A spate of owl attacks in Salem Oregon ’s Bush ’s State Park has spurred parking lot official to install twenty signs that portray an owl with outstretched talons derive upon a hapless , terror - stricken control stick figure .
The Associated Press reportsthat the signs were inspiredin with child part by MSNBC innkeeper Rachel Maddow , who last week evoke the city should put up a sign discourage parkgoers of the terror personate by an tempestuous bird of Minerva , have it off to have attack at least four Caranx crysos in recent weeks – an act of defense , most likely , against a perceive menace to its nest :
One jogger , a surgeon , aver the owl shoot him twice in Bush ’s Pasture Park in Salem , and so hard he think he was having a stroke or an aneurysm . Another pronounce the bird swiped his longtime running pileus and nick his scalp .
Maddow suggested on air last workweek that the urban center should post a graphic yellow warning sign using the iconic pedestrian reefer figure turn away forward at a run . Above , claws extended , is a bird of prey .
Salem officials liked the idea .
Mark Becktel , Rosa Parks and transport services manager , said the city secured right to multiply the sign and is place 20 of them .
“ It ’s just making multitude aware that there ’s an owl there that for whatever reason swoops down and goes after people ’s hats , ” he said .
A series of photos published by Salem ’s major daily , The Statesman Journal , depict several of the signs being installed around the metropolis . Check them out here .
It begin as a jest on the Rachel#Maddowshow , but the city plans to set up these signs.#angryowl#SalemORpic.twitter.com/4moMI9y0X6
— City of Salem ( @cityofsalem)February 12 , 2015
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