're putting tape on the windows and covering the holly trees with nets to keep the birds away from the berries.