Bald eagle crashes into window as crowd chants "USA! USA! USA!"

[Enrique]

http://gawker.com/bald-eagle-crashes-into-window-as-crowd-chants-usa-us-1216413636

A special spirit day at Oral Roberts University took a tragicomical turn last week when a bald eagle released into the school's Christ Chapel by a professional handler crashed into a window just as students began chanting "USA! USA!"

The eagle was unharmed, but many of the students could be heard screaming at the sight of America's national animal wiping out in metaphorical fashion.

The bird had apparently become disoriented from the crowd's patriotic hollering.

"It was a bit shocking to see, but we're thankful the eagle is OK," an ORU spokeswoman told Tulsa World.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. Someone should be fined and the eagle taken from the irresponsible handler...

The poor bird was being used as a nationalistic PROP, for Christ's sake!!!!

[Enrique]

2. i agree

i'm no expert on birds, but it seems to me a crash would be likely here, if not the window then something else, or someone else.

[arcane1]

3. WTF did these idiots EXPECT???

[The Blue Flower]

4. There are laws regarding the treament of bald eagles

I hope there are charges and fines for doing such a stupid stunt.

[Fuddnik]

5. Well, what do you expect from a place that graduated Michelle Bachmann.

At Bob Jones U. the would have eaten it.

[David__77]

6. Sadly, a propos this week.

I feel bad for the poor bird.

[olddots]

7. they should change the school back to it's old name

Anal Robert's School for the Humanly Challenged Turd Maggots Inc.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

8. Good lord.

The stupid; it burns, the irony; it burns.

Hope its not secretly buried in the backyard now.

[hatrack]

9. Fucking knuckle-dragging asscarrots

What the fuck is WRONG with people, treating an animal like that?

Jesus Christ.

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

10. I'd wanna get outta this place too!!

The average IQ would've taken a nosedive if the eagle had got out!!!!

Note; an animal was hurt in the filming of this video!!!

[Politicalboi]

11. I can't watch the video for my own reasons

But I thought the eagle hit the window from the outside. What a bunch of dumb asses bringing it indoors and expecting it to fly where you want it too. Birds fly to the light DUH! I hope the bird at least got a chance to shit on one of those dumb asses.

[ChazInAz]

13. My thought, too.

Having been on the receiving end of an eagle crap, and barely survived to tell the tale, I think it would be appropriate.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. These people really believe the bird knows what "USA!" means.

[YOHABLO]

14. "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." S.Lewis

[blackspade]

15. What asshole thought it was a good idea to release the bird inside!?

It was probably trying to figure out a way to get away from these screaming nutjobs.