Bet you're glad THESE don't exist any more

**Bob** · 5th January 2005, 01:15

Read this - imagine being out for a ride and having one of these swoop down on you!

**Clockwork** · 5th January 2005, 05:37

I think they do.....
they just drive Police cars now!!

**Coyote** · 5th January 2005, 08:58

You should see the Haast Eagle full scale model they have at Te Papa. They have it hanging off the ceiling and its swooping down on a moa. Looks so awesome, I wish those eagles were still around

**mini_hooks_** · 5th January 2005, 09:28

Originally Posted by alarumba

...I wish those eagles were still around...

well i dont...the moa was a very big bird and that haast eagle was big enough to pick it up...thats one big bird, altho they would look cool flying is the sky...

**Coyote** · 5th January 2005, 09:32

Originally Posted by mini_hooks_

well i dont...the moa was a very big bird and that haast eagle was big enough to pick it up...thats one big bird, altho they would look cool flying is the sky...

Imagine if you were able to tame one so you could fly on its back. That would be awesome

**Biff** · 6th January 2005, 12:58

Originally Posted by alarumba

Imagine if you were able to tame one so you could fly on its back. That would be awesome

"and the drugs don't work, they just make it worse" - The Verve

**vifferman** · 6th January 2005, 13:02

I wonder how many minutes at 220 Centigrade they'd take to cook?

Would they be better with potatoes or noodles?

**James Deuce** · 6th January 2005, 13:07

Originally Posted by vifferman

I wonder how many minutes at 220 Centigrade they'd take to cook?

Would they be better with potatoes or noodles?

Definitely a Potato bird, methinks.

**Biff** · 6th January 2005, 13:09

ok - whose gonna catch one and wring its neck then?

**vifferman** · 6th January 2005, 13:11

Originally Posted by Jim2

Definitely a Potato bird, methinks.

So would a brace of them be a Hoggley Doggley?

{insert groaning emoticon thingo here}
I don't think they'd last long if they were still around, especially if they feasted on road kill like swamp harriers. They'd take so long to take off, they'd get skittled all the time.

But didn't they only inhabitate Haaast or summat anyways?

**FROSTY:Me** · 6th January 2005, 14:09

stuff that --sparrow shit on the visor is bad enough ....
Insurance claim review..---Im sorry sir we cannot accept that you lost control of your motorcycle due to a "bird turd' covering your visor.