What then does this mean for our professional surfers?
Joe is a very talented racing pigeon from the United States who became confused during a race in Oregon, turned right and flew, or maybe hitched a ride on a cargo ship, for an extraordinary 8000 miles (13000 kilometers) to Melbourne, Australia.
Kevin Celli-Bird, a resident of the country’s cultural capital, found the exhausted bird in his backyard on Dec. 26th. “It rocked up at our place on Boxing Day. I’ve got a fountain in the backyard and it was having a drink and a wash. He was pretty emaciated so I crushed up a dry biscuit and left it out there for him,” he told the Associated Press.
“Next day, he rocked back up at our water feature, so I wandered out to have a look at him because he was fairly weak and he didn’t seem that afraid of me and I saw he had a blue band on his leg. Obviously he belongs to someone, so I managed to catch him.”
The Oklahoma-based American Racing Pigeon Union has confirmed that Joe was registered to an owner in Montgomery, Alabama.
Celli-Bird let the heroic bird go, infuriating the “the notoriously strict” Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service who are now seeking to re-capture and execute Joe for flaunting protocols.
The service released a statement reading, “The bird is not permitted to remain in Australia” because it “could compromise Australia’s food security and our wild bird populations. It poses a direct biosecurity risk to Australian bird life and our poultry industry.”
They are currently hunting the gallant creature.
All to say, our professional surfers are set to re-start the severely bungled 2020/21 World Surf League Championship Tour at Bells Beach, very near Melbourne, in three short months. Word coming out of Australia is that there will be no quarantine exceptions made for those coming into the country. They will each have to quarantine in hotel rooms for two weeks, without leaving, and after their two weeks will only be able to surf in their heats, not being allowed to play in the ocean otherwise.
Much time in hotel rooms.
Notoriously strict.
Do you think our professional surfers will be able to abide by the rules?
Do you think they will be executed if they do not?
How will World Surf League CEO Erik Logan screw it all up this time?
A racing pigeon was sold at auction for $1.9 million this past November, which means they are very much more valuable than our professional surfers.
Guillotine for the top 20?
CEO Erik Logan helping to hold them in place before the blade drops?
Blood gushing down Hosier Lane?
More as the story develops.
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I’d say they turn my stomach sometimes.
That’s funny. Ran my first and last marathon last year. I loved the race but those training runs were brutal. Couldn’t imagine waking up hung over and putting that work in.
Sorry bout the long winded story muley,I just deleted it.
I was in deep with Little Creatures Coconut Stout.
I have to stick to the bike these days,Im banged up.
Don’t be, I enjoyed it. Stay active friend, it’s the only thing keeping us alive!
Yeah. It’s biking instead of running these days.
Check out a CrossFit gym if you have one near by. Changed my life for the better.
Thanks Mule.
I had a few in me when I wrote that stuff and deleted it the next day embarrassed, I hope I included my point that they were Idahoians.
Anywhoo…I mix it up each day with swimming, weights, circuits, etc.
Played ice hockey for over 35 years,Ive always been active.
No disrespect, but I read people who do crossfit are prone to injury due to bad form with weights.
I’m a big Youtube guy, I actually just watched the lastest Athlene X before I got here.
As I’m older now, lots of stuff includes stability and incorporating working on small muscles.
The pounding from running is just too much on my joints these days,I pay too much.
I wanted Tulsi too. In more ways than one.
Stinks?
Breaking news care of 3aw
He is an Aussie
Was a scam
The truth poses more danger to the left than anything.
Project Veritas has been doing some great work. https://www.projectveritas….
In six days.
They’ve been here all along, hiding. Trump gave them a license to act on all their dangerous incorrect ideas.
Do you have all kinds of racist Bogans with AR 15’s thinking the election was stolen when they lose?
I suppose the middle path would be the way but we don’t have that choice in the US.
It’s one or the other and I need health care
Australia would suck if it was run by US Republicans
Maybe Trump can join his buddy Rupert Murdoch in Australia and run for office. Have fun.
I think you would vote democrat if you lived in the USA.
You are right. It’s bizarre that that so many low income people support the Republican Party .
It’s like Stockholm syndrome or like a wife that won’t leave a husband that is beating her.
Trump played them all by having all the anti abortion activists at the rose garden. Trump dosn’t give a shit about religion. The uneducated white people get tricked to vote against their own best interests time and time again.
The fact that 50% of the population has below a 100 IQ and very little education plays a huge part in their ability to be manipulated
They just won everything
Which side wants health care for all?
Which side wants a living wage for all?
Which side wants to protect the environment from industrial pollution?
Which side wants more funding for education and to make college affordable for all?
Which side wants to reform the judicial system?
Which side has fought against those things?
Both sides are the same is a simple minded deflection
I’m not part of the right or left either I’m not even that political. What I am is a person that cares about our country and Trump is a dangerous person that made every decision based on what would help himself, not the country.
He was supposed to be a public servant. I want politicians to shut up and do their jobs and stay out of my life as much as possible, not tweeting every day. It was all about him.
The amount of grief and trouble and time wasting that he has put our country through over the last four years is incalculable. All for selfish reasons.
Making up lies saying the election was stolen hasn’t worked out too well. You lost the Senate because of it. It’s not a winning platform. You can keep acting like the victim saying everybody is out to get you. They want to ban Christmas and stop prayer in schools etc.
Tech companies are taking way our free speech. Hey I have an idea don’t incite violence. Nobody is taking away your free speech but thats all I hear about now.
I’m a victim.
We all have seen that Simpson’s episode with the frogs, and we know The Simpson’s are always right. So better kill that pigeon.
Not PIG Manuel,
PIGEON!
Aussies not fucking around with Covid at all.