Pink Flamingo sighting!

**snapdragen** · 10-20-2006, 08:15 PM

Squashed or still strutting?

**yellow** · 10-20-2006, 08:47 PM

I just can't imagine what a squashed one looks like. Live...yeah, whatever. But SQUASHED??? Those birds are huge!

**Trekhawk** · 10-21-2006, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by yellow

I just can't imagine what a squashed one looks like. Live...yeah, whatever. But SQUASHED??? Those birds are huge!

LOL - yep I guess it had been hit by a car. Imagine the poor driver, not the sort of thing you expect to hit.

**liberty** · 10-21-2006, 06:44 PM

Have you guys heard of the Pink Flamingo Fundraiser? Ten years ago I was working at a church who did this fundraiser. Here's the deal: The youth group was trying to raise money for something. They gave the congregation a chance to buy Pink Flamingo Insurance, and after the cut-off date all people who hadn't purchased the insurance would face the risk of a plastic pink flamingo showing up on their front lawn. The flamingo could not be removed until a fee/bribe had been paid. They made a ton off this! Helps if people are highly sensitive to having the perfect yard.

When I saw the title for this thread, I thought for sure someone was bringing the Pink Flamingo Insurance to TE...

**Geonz** · 10-22-2006, 08:18 PM

I read in a link from somebody's blog today that a major manufacturer of pink flamingo lawn ornaments has stopped making them and is shutting down the business. It was a US company; and here I assumed they were Chinese sweatshop specials!!! (Somehow, I just don't think there will ever be a shortage, and I just can't quite see them becoming collector's items. Who knows, though?)
When I googled "pink flamingo" and clicked "news" ... it seems to be a well-covered story...

**chickwhorips** · 10-23-2006, 11:22 AM

bummer. now where am i going to get the pink flamingos to put all over a co-workers lawn?

**Lise** · 10-23-2006, 12:28 PM

A squashed peacock.

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stunned silence

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shaking head.

**SadieKate** · 10-23-2006, 01:41 PM

My SIL had their lawn "flocked" for his birthday. Apparently, Clearwater, FL (and maybe other towns) has a company who will put the appropriate number of plastic flamingos on your lawn during the night and then pick them up a day later.

Lisa, the central valley of CA seems to be very hospitable to peacocks but they can be mighty loud as neighbors.

**snapdragen** · 10-23-2006, 03:14 PM

Yup there is a bay area company that will to flockings. Or herds if you prefer cows.....

**jobob** · 12-02-2006, 03:33 PM

Lee & I thought we saw the flamingo a couple of times over the past month, in the same cove where we saw him the first time, but at a distance so we weren't positive.

Well, we were riding along the Coyote Hills again this morning, and we stopped at the overlook to that cove to pull off our armwarmers, and there he was ! He was close enough that there was no mistaking it.

I was wondering how he was doing during our recent cold snap, or whether he hitched a ride south, but he seems fine, and still as pink as all get-out.

And to top it off, there were witnesses, which proves he's not a figment of our imagination.

Since he's apparently a fixture, he deserves a name.

I shall call him Seymour.

**Trekhawk** · 12-02-2006, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by jobob

Lee & I thought we saw the flamingo a couple of times over the past month, in the same cove where we saw him the first time, but at a distance so we weren't positive.

Well, we were riding along the Coyote Hills again this morning, and we stopped at the overlook to that cove to pull off our armwarmers, and there he was ! He was close enough that there was no mistaking it.

I was wondering how he was doing during our recent cold snap, or whether he hitched a ride south, but he seems fine, and still as pink as all get-out.

And to top it off, there were witnesses, which proves he's not a figment of our imagination.

Since he's apparently a fixture, he deserves a name.

I shall call him Seymour.

Wow how very cool. I think a Flamingo sighting (or sightings should I say) might be hard to top.

**SadieKate** · 12-03-2006, 08:36 AM

Pics! Or we shall just consider you a loaded bob until them.

Write a letter to your newspaper. Tell them the name. Maybe we'll get some news footage up here ala Humphrey the Whale.

**jobob** · 12-03-2006, 08:42 AM

But I am a loaded bob ...

I'll see what I can do. Obviously you guys ain't gonna believe me till then.

<---matches Seymour

**snapdragen** · 12-03-2006, 10:17 AM

Keen an eye out for this guy too - an East African Crane

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_333165239.html

**jobob** · 12-03-2006, 01:52 PM

Too funny ! I was biking out that way yesterday.

Then again, unless he was hanging out at the Carvel Ice Cream Shop next to Chain Reaction Cycles in Los Altos, I might not have noticed him ...

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