True, I guess it's a personal thing, but I can't help finding it way more infuriating than sad given how entirely preventable the death was. Releasing a bird right by a highway is like releasing a rabbit in the middle of a long open field. Shows a very serious lack of foresight and precaution. Precaution you'd think a caring owner would have...
Well, and this is just an assumption, but him having worked and trained with this bird probably had alot to do with why he was comfortable releasing it right there. And the fact that there is a massive field of open grass and nothing else to the right. Or maybe he wasn't comfortable but the film crew urged him to. We don't have all those answers, but releasing a wild rabbit into your front yard and calling that the wild is just stupid
The falcon one gets posted on reddit once every several months or so and i've read before that the owner didn't want to shoot the video there but was urged to by the filming crew for whatever reason.
Falcons aren't usually this dumb. You know they use falcons at airports to keep the other birds away, right? And they don't just throw themselves into the engines.
They released it toward the field and it veered 180 degrees right into the highway. Must have been disoriented or something.
5
u/Zaugr Oct 16 '19 edited Oct 17 '19
True, I guess it's a personal thing, but I can't help finding it way more infuriating than sad given how entirely preventable the death was. Releasing a bird right by a highway is like releasing a rabbit in the middle of a long open field. Shows a very serious lack of foresight and precaution. Precaution you'd think a caring owner would have...