ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Boo hoo. 

Oops! Forklift drops wine container, smashing bottles of Australian shiraz worth $1 million

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, July 22, 5:00 AM

ADELAIDE, Australia — An unsteady forklift dropped a container full of fine Australian wine worth more than $1 million, smashing most of the bottles. The winemaker says he’s “gut-wrenched, shocked and numb” after the loss of his flagship shiraz.

Sparky Marquis of Mollydooker Wines lost a third of his Velvet Glove Shiraz production after the accident that destroyed all but one of the 462 cases bound for the United States. Each bottle of the Mollydooker wine sells for $200.

Marquis said Friday that when workers opened up the dropped container, “it was like a murder scene. There was red everywhere.”

He said the wine was fully insured.

The accident has crippled Mollydooker’s U.S. launch in September. It will also impact the wine market in Australia.

The RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) here suggests using these bird silhouettes which stick onto the windows, to prevent birds flying into them...

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
When I bought my house in Petersburg it had been vacant for many years and all the attic windows were broke out so generations of rats with wings Pigeons had made their home in the attic and the bird poop was several inches deep. It's considered toxic waste and breathing its airborne powder can give you a fatal disease. After I replaced all the windows every morning at dawn you'd hear Thud! Thud! Thud! for quite a while as they would keep flying into the glass repeatedly until they broke their necks. Every day there would be dead Pigeons on the ground under the windows. After a while they ran out of Pigeons.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Our neighbor went on vacation last month and while he was gone he had his windows replaced. So not only were they very clean, the workers didn't re-hang the curtains. He's got a picture window on front and back and you can see right through his house then. He found several of those imprints ... mostly sparrows but one obvious dove just like that owl... and a few dead birds. He's got the curtains back up now so it's safe to fly now...

owl leaves "impression" on window

 Manbird wrote: 

Ewww - thanks for that!   I just looked that up on the Urban Dictionary - the image of a scrunion mask is now indelibly printed on my ever so sensitive retinas!

 Manbird wrote: 

The next generation of slow food will be gay marriage powered by solar turbines. And we'll talk just by thinking. 

 beamends wrote: 
Or their scrunions. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Or their brains.

 Ngoziman wrote: 
Well soccer players aren't usually expected to use their hands...

 Alexandra wrote: 
I know that feeling  Hope you don't get back to find too many missed calls

Seems like the perfect forum for this...

 Butterfingers!

Left my cell phone at home today.......so I hope I'm not missing any potential employer calls!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I'm glad the kid has his philanthropic priorities right. Sheesh. 

 Manbird wrote: 
A little kid spent $8500 to buy that ring, just so he could give it back to the Fridge. But it's not really the Fridge's Super Bowl ring, it's a sample.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
That article confused me. I'm confused.

Nice Gesture, But Perry’s Super Bowl Ring Likely a Replica

Posted by Editor on 4/04/11 • Categorized as More Collecting News

Exactly why he sold it is a bit of mystery, but in 2007, William 'The Refrigerator' Perry's Super Bowl XX championship ring went on the auction block.

The size 23 monster was sold for over $27,000 by the now defunct Mastro Auctions.

Perry was back in the Chicago area over the weekend, making a personal appearance and was surprised when a young fan came up—not old enough to have been born when the '85 Bears beat the Patriots—and presented him with his Super Bowl ring.

Along with it, came this story about the kid and his parents using part of his college fund to buy the ring just so they could present it to Perry, who at times has been down on his luck.

According to the article, the purchase price was $8500.   Coincidentally or not, a salesman's sample Perry ring is listed as sold here for that same amount.

It's not likely the real deal could have been picked up for some $19,000 less three years after it was originally sold.

 bokey wrote: 

exactly.  this is a safe place.